---
type: "Bill"
title: "Highway Storm Recovery Act."
description: "Highway Storm Recovery Act."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 605"
citation: "North Carolina SB 605 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["APPROPRIATIONS", "BUDGETING", "DISASTERS & EMERGENCIES", "EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT", "EMERGENCY SERVICES", "INFRASTRUCTURE", "PRESENTED", "PUBLIC", "RATIFIED", "REPORTS", "ROADS & HIGHWAYS", "SESSION LAWS", "TITLE CHANGE", "TRANSPORTATION", "TRANSPORTATION DEPT.", "CHAPTERED"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Harrington", "Rabon"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 34
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-04-03"
last_action: "2019-05-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/193f5665-f100-4be3-87d6-01833d61c1f1"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2019&BillID=S605&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "35743bb275973461d242456e56700aa52bd596400a26b834bf2e49c694369ac7"
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 605 (2019) — Highway Storm Recovery Act.

## 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/2019/Bills/Senate/PDF/S605v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2019/Bills/Senate/PDF/S605v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2019/Bills/Senate/PDF/S605v2.pdf)
4. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2019/Bills/Senate/PDF/S605v3.pdf)
5. **SL 2019-15** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2019/Bills/Senate/PDF/S605v4.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **48–0** (pass) · upper
- Second Reading — **99–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Harrington — primary (person)
- Rabon — primary (person)
- Britt — cosponsor (person)
- J. Davis — cosponsor (person)
- Steinburg — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-05-16** Ch. SL 2019-15 `became-law`
- **2019-05-16** Signed by Gov. 5/16/2019 `executive-signature`
- **2019-05-15** Pres. To Gov. 5/15/2019 `executive-receipt`
- **2019-05-15** Ratified
- **2019-05-15** Ordered Enrolled
- **2019-05-15** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-05-15** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2019-05-15** Added to Calendar
- **2019-05-15** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2019-05-15** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-05-13** Re-ref Com On Appropriations, Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-13** Withdrawn From Cal
- **2019-05-07** Placed On Cal For 05/15/2019
- **2019-05-07** Withdrawn From Cal
- **2019-05-06** Placed On Cal For 05/07/2019
- **2019-05-06** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2019-05-06** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-05-01** Ref To Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-01** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2019-04-30** Regular Message Received From Senate
- **2019-04-30** Regular Message Sent To House
- **2019-04-29** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-04-29** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2019-04-18** Placed On Cal For 04/29/2019
- **2019-04-18** Withdrawn From Cal
- **2019-04-17** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-17** Re-ref Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-17** Com Substitute Adopted
- **2019-04-17** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-08** Re-ref to Appropriations/Base Budget. If fav, re-ref to Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-08** Withdrawn From Com
- **2019-04-04** Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-04** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2019-04-03** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/193f5665-f100-4be3-87d6-01833d61c1f1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).