---
type: "Bill"
title: "Vacancies/Rowland and Mayor's Term/Red Springs."
description: "Vacancies/Rowland and Mayor's Term/Red Springs."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 125"
citation: "North Carolina SB 125 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CHAPTERED", "CHARTERS", "COUNTIES", "LOCAL", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "MAYORS", "MUNICIPALITIES", "PUBLIC OFFICIALS", "RATIFIED", "RED SPRINGS", "ROBESON COUNTY", "ROWLAND", "SESSION LAWS", "TERM LENGTHS & LIMITS", "TITLE CHANGE", "VACANCIES"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 5
action_count: 30
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2021-02-23"
last_action: "2021-06-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9f250561-01fa-477c-9fb5-86a93b335483"
source_url: "https://www.ncleg.gov/BillLookUp/2021/S125"
source_hash: "3cf13974c01d4e7bd717e65f091d4ee1b879c5462e1a0c66d0101129ed653b4c"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-nc"]
---

# North Carolina SB 125 (2021) — Vacancies/Rowland and Mayor's Term/Red Springs.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Filed** (filed) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2021/Bills/Senate/PDF/S125v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2021/Bills/Senate/PDF/S125v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2021/Bills/Senate/PDF/S125v2.pdf)
4. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2021/Bills/Senate/PDF/S125v3.pdf)
5. **SL 2021-40** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2021/Bills/Senate/PDF/S125v4.pdf)

## Votes

- Motion 9 To Concur — **50–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Britt — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2021-06-16** Ch. SL 2021-40 `became-law`
- **2021-06-16** Ratified
- **2021-06-15** Ordered Enrolled
- **2021-06-15** Concurred In H Com Sub `amendment-passage`
- **2021-06-14** Placed On Cal For 06/15/2021
- **2021-06-14** Regular Message Received For Concurrence in H Com Sub
- **2021-06-10** Regular Message Sent To Senate
- **2021-06-09** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-06-09** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2021-06-09** Added to Calendar
- **2021-06-09** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2021-06-09** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-06-09** Re-ref Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2021-06-09** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-06-08** Re-ref to the Com on Election Law and Campaign Finance Reform, if favorable, Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2021-06-08** Withdrawn From Com
- **2021-03-10** Ref To Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-10** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2021-03-09** Regular Message Received From Senate
- **2021-03-09** Regular Message Sent To House
- **2021-03-08** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-08** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2021-03-04** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-02** Re-ref Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-02** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-02-24** Re-ref to Redistricting and Elections. If fav, re-ref to Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-24** Withdrawn From Com
- **2021-02-24** Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-24** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2021-02-23** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9f250561-01fa-477c-9fb5-86a93b335483`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).