republic-os/legislation/us/states/nc/2021/hb-602.md

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North Carolina HB 602 (2021) — UNC Legislative Priorities/Human Resources/Reports.

Version chain

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

1. Filed (filed) — source
2. A1: ARQ-40-V-2 (committee substitute) — source
3. Edition 1 (committee substitute) — source
4. Edition 2 (committee substitute) — source
5. Edition 3 (committee substitute) — source
6. Edition 4 (committee substitute) — source
7. Edition 5 (committee substitute) — source
8. Ratified (committee substitute) — source
9. SL 2021-80 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Second Reading — 50–0 (pass) · upper
• M11 Concur — 106–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Arp — primary (person)
• Hardister — primary (person)
• Pickett — primary (person)
• A. Baker — cosponsor (person)
• Cooper-Suggs — cosponsor (person)
• Gill — cosponsor (person)
• Hawkins — cosponsor (person)
• Hunter — cosponsor (person)
• K. Smith — cosponsor (person)
• Lambeth — cosponsor (person)
• Lucas — cosponsor (person)
• Terry — cosponsor (person)
• Willingham — cosponsor (person)
• Wray — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-07-08 Ch. SL 2021-80 became-law
• 2021-07-08 Signed by Gov. 7/8/2021 executive-signature
• 2021-06-28 Pres. To Gov. 6/28/2021 executive-receipt
• 2021-06-28 Ratified
• 2021-06-24 Ordered Enrolled
• 2021-06-24 Concurred In S Com Sub amendment-passage
• 2021-06-24 Added to Calendar
• 2021-06-24 Cal Pursuant 36(b)
• 2021-06-23 Regular Message Received For Concurrence in S Com Sub
• 2021-06-23 Regular Message Sent To House
• 2021-06-22 Engrossed
• 2021-06-22 Passed 3rd Reading passage, reading-3
• 2021-06-22 Passed 2nd Reading reading-2
• 2021-06-22 Amend Adopted A1 amendment-passage
• 2021-06-21 Reptd Fav committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-06-16 Re-ref Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate referral-committee
• 2021-06-16 Com Substitute Adopted
• 2021-06-16 Reptd Fav Com Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-05-20 Re-ref to Education/Higher Education. If fav, re-ref to Rules and Operations of the Senate referral-committee
• 2021-05-20 Withdrawn From Com
• 2021-04-29 Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate referral-committee
• 2021-04-29 Passed 1st Reading reading-1
• 2021-04-29 Regular Message Received From House
• 2021-04-29 Regular Message Sent To Senate
• 2021-04-28 Passed 3rd Reading passage, reading-3
• 2021-04-28 Passed 2nd Reading reading-2
• 2021-04-28 Added to Calendar
• 2021-04-28 Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
• 2021-04-28 Reptd Fav Com Sub 2 committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-04-22 Re-ref Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House referral-committee
• 2021-04-22 Reptd Fav Com Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-04-20 Ref to the Com on Education - Universities, if favorable, Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House referral-committee
• 2021-04-20 Passed 1st Reading reading-1
• 2021-04-19 Filed introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/42ab8ce6-12c9-4a6c-ac5c-0dcea2abbfed. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).