republic-os/legislation/us/states/nc/2017/sb-656.md

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Bill	Electoral Freedom Act of 2017.	Electoral Freedom Act of 2017.	us/states/nc	North Carolina General Assembly	2017	SB 656	North Carolina SB 656 (2017)	bill	BOARDS COURTS DEFINITIONS ELECTIONS ELECTIONS STATE BOARD OF JUDGES POLITICAL PARTIES PRESENTED PUBLIC RATIFIED VETOED CHAPTERED VETO OVERRIDDEN PRIMARIES BALLOT ISSUES	enacted		7	61	2	2017-04-04	2017-10-17	openstates	ocd-bill/4f6b4c4f-38ad-41d7-93df-d9e4eacc3d65	http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2017&BillID=S656&votesToView=all	53d80f3517f2ad361e05de29158d8cfd4ab86461a4a6cb75e33f31a1a177bfdf	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-nc

North Carolina SB 656 (2017) — Electoral Freedom Act of 2017.

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 2017-214 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Motion 11 Veto Override — 26–15 (pass) · upper
• Veto Override — 72–40 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Hise — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-10-17 Ch. SL 2017-214 became-law
• 2017-10-17 Veto Overridden veto-override-passage
• 2017-10-16 Placed On Cal For 10/17/2017
• 2017-10-16 Veto Received From Senate
• 2017-10-16 Veto Overridden veto-override-passage
• 2017-10-16 Placed on Today's Calendar
• 2017-10-16 Withdrawn From Com
• 2017-10-12 Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate referral-committee
• 2017-10-09 Vetoed 10/09/2017 executive-veto
• 2017-10-05 Pres. To Gov. 10/5/2017 executive-receipt
• 2017-10-05 Ratified
• 2017-10-05 Ordered Enrolled
• 2017-10-05 Conf Report Adopted
• 2017-10-05 Conf Report #2 Adopted
• 2017-10-05 Placed on Today's Calendar
• 2017-10-05 Conf Com Reported
• 2017-10-05 Added to Calendar
• 2017-10-05 Conf Com Reported
• 2017-10-05 Conf Rpt Withdrawn
• 2017-10-05 Conf Rept Withdrawn
• 2017-10-04 Placed On Cal For 10/05/2017
• 2017-10-04 Cal Pursuant Rule 44(d)
• 2017-10-04 Reptd Fav For Adoption committee-passage-favorable
• 2017-10-04 Re-ref Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House referral-committee
• 2017-10-04 Conf Com Reported
• 2017-10-04 Placed On Cal For 10/05/2017
• 2017-10-04 Conf Com Reported
• 2017-06-29 Conf Com Appointed
• 2017-06-29 Conf Com Appointed
• 2017-06-29 Failed Concur In H Com Sub
• 2017-06-29 Placed on Today's Calendar
• 2017-06-29 Special Message Received For Concurrence in H Com Sub
• 2017-06-28 Special Message Sent To Senate
• 2017-06-28 Passed 3rd Reading passage, reading-3
• 2017-06-28 Passed 2nd Reading reading-2
• 2017-06-28 Added to Calendar
• 2017-06-28 Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
• 2017-06-28 Reptd Fav Com Sub 2 committee-passage-favorable
• 2017-06-26 Re-ref Com On Elections and Ethics Law referral-committee
• 2017-06-26 Withdrawn From Cal
• 2017-06-22 Placed On Cal For 06/26/2017
• 2017-06-21 Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
• 2017-06-21 Reptd Fav Com Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2017-05-08 Re-ref Com On Elections and Ethics Law referral-committee
• 2017-05-08 Withdrawn From Com
• 2017-04-27 Ref To Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House referral-committee
• 2017-04-27 Passed 1st Reading reading-1
• 2017-04-27 Regular Message Received From Senate
• 2017-04-27 Regular Message Sent To House
• 2017-04-26 Passed 3rd Reading passage, reading-3
• 2017-04-26 Passed 2nd Reading reading-2
• 2017-04-26 Placed on Today's Supplemental Calendar
• 2017-04-26 Reptd Fav committee-passage-favorable
• 2017-04-25 Re-ref Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate referral-committee
• 2017-04-25 Com Substitute Adopted
• 2017-04-25 Reptd Fav Com Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2017-04-21 Re-ref to Select Committee on Elections. If fav, re-ref to Rules and Operations of the Senate referral-committee
• 2017-04-21 Withdrawn From Com
• 2017-04-05 Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate referral-committee
• 2017-04-05 Passed 1st Reading reading-1
• 2017-04-04 Filed introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/4f6b4c4f-38ad-41d7-93df-d9e4eacc3d65. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).