---
type: "Bill"
title: "Raleigh Charter Amendments."
description: "Raleigh Charter Amendments."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2005"
identifier: "SB 392"
citation: "North Carolina SB 392 (2005)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CHARTERS", "EMPLOYMENT", "LOCAL", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "MUNICIPALITIES", "PERSONNEL", "RATIFIED", "SALES", "SESSION LAWS", "WAKE COUNTY", "RALEIGH", "CHAPTERED", "SEN. MALONE", "SEN. COWELL", "SEN. HUNT"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 6
action_count: 17
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2005-03-03"
last_action: "2005-07-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9a2b5711-e7eb-411a-bbfb-3331c37d1fd6"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2005&BillID=S392&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "ee61bc8d6e09b3ab0cf95b97bacbf187da25eba324e3b96af8a192d829abd4ce"
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 392 (2005) — Raleigh 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/2005/Bills/Senate/PDF/S392v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2005/Bills/Senate/PDF/S392v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2005/Bills/Senate/PDF/S392v2.pdf)
4. **Edition 3** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2005/Bills/Senate/PDF/S392v3.pdf)
5. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2005/Bills/Senate/PDF/S392v4.pdf)
6. **SL2005-157** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2005/Bills/Senate/PDF/S392v5.pdf)

## Votes

- Motion 8\To Concur — **48–0** (pass) · upper
- Second Reading — **50–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Cowell — cosponsor (person)
- Hunt — cosponsor (person)
- Malone — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2005-07-06** Ch. SL 2005-157 `became-law`
- **2005-07-06** Ratified
- **2005-07-05** Concurred In H/com Sub `amendment-passage`
- **2005-07-01** Placed On Cal For 7/5/2005
- **2005-07-01** Rec To Concur H Com Sub
- **2005-06-30** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2005-06-29** Placed On Cal For 6/30/2005
- **2005-06-27** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2005-06-27** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2005-03-31** Ref To Com On Local Government I `referral-committee`
- **2005-03-31** Rec From Senate
- **2005-03-29** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2005-03-24** Placed On Cal For 3/29/2005
- **2005-03-24** Com Substitute Adopted
- **2005-03-24** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2005-03-07** Ref To Com On State and Local Government `referral-committee`
- **2005-03-03** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9a2b5711-e7eb-411a-bbfb-3331c37d1fd6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).