Legislation: batch C — MO MS MT NC ND NE NH NJ NM NV

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

legislation/us/states/nc/2007/sb-654.md

@@ -0,0 +1,74 @@
+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Rutherford Referendum."
+description: "Rutherford Referendum."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
+legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
+session: "2007"
+identifier: "SB 654"
+citation: "North Carolina SB 654 (2007)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["COUNTIES", "COUNTY COMMISSIONERS", "ELECTIONS", "LOCAL", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "PLANNING & ZONING", "PROPERTY", "RATIFIED", "REFERENDUMS & INITIATIVES", "SEN. DALTON", "RUTHERFORD COUNTY", "CHAPTERED"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: []
+version_count: 5
+action_count: 15
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2007-03-07"
+last_action: "2007-06-28"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b95ad138-b43a-4bfa-af49-f8de434498b2"
+source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2007&BillID=S654&votesToView=all"
+source_hash: "1258459a33eb4041f6772fe3700358f11a8b2b5138c934649aa08637f0d37e0e"
+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 654 (2007) — Rutherford Referendum.
+
+## 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/S654v0.pdf)
+2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/Senate/PDF/S654v1.pdf)
+3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/Senate/PDF/S654v2.pdf)
+4. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/Senate/PDF/S654v3.pdf)
+5. **SL2007-137** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/Senate/PDF/S654v4.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Second Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper
+- Motion 8\To Concur — **50–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Dalton — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2007-06-28** Ch. SL 2007-137 `became-law`
+- **2007-06-28** Ratified
+- **2007-06-27** Concurred In H/com Sub `amendment-passage`
+- **2007-06-26** Placed On Cal For 6/27/2007
+- **2007-06-26** Rec To Concur H Com Sub
+- **2007-06-25** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
+- **2007-06-21** Placed On Cal For 6/25/2007
+- **2007-06-21** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
+- **2007-06-21** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2007-04-16** Ref To Com On Local Government I `referral-committee`
+- **2007-04-16** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
+- **2007-04-11** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
+- **2007-04-10** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2007-03-12** Ref To Com On State & Local Government `referral-committee`
+- **2007-03-07** Filed `introduction`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b95ad138-b43a-4bfa-af49-f8de434498b2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).
+