SB 715 North Carolina Senate · 2025-2026 Session

Student Voter ID Grant Program/CCs.

SB 715 appropriates $500,000 to create a grant program for North Carolina community colleges. The program provides up to $20,000 per college to upgrade equipment and facilities needed to produce student ID cards that meet state voting requirements (G.S. 163-166.16). It directly affects community colleges that lack voter-acceptable student IDs, removing financial barriers to providing these cards. Colleges must submit plans for fund use by August 15, 2025, and the State Board of Elections must approve the IDs before they can be used for voting.

Issues: ✓ Education

Bill status died 1 of 4 stages cleared

Introduction

Mar 2025

Committee Review

Floor Vote

Governor

Introduced Mar 25, 2025 Last action Mar 26, 2025

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Filed → Edition 1 · 3 edits

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The bill underwent technical formatting changes during its transition from filing to the first edition. The document header was updated to reflect the official session number and bill identifier, while the reference code was changed from a filing-specific code to the standard legislative identifier. No substantive policy changes were made to the bill's content, scope, or requirements.

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The bill's reference code was changed from DRS45356-NGa-46 to S715-v-1, which is the standard identifier format used for Senate bills in the legislative process.

The bill's reference was updated to include the Rules and Operations of the Senate committee with a specific date of March 26, 2025, replacing the previous unmarked referral status.

The document header was restructured to display the session number and bill number in a more standardized format, removing the filing-specific date and code.

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Committee

Mar 26, 2025

Committee

Re-ref Com On Appropriations/Base Budget

upper

Mar 26, 2025

Committee

Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate

upper

Mar 25, 2025

Introduced

Filed

upper

1 primary · 7 co-sponsors