---
type: "Bill"
title: "Various Education Changes."
description: "Various Education Changes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 695"
citation: "North Carolina SB 695 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ACCOUNTING", "BOARDS", "CHAPTERED", "CHARTER SCHOOLS", "DEFINITIONS", "EDUCATION", "EDUCATION", "EDUCATION ADMINISTRATION", "EDUCATION BOARDS", "ELEMENTARY EDUCATION", "EMPLOYMENT", "HEALTH SERVICES", "KINDERGARTEN", "LICENSING & CERTIFICATION", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "OCCUPATIONS", "PERSONNEL", "PRESENTED", "PRINCIPALS", "PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION", "PUBLIC", "PUBLIC HEALTH", "RATIFIED", "SALARIES & BENEFITS", "SECONDARY EDUCATION", "SESSION LAWS", "STATE BOARD OF"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jarvis", "Lee"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 31
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-04-07"
last_action: "2021-10-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/28b28633-930b-450e-b191-c612d017a250"
source_url: "https://www.ncleg.gov/BillLookUp/2021/S695"
source_hash: "ef3fc3b38dfa97b128ee0f8bde158fd5ee980bdd8efa0e3eb24f227e5b9d7e7e"
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 695 (2021) — Various Education Changes.

## 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/S695v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2021/Bills/Senate/PDF/S695v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2021/Bills/Senate/PDF/S695v2.pdf)
4. **Edition 3** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2021/Bills/Senate/PDF/S695v3.pdf)
5. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2021/Bills/Senate/PDF/S695v4.pdf)
6. **SL 2021-170** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2021/Bills/Senate/PDF/S695v5.pdf)

## Votes

- Motion 9 To Concur — **49–0** (pass) · upper
- Second Reading — **92–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Jarvis — primary (person)
- Lee — primary (person)
- Ballard — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-10-15** Ch. SL 2021-170 `became-law`
- **2021-10-15** Signed by Gov. 10/15/2021 `executive-signature`
- **2021-10-08** Pres. To Gov. 10/8/2021 `executive-receipt`
- **2021-10-07** Ratified
- **2021-10-06** Ordered Enrolled
- **2021-10-06** Concurred In H Com Sub `amendment-passage`
- **2021-10-04** Placed On Cal For 10/06/2021
- **2021-10-04** Regular Message Received For Concurrence in H Com Sub
- **2021-09-30** Regular Message Sent To Senate
- **2021-09-29** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-09-29** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2021-09-29** Amend Failed A1 `amendment-failure`
- **2021-09-28** Placed On Cal For 09/29/2021
- **2021-09-28** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2021-09-28** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-05-12** Ref To Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2021-05-12** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2021-05-11** Regular Message Received From Senate
- **2021-05-11** Regular Message Sent To House
- **2021-05-10** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-05-10** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2021-05-06** Placed On Cal For 05/10/2021
- **2021-05-06** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-05-05** Re-ref Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2021-05-05** Com Substitute Adopted
- **2021-05-05** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-14** Re-ref to Education/Higher Education. If fav, re-ref to Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-14** Withdrawn From Com
- **2021-04-08** Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-08** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2021-04-07** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/28b28633-930b-450e-b191-c612d017a250`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).