republic-os/legislation/us/states/nc/2011/sb-479.md

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type	title	description	jurisdiction	legislature	session	identifier	citation	classification	subjects	status	primary_sponsors	version_count	action_count	vote_count	first_action	last_action	source	source_identifier	source_url	source_hash	vintage	source_snapshot	retrieved_at	confidence	tags
Bill	Testing in the Public Schools.	Testing in the Public Schools.	us/states/nc	North Carolina General Assembly	2011	SB 479	North Carolina SB 479 (2011)	bill	BOARDS EDUCATION EDUCATION STATE BOARD OF EDUCATIONAL TESTING PILOT PROGRAMS PRESENTED PUBLIC RATIFIED REPORTS SECONDARY EDUCATION SESSION LAWS TESTING CHAPTERED SEN. TILLMAN SEN. PRESTON SEN. SOUCEK	enacted	Preston Tillman	7	23	2	2011-03-31	2011-06-23	openstates	ocd-bill/e156b908-ff39-4235-8396-71bd1543021f	http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2011&BillID=S479&votesToView=all	ef542311c075549ca9a22b3bc2ce2edbd18dead4c088c1eec6d82ff5ebd60e05	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-nc

North Carolina SB 479 (2011) — Testing in the Public Schools.

Version chain

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

1. Filed (filed) — source
2. A1: ATL-3-V-4 (committee substitute) — source
3. Edition 1 (committee substitute) — source
4. Edition 2 (committee substitute) — source
5. Edition 3 (committee substitute) — source
6. Ratified (committee substitute) — source
7. SL2011-280 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Motion 9\To Concur — 43–0 (pass) · upper
• Second Reading — 103–1 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Preston — primary (person)
• Tillman — primary (person)
• Blake — cosponsor (person)
• Brock — cosponsor (person)
• Brown — cosponsor (person)
• Daniel — cosponsor (person)
• Forrester — cosponsor (person)
• Gunn — cosponsor (person)
• Hise — cosponsor (person)
• Hunt — cosponsor (person)
• Jones — cosponsor (person)
• Meredith — cosponsor (person)
• Pate — cosponsor (person)
• Rabon — cosponsor (person)
• Rucho — cosponsor (person)
• Soucek — cosponsor (person)
• Stein — cosponsor (person)
• Stevens — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2011-06-23 Ch. SL 2011-280 became-law
• 2011-06-23 Signed By Gov. 6/23/2011 executive-signature
• 2011-06-20 Pres. To Gov. 6/20/2011 executive-receipt
• 2011-06-18 Ratified
• 2011-06-17 Concurred In H/com Sub amendment-passage
• 2011-06-17 Placed On Cal For 6/17/2011
• 2011-06-17 Rec To Concur H Com Sub
• 2011-06-17 Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading passage, reading-2, reading-3
• 2011-06-16 Placed On Cal For 6/16/2011
• 2011-06-16 Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
• 2011-06-16 Reptd Fav Com Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-05-02 Ref To Com On Education referral-committee
• 2011-05-02 Passed 1st Reading reading-1
• 2011-04-27 Engrossed
• 2011-04-27 Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading passage, reading-2, reading-3
• 2011-04-27 Amend Adopted 1 amendment-passage
• 2011-04-26 Placed On Cal For 4/27/2011
• 2011-04-26 Withdrawn From Com
• 2011-04-14 Re-ref Com On Appropriations/Base Budget referral-committee
• 2011-04-14 Reptd Fav committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-04-04 Ref to Education/Higher Education. If fav, re-ref to Appropriations/Base Budget referral-committee
• 2011-04-04 Passed 1st Reading reading-1
• 2011-03-31 Filed introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e156b908-ff39-4235-8396-71bd1543021f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).