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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Remove Sunset/Debt Management for Consumers."
+description: "Remove Sunset/Debt Management for Consumers."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
+legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
+session: "2007"
+identifier: "SB 197"
+citation: "North Carolina SB 197 (2007)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["COMMERCE", "CONSUMER PROTECTION", "DEBTOR & CREDITOR", "FINANCIAL SERVICES", "PUBLIC", "RATIFIED", "SESSION LAWS", "TITLE CHANGE", "SUNSETS", "CHAPTERED", "SEN. DORSETT"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: []
+version_count: 5
+action_count: 17
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2007-02-15"
+last_action: "2007-06-14"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bd6dddc0-8ffc-4497-ba10-73680ca5148c"
+source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2007&BillID=S197&votesToView=all"
+source_hash: "3a6767c03692d8e893b9ae1cec525f4f68dcc9525992ef9c912cd8c2a7284fac"
+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 197 (2007) — Remove Sunset/Debt Management for Consumers.
+
+## 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/2007/Bills/Senate/PDF/S197v0.pdf)
+2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/Senate/PDF/S197v1.pdf)
+3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/Senate/PDF/S197v2.pdf)
+4. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/Senate/PDF/S197v3.pdf)
+5. **SL2007-79** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/Senate/PDF/S197v4.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Second Reading — **98–0** (pass) · lower
+- Third Reading — **115–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Allran — cosponsor (person)
+- Atwater — cosponsor (person)
+- Berger of Franklin — cosponsor (person)
+- Berger of Rockingham — cosponsor (person)
+- Bingham — cosponsor (person)
+- Brown — cosponsor (person)
+- Clodfelter — cosponsor (person)
+- Dalton — cosponsor (person)
+- Dannelly — cosponsor (person)
+- Dorsett — cosponsor (person)
+- Garrou — cosponsor (person)
+- Goss — cosponsor (person)
+- Graham — cosponsor (person)
+- Hoyle — cosponsor (person)
+- Jenkins — cosponsor (person)
+- Jones — cosponsor (person)
+- Malone — cosponsor (person)
+- Nesbitt — cosponsor (person)
+- Preston — cosponsor (person)
+- Purcell — cosponsor (person)
+- Shaw — cosponsor (person)
+- Stevens — cosponsor (person)
+- Tillman — cosponsor (person)
+- Weinstein — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2007-06-14** Ch. SL 2007-79 `became-law`
+- **2007-06-14** Signed By Gov. 6/14/2007 `executive-signature`
+- **2007-06-06** Pres. To Gov. 6/6/2007 `executive-receipt`
+- **2007-06-05** Ratified
+- **2007-06-04** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
+- **2007-05-31** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
+- **2007-05-30** Placed On Cal For 5/31/2007
+- **2007-05-30** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
+- **2007-05-30** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2007-04-19** Ref To Com On Commerce, Small Business and Entrepreneurship `referral-committee`
+- **2007-04-19** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
+- **2007-04-17** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
+- **2007-04-11** Placed On Cal For 4/17/2007
+- **2007-04-11** Com Substitute Adopted
+- **2007-04-11** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2007-02-19** Ref To Com On Commerce, Small Business and Entrepreneurship `referral-committee`
+- **2007-02-15** Filed `introduction`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/bd6dddc0-8ffc-4497-ba10-73680ca5148c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).
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