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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Madison Town Election."
+description: "Madison Town Election."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
+legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
+session: "2003"
+identifier: "SB 1277"
+citation: "North Carolina SB 1277 (2003)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["CITY COUNCILS", "COUNTIES", "ELECTIONS", "LOCAL", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "MUNICIPALITIES", "PUBLIC OFFICIALS", "RATIFIED", "TERM LENGTHS & LIMITS", "SEN. BERGER", "ROCKINGHAM COUNTY", "CHAPTERED", "MADISON"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: []
+version_count: 5
+action_count: 13
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2004-05-20"
+last_action: "2004-07-07"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/dc0e69e5-ece6-4222-900f-bd8d7191a4dd"
+source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2003&BillID=S1277&votesToView=all"
+source_hash: "a35086372988f91e99853a12710bc708278750c8c948ac56e87a01c247da6a60"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-nc"]
+---
+
+# North Carolina SB 1277 (2003) — Madison Town Election.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Filed** (filed) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/Senate/PDF/S1277v0.pdf)
+2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/Senate/PDF/S1277v1.pdf)
+3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/Senate/PDF/S1277v2.pdf)
+4. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/Senate/PDF/S1277v3.pdf)
+5. **SL 2004-54** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/Senate/PDF/S1277v4.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Second Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Berger — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2004-07-07** Ch. SL 2004-54 `became-law`
+- **2004-07-06** Ratified
+- **2004-07-01** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
+- **2004-06-30** Placed On Cal For 7/1/2004
+- **2004-06-24** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
+- **2004-06-24** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2004-06-16** Ref To Com On Local Government I `referral-committee`
+- **2004-06-16** Rec From Senate
+- **2004-06-14** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
+- **2004-06-10** Com Substitute Adopted
+- **2004-06-10** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2004-05-24** Ref To Com On State Government, Local Government, and Veterans' Affairs `referral-committee`
+- **2004-05-20** Filed `introduction`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/dc0e69e5-ece6-4222-900f-bd8d7191a4dd`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).
+