republic-os/legislation/us/states/nc/2017/hb-659.md

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Bill	Filling Vacancies/U.S. Senate.	Filling Vacancies/U.S. Senate.	us/states/nc	North Carolina General Assembly	2017	HB 659	North Carolina HB 659 (2017)	bill	APPOINTMENTS COUNCIL OF STATE ELECTIONS GOVERNOR POLITICAL PARTIES PRESENTED PUBLIC PUBLIC OFFICIALS RATIFIED NATIONAL ELECTIONS CHAPTERED	enacted	Bert Jones Burr Saine	5	32	2	2017-04-06	2018-06-26	openstates	ocd-bill/df7b998f-bb73-4966-ad4a-77a3a1eadd2b	http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2017&BillID=H659&votesToView=all	3c45c4759e02ecea46dcd8e812378754746436e59aa981ceddae49d89617ceb9	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-nc

North Carolina HB 659 (2017) — Filling Vacancies/U.S. Senate.

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. Ratified (committee substitute) — source
5. SL 2018-102 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• M11 Concur — 71–39 (pass) · lower
• Second Reading — 35–9 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Bert Jones — primary (person)
• Burr — primary (person)
• Saine — primary (person)
• Blackwell — cosponsor (person)
• Boswell — cosponsor (person)
• Faircloth — cosponsor (person)
• K. Hall — cosponsor (person)
• Shepard — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-06-26 Ch. SL 2018-102 became-law
• 2018-06-26 Became Law W/o Signature became-law
• 2018-06-15 Pres. To Gov. 6/15/2018 executive-receipt
• 2018-06-14 Ratified
• 2018-06-13 Ordered Enrolled
• 2018-06-13 Concurred In S Com Sub amendment-passage
• 2018-06-13 Added to Calendar
• 2018-06-12 Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
• 2018-06-12 Special Message Received For Concurrence in S Com Sub
• 2018-06-12 Special Message Sent To House
• 2018-06-12 Passed 3rd Reading passage, reading-3
• 2018-06-12 Passed 2nd Reading reading-2
• 2018-06-12 Placed on Today's Calendar
• 2018-06-12 Reptd Fav committee-passage-favorable
• 2018-06-12 Re-ref Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate referral-committee
• 2018-06-12 Com Substitute Adopted
• 2018-06-12 Reptd Fav Com Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2018-06-11 Re-ref to Select Committee on Elections. If fav, re-ref to Rules and Operations of the Senate referral-committee
• 2018-06-11 Withdrawn From Com
• 2017-04-27 Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate referral-committee
• 2017-04-27 Passed 1st Reading reading-1
• 2017-04-27 Regular Message Received From House
• 2017-04-27 Regular Message Sent To Senate
• 2017-04-26 Passed 3rd Reading passage, reading-3
• 2017-04-26 Passed 2nd Reading reading-2
• 2017-04-26 Amend Failed A1 amendment-failure
• 2017-04-26 Added to Calendar
• 2017-04-26 Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
• 2017-04-26 Reptd Fav committee-passage-favorable
• 2017-04-11 Ref To Com On Elections and Ethics Law referral-committee
• 2017-04-11 Passed 1st Reading reading-1
• 2017-04-06 Filed introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/df7b998f-bb73-4966-ad4a-77a3a1eadd2b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).