republic-os/legislation/us/states/nc/2021/hb-312.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	Qualifications for Sheriff/Expunction.	Qualifications for Sheriff/Expunction.	us/states/nc	North Carolina General Assembly	2021	HB 312	North Carolina HB 312 (2021)	bill	CHAPTERED COMMISSIONS COUNTIES CRIMINAL RECORDS EMPLOYMENT LAW ENFORCEMENT LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS LOCAL GOVERNMENT PERSONNEL PRESENTED PUBLIC PUBLIC OFFICIALS RATIFIED RECORDS SHERIFF'S TRAINING COMN. SHERIFFS	enacted	C. Smith Greene McNeill	6	32	2	2021-03-16	2021-08-16	openstates	ocd-bill/75594155-6f6d-41f3-828b-acb7abd98269	https://www.ncleg.gov/BillLookUp/2021/H312	95363b3cc192c92ee60c1494f8551e5e8073454a254e582662c53411d79ffccb	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-nc

North Carolina HB 312 (2021) — Qualifications for Sheriff/Expunction.

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. Ratified (committee substitute) — source
6. SL 2021-107 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Second Reading — 31–10 (pass) · upper
• M11 Concur — 71–39 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• C. Smith — primary (person)
• Greene — primary (person)
• McNeill — primary (person)
• Boles — cosponsor (person)
• Brisson — cosponsor (person)
• Carter — cosponsor (person)
• Cleveland — cosponsor (person)
• Goodwin — cosponsor (person)
• Kidwell — cosponsor (person)
• Miller — cosponsor (person)
• Moffitt — cosponsor (person)
• Pittman — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-08-16 Ch. SL 2021-107 became-law
• 2021-08-16 Signed by Gov. 8/16/2021 executive-signature
• 2021-08-06 Pres. To Gov. 8/6/2021 executive-receipt
• 2021-08-05 Ratified
• 2021-08-04 Ordered Enrolled
• 2021-08-04 Concurred In S Com Sub amendment-passage
• 2021-08-02 Placed On Cal For 08/04/2021
• 2021-07-26 Cal Pursuant 36(b)
• 2021-07-26 Regular Message Received For Concurrence in S Com Sub
• 2021-07-26 Regular Message Sent To House
• 2021-07-22 Passed 3rd Reading passage, reading-3
• 2021-07-22 Passed 2nd Reading reading-2
• 2021-07-21 Reptd Fav committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-06-23 Re-ref Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate referral-committee
• 2021-06-23 Com Substitute Adopted
• 2021-06-23 Reptd Fav Com Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-06-17 Re-ref to Judiciary. If fav, re-ref to Rules and Operations of the Senate referral-committee
• 2021-06-17 Withdrawn From Com
• 2021-04-05 Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate referral-committee
• 2021-04-05 Passed 1st Reading reading-1
• 2021-04-05 Regular Message Received From House
• 2021-04-05 Regular Message Sent To Senate
• 2021-04-01 Passed 3rd Reading passage, reading-3
• 2021-04-01 Passed 2nd Reading reading-2
• 2021-04-01 Added to Calendar
• 2021-04-01 Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
• 2021-04-01 Reptd Fav committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-03-30 Re-ref Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House referral-committee
• 2021-03-30 Reptd Fav Com Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-03-17 Ref to the Com on Judiciary 2, if favorable, Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House referral-committee
• 2021-03-17 Passed 1st Reading reading-1
• 2021-03-16 Filed introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/75594155-6f6d-41f3-828b-acb7abd98269. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).