republic-os/legislation/us/states/nc/2003/sb-421.md

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Bill	Amend Child Welfare Laws.-AB	Amend Child Welfare Laws.-AB	us/states/nc	North Carolina General Assembly	2003	SB 421	North Carolina SB 421 (2003)	bill	CHILD ABUSE CHILD CUSTODY COUNTIES COURTS CRIMES DATA SYSTEMS DEATH & DYING DHHS FOSTER CARE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY LOCAL GOVERNMENT MINORS PRESENTED PUBLIC RATIFIED SOCIAL SERVICES SOCIAL SERVICES DEPTS. SEN. METCALF SEN. RAND SEN. THOMAS RECORDS CHAPTERED	enacted		7	21	2	2003-03-13	2003-07-07	openstates	ocd-bill/7582a5c1-9f7d-4389-93e8-759b7bd7a340	http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2003&BillID=S421&votesToView=all	1f49bae8f39012c57a35f6b77bbe1f230735b0e320d1b0a453bc054f27290b8c	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-nc

North Carolina SB 421 (2003) — Amend Child Welfare Laws.-AB

Version chain

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

1. Filed (filed) — source
2. Edition 1 (committee substitute) — source
3. Edition 2 (committee substitute) — source
4. Edition 3 (committee substitute) — source
5. Edition 4 (committee substitute) — source
6. Ratified (committee substitute) — source
7. SL 2003-304 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Motion 8\To Concur — 50–0 (pass) · upper
• Second Reading — 109–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Metcalf — cosponsor (person)
• Rand — cosponsor (person)
• Thomas — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2003-07-07 Ch. SL 2003-304 became-law
• 2003-07-07 Signed By Gov. 7/4/2003 executive-signature
• 2003-06-27 Pres. To Gov. 6/26/2003 executive-receipt
• 2003-06-25 Ratified
• 2003-06-24 Concurred In H/com Sub amendment-passage
• 2003-06-23 Placed On Cal For 6/24/2003
• 2003-06-23 Rec To Concur H Com Sub
• 2003-06-19 Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading passage, reading-2, reading-3
• 2003-06-19 Amend Adopted #1 amendment-passage
• 2003-06-17 Postponed To 6/19/2003
• 2003-06-11 Postponed To 6/17/2003
• 2003-06-09 Placed On Cal For 6/10/2003
• 2003-06-05 Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
• 2003-06-05 Reptd Fav Com Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2003-04-17 Ref To Com On Judiciary IV referral-committee
• 2003-04-17 Rec From Senate
• 2003-04-15 Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading passage, reading-2, reading-3
• 2003-04-14 Com Substitute Adopted
• 2003-04-14 Reptd Fav Com Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2003-03-17 Ref To Com On Judiciary II referral-committee
• 2003-03-13 Filed introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/7582a5c1-9f7d-4389-93e8-759b7bd7a340. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).