---
type: "Bill"
title: "Eden Charter Amendments."
description: "Eden Charter Amendments."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2003"
identifier: "SB 492"
citation: "North Carolina SB 492 (2003)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CHARTERS", "CITY COUNCILS", "LOCAL", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "MAYORS", "MUNICIPALITIES", "RATIFIED", "SESSION LAWS", "SEN. BERGER", "ROCKINGHAM", "EDEN", "CHAPTERED"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 5
action_count: 13
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2003-03-19"
last_action: "2003-05-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/54f19123-ce95-430d-85d1-139dada2d8da"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2003&BillID=S492&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "99a2289ce10829d1f8ade6894ab2467decc6a77be181d3fbd343e5244d728227"
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 492 (2003) — Eden Charter Amendments.

## 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/S492v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/Senate/PDF/S492v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/Senate/PDF/S492v2.pdf)
4. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/Senate/PDF/S492v3.pdf)
5. **SL 2003-82** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/Senate/PDF/S492v4.pdf)

## Votes

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

## Sponsors

- Berger — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2003-05-27** Ch. SL 2003-82 `became-law`
- **2003-05-27** Ratified
- **2003-05-22** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2003-05-21** Placed On Cal For 5/22/2003
- **2003-05-21** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2003-05-21** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2003-04-22** Ref To Com On Local Government II `referral-committee`
- **2003-04-22** Rec From Senate
- **2003-04-17** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2003-04-16** Com Substitute Adopted
- **2003-04-16** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `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/54f19123-ce95-430d-85d1-139dada2d8da`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).