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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Susie's Law."
+description: "Susie's Law."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
+legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
+session: "2009"
+identifier: "SB 254"
+citation: "North Carolina SB 254 (2009)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["ANIMALS", "CRIMES", "DISASTERS & EMERGENCIES", "DOMESTIC ANIMALS", "EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT", "FISCAL NOTES", "GOVERNOR", "PRESENTED", "PUBLIC OFFICIALS", "RATIFIED", "TITLE CHANGE", "CHAPTERED", "SEN. NESBITT", "SEN. ATWATER", "SEN. SNOW", "LAWS NAMED FOR PEOPLE", "SEN. GOSS"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: []
+version_count: 5
+action_count: 21
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2009-02-19"
+last_action: "2010-06-23"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0687df93-53f6-4bdf-87b9-6f1552a752a7"
+source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2009&BillID=S254&votesToView=all"
+source_hash: "5fd97837e955c7929080ff41a2ae4237c9d108e8322e815035e1699ba66193fb"
+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 254 (2009) — Susie's Law.
+
+## 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/2009/Bills/Senate/PDF/S254v0.pdf)
+2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/Senate/PDF/S254v1.pdf)
+3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/Senate/PDF/S254v2.pdf)
+4. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/Senate/PDF/S254v3.pdf)
+5. **SL2010-16** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/Senate/PDF/S254v4.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Second Reading — **113–0** (pass) · lower
+- Motion 8\To Concur — **47–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Atwater — cosponsor (person)
+- Goss — cosponsor (person)
+- Nesbitt — cosponsor (person)
+- Snow — cosponsor (person)
+- Swindell — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2010-06-23** Ch. SL 2010-16 `became-law`
+- **2010-06-23** Signed By Gov. 6/23/2010 `executive-signature`
+- **2010-06-21** Pres. To Gov. 6/18/2010 `executive-receipt`
+- **2010-06-17** Ratified
+- **2010-06-16** Concurred In H/com Sub `amendment-passage`
+- **2010-06-15** Reptd Fav To Concur `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2010-05-27** Ref To Com On Judiciary I `referral-committee`
+- **2010-05-27** Rec To Concur H Com Sub
+- **2010-05-27** Rec From House
+- **2010-05-26** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
+- **2010-05-25** Placed On Cal For 5/26/2010
+- **2010-05-25** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
+- **2010-05-25** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2010-05-24** serial referral stricken bill is re-referred to Judiciary III
+- **2010-05-24** Withdrawn From Com
+- **2009-05-11** Ref to the Com on Homeland Security, Military, and Veterans Affairs, if favorable, State Government/State Personnel `referral-committee`
+- **2009-05-11** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
+- **2009-05-06** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
+- **2009-05-05** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2009-02-23** Ref To Com On State and Local Government `referral-committee`
+- **2009-02-19** Filed `introduction`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0687df93-53f6-4bdf-87b9-6f1552a752a7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).
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