---
type: "Bill"
title: "Wilmington City Manager Authority."
description: "Wilmington City Manager Authority."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2003"
identifier: "SB 490"
citation: "North Carolina SB 490 (2003)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CHARTERS", "CITY MANAGERS", "COUNTIES", "INSURANCE", "INSURANCE", "LIABILITY", "LOCAL", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "MUNICIPALITIES", "RATIFIED", "SESSION LAWS", "TORTS", "SEN. BALLANTINE", "NEW HANOVER COUNTY", "LIABILITY", "WILMINGTON", "CHAPTERED"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 4
action_count: 12
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2003-03-19"
last_action: "2003-05-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/53a5bbb8-252b-4219-9b95-773fb25d95c6"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2003&BillID=S490&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "405b471e2c2267edb9e97af01d651679af2071c8014ae367c7dc9207a0b1ec0b"
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 490 (2003) — Wilmington City Manager Authority.

## 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/S490v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/Senate/PDF/S490v1.pdf)
3. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/Senate/PDF/S490v2.pdf)
4. **SL 2003-41** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/Senate/PDF/S490v3.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Ballantine — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2003-05-14** Ch. SL 2003-41 `became-law`
- **2003-05-14** Ratified
- **2003-05-13** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2003-05-08** Placed On Cal For 5/12/2003
- **2003-05-07** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2003-05-07** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2003-04-15** Ref To Com On Local Government I `referral-committee`
- **2003-04-15** Rec From Senate
- **2003-04-10** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2003-04-09** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2003-03-20** Ref To Com On State Government, Local Government, and Veterans' Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2003-03-19** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/53a5bbb8-252b-4219-9b95-773fb25d95c6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).