---
type: "Bill"
title: "Foothills Airport Authority Land Acquisition."
description: "Foothills Airport Authority Land Acquisition."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2005"
identifier: "SB 278"
citation: "North Carolina SB 278 (2005)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["AIRPORTS", "AUTHORITIES", "AVIATION", "BLANK BILL", "CONSTRUCTION", "CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTIONS", "COUNTIES", "LOCAL", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "PROPERTY", "RATIFIED", "REAL ESTATE", "TITLE CHANGE", "TRANSPORTATION", "BURKE COUNTY", "CALDWELL COUNTY", "CHAPTERED", "SEN. JACUMIN"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 5
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2005-03-01"
last_action: "2005-07-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/349ab7dc-4d6e-4dce-a280-2e3f001845a6"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2005&BillID=S278&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "30f816ef74813bf88c9818c66ab477505e1e65c2d02ba3f6b56724078c7a6641"
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 278 (2005) — Foothills Airport Authority Land Acquisition.

## 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/2005/Bills/Senate/PDF/S278v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2005/Bills/Senate/PDF/S278v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2005/Bills/Senate/PDF/S278v2.pdf)
4. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2005/Bills/Senate/PDF/S278v3.pdf)
5. **SL2005-171** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2005/Bills/Senate/PDF/S278v4.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **50–0** (pass) · upper
- Second Reading — **111–2** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Jacumin — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2005-07-11** Ch. SL 2005-171 `became-law`
- **2005-07-11** Ratified
- **2005-07-07** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2005-07-06** Placed On Cal For 7/7/2005
- **2005-06-30** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2005-06-30** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2005-06-02** Ref To Com On State Government `referral-committee`
- **2005-06-02** Rec From Senate
- **2005-05-31** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2005-05-26** Placed On Cal For 5/31/2005
- **2005-05-26** Com Substitute Adopted
- **2005-05-26** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2005-05-11** Re-ref Com On Finance `referral-committee`
- **2005-05-11** Withdrawn From Comm
- **2005-03-02** Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2005-03-01** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/349ab7dc-4d6e-4dce-a280-2e3f001845a6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).