---
type: "Bill"
title: "Union County School Funding."
description: "Union County School Funding."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2015"
identifier: "SB 881"
citation: "North Carolina SB 881 (2015)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["BOARDS", "BUDGETING", "COUNTIES", "COUNTY COMMISSIONERS", "COURTS", "EDUCATION", "EDUCATION BOARDS", "ELEMENTARY EDUCATION", "FUNDING", "KINDERGARTEN", "LOCAL", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "MORATORIUMS", "RATIFIED", "SECONDARY EDUCATION", "UNION COUNTY", "CHAPTERED", "CIVIL ACTIONS"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 4
action_count: 27
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2016-05-18"
last_action: "2016-06-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/17dad0ff-de83-4da0-a1b3-f377edb38eb7"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2015&BillID=S881&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "cddf3c5bce1c8bf519fdf02e8ea892e3cd51a846a0f4606492b6248c804fb38c"
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 881 (2015) — Union County School Funding.

## Version chain

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

1. **Filed** (filed) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2015/Bills/Senate/PDF/S881v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2015/Bills/Senate/PDF/S881v1.pdf)
3. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2015/Bills/Senate/PDF/S881v2.pdf)
4. **SL 2016-18** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2015/Bills/Senate/PDF/S881v3.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **81–34** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **79–35** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Tucker — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2016-06-20** Ch. SL 2016-18 `became-law`
- **2016-06-20** Ratified
- **2016-06-16** Ordered Enrolled
- **2016-06-16** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2016-06-16** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2016-06-15** Placed On Cal For 06/16/2016
- **2016-06-15** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2016-06-15** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2016-06-14** Re-ref Com On Local Government `referral-committee`
- **2016-06-14** Withdrawn From Com
- **2016-06-09** Re-ref Com On Education - K-12 `referral-committee`
- **2016-06-09** Withdrawn From Com
- **2016-06-08** Ref to the Com on Local Government, if favorable, Education - K-12 `referral-committee`
- **2016-06-08** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2016-06-07** Special Message Received From Senate
- **2016-06-07** Special Message Sent To House
- **2016-06-07** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2016-06-07** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2016-06-06** Placed On Cal For 06/07/2016
- **2016-06-06** Withdrawn From Cal
- **2016-06-02** Placed On Cal For 06/06/2016
- **2016-06-02** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2016-05-24** Re-ref Com On State and Local Government `referral-committee`
- **2016-05-24** Withdrawn From Com
- **2016-05-19** Ref To Com On Education/Higher Education `referral-committee`
- **2016-05-19** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2016-05-18** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/17dad0ff-de83-4da0-a1b3-f377edb38eb7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).