republic-os/legislation/us/states/nc/2015e4/sb-4.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	Bi-Partisan Ethics, Elections & Court Reform.	Bi-Partisan Ethics, Elections & Court Reform.	us/states/nc	North Carolina General Assembly	2015E4	SB 4	North Carolina SB 4 (2015E4)	bill	APPOINTMENTS BOARDS COMMERCE COMMISSIONS COUNCIL OF STATE COUNTIES COURT OF APPEALS COURTS ELECTIONS ELECTIONS BOARDS ELECTIONS STATE BOARD OF ETHICS GENERAL ASSEMBLY GOVERNOR INDUSTRIAL COMN. LOBBYING LOCAL GOVERNMENT MEMBERSHIP POLITICAL ACTIVITY POLITICAL PARTIES PRESENTED PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE PUBLIC PUBLIC OFFICIALS RATIFIED REDISTRICTING SECRETARY OF STATE SPEAKER SUPREME COURT TERM LENGTHS & LIMITS CHAPTERED ETHICS COMN.	enacted	Rabon Rucho	10	34	2	2016-12-14	2016-12-16	openstates	ocd-bill/bab9ee81-e19b-4b95-8fb1-90e537fccfe5	http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2015E4&BillID=S4&votesToView=all	68737c93c7eb38a42904d9150ecd0100991561223e2723e3a9c0762ba5be3802	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-nc

North Carolina SB 4 (2015E4) — Bi-Partisan Ethics, Elections & Court Reform.

Version chain

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

1. Filed (filed) — source
2. A1: ALU-1-V-2 (committee substitute) — source
3. A1: Scanned Document (committee substitute) — source
4. Edition 1 (committee substitute) — source
5. Edition 2 (committee substitute) — source
6. Edition 3 (committee substitute) — source
7. Edition 4 (committee substitute) — source
8. Edition 5 (committee substitute) — source
9. Ratified (committee substitute) — source
10. SL 2016-125 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Motion 9 To Concur — 26–12 (pass) · upper
• Second Reading — 63–27 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Rabon — primary (person)
• Rucho — primary (person)
• Tucker — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2016-12-16 Ch. SL 2016-125 became-law
• 2016-12-16 Signed by Gov. 12/16/2016 executive-signature
• 2016-12-16 Pres. To Gov. 12/16/2016 executive-receipt
• 2016-12-16 Ratified
• 2016-12-16 Ordered Enrolled
• 2016-12-16 Concurred In H/Com Sub amendment-passage
• 2016-12-16 Placed on Today's Calendar
• 2016-12-16 Special Message Received For Concurrence in H Com Sub
• 2016-12-16 Special Message Sent To Senate
• 2016-12-16 Ordered Engrossed
• 2016-12-16 Passed 3rd Reading passage, reading-3
• 2016-12-16 Passed 2nd Reading reading-2
• 2016-12-16 Amend Adopted A1 amendment-passage
• 2016-12-16 Added to Calendar
• 2016-12-16 Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
• 2016-12-16 Reptd Fav committee-passage-favorable
• 2016-12-15 Re-ref Com On Finance referral-committee
• 2016-12-15 Reptd Fav Com Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2016-12-15 Ref to the Com on Elections, if favorable, Finance referral-committee
• 2016-12-16 Passed 1st Reading reading-1
• 2016-12-15 Special Message Received From Senate
• 2016-12-15 Special Message Sent To House
• 2016-12-15 Engrossed
• 2016-12-15 Passed 3rd Reading passage, reading-3
• 2016-12-15 Passed 2nd Reading reading-2
• 2016-12-15 Amend Adopted A1 amendment-passage
• 2016-12-15 Placed on Today's Calendar
• 2016-12-15 Com Substitute Adopted
• 2016-12-15 Reptd Fav Com Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2016-12-15 Re-ref Com On Finance referral-committee
• 2016-12-15 Reptd Fav As Amended, Unengrossed committee-passage-favorable
• 2016-12-14 Ref to Redistricting. If fav, re-ref to Finance referral-committee
• 2016-12-14 Passed 1st Reading reading-1
• 2016-12-14 Filed introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/bab9ee81-e19b-4b95-8fb1-90e537fccfe5. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).