republic-os/legislation/us/states/nc/2019/sb-556.md

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Bill	GSC People First Language 2019.	GSC People First Language 2019.	us/states/nc	North Carolina General Assembly	2019	SB 556	North Carolina SB 556 (2019)	bill	APPOINTMENTS COMMISSIONS DEFINITIONS DISABLED PERSONS GENERAL STATUTES GENERAL STATUTES COMN. HEALTH SERVICES HOSPITALS INCOMPETENTS LANGUAGES MEMBERSHIP MENTAL HEALTH MHDDSAS COMN. PRESENTED PROPERTY PSYCHIATRY PUBLIC RATIFIED SUBSTANCE ABUSE CHAPTERED DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES PROPERTY-STATE GOVERNMENT SURPLUS PROPERTY	enacted	Edwards Hise	7	33	2	2019-04-02	2019-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/642e93a5-de99-43a4-98a9-abcb0e8d169d	http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2019&BillID=S556&votesToView=all	f6936b695b501609745bfc8c01de792c7dbbe0a5d06666d47928863cd8fd842e	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-nc

North Carolina SB 556 (2019) — GSC People First Language 2019.

Version chain

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

1. Filed (filed) — source
2. A1: AMN-5-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. SL 2019-76 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Motion 9 To Concur — 44–0 (pass) · upper
• A1 Davis Second Reading — 108–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Edwards — primary (person)
• Hise — primary (person)
• Marcus — cosponsor (person)
• Perry — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-07-01 Ch. SL 2019-76 became-law
• 2019-07-01 Signed by Gov. 7/1/2019 executive-signature
• 2019-06-27 Pres. To Gov. 6/27/2019 executive-receipt
• 2019-06-26 Ratified
• 2019-06-25 Ordered Enrolled
• 2019-06-25 Concurred In H Com Sub amendment-passage
• 2019-06-24 Regular Message Received For Concurrence in H Com Sub
• 2019-06-21 Regular Message Sent To Senate
• 2019-06-20 Ordered Engrossed
• 2019-06-20 Passed 3rd Reading passage, reading-3
• 2019-06-20 Passed 2nd Reading reading-2
• 2019-06-20 Amend Adopted A1 amendment-passage
• 2019-06-17 Placed On Cal For 06/20/2019
• 2019-06-17 Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
• 2019-06-17 Reptd Fav Com Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-06-12 Re-ref Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House referral-committee
• 2019-06-12 Reptd Fav committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-05-30 Re-ref to the Com on Judiciary, if favorable, Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House referral-committee
• 2019-05-30 Withdrawn From Com
• 2019-05-07 Ref To Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House referral-committee
• 2019-05-07 Passed 1st Reading reading-1
• 2019-05-06 Regular Message Received From Senate
• 2019-05-06 Regular Message Sent To House
• 2019-05-02 Passed 3rd Reading passage, reading-3
• 2019-05-02 Passed 2nd Reading reading-2
• 2019-05-01 Reptd Fav committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-04-30 Re-ref Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate referral-committee
• 2019-04-30 Reptd Fav committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-04-04 Re-ref to Judiciary. If fav, re-ref to Rules and Operations of the Senate referral-committee
• 2019-04-04 Withdrawn From Com
• 2019-04-03 Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate referral-committee
• 2019-04-03 Passed 1st Reading reading-1
• 2019-04-02 Filed introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/642e93a5-de99-43a4-98a9-abcb0e8d169d. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).