---
type: "Bill"
title: "Monroe Charter Amendment."
description: "Monroe Charter Amendment."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2005"
identifier: "SB 43"
citation: "North Carolina SB 43 (2005)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CHARTERS", "CITY MANAGERS", "COUNTIES", "EMPLOYMENT", "LAW ENFORCEMENT", "LOCAL", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "MUNICIPALITIES", "PERSONNEL", "RATIFIED", "SESSION LAWS", "UNION COUNTY", "MONROE", "CHAPTERED", "SEN. GOODALL"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 4
action_count: 17
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2005-02-02"
last_action: "2005-04-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/197d70b7-6db4-4520-ba82-8e0590f2d5a7"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2005&BillID=S43&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "554b6b8a80418476d88f82345c7daf8ea8d596ba6baa48896629403ac600f9a1"
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 43 (2005) — Monroe Charter Amendment.

## 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/S43v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2005/Bills/Senate/PDF/S43v1.pdf)
3. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2005/Bills/Senate/PDF/S43v2.pdf)
4. **SL2005-17** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2005/Bills/Senate/PDF/S43v3.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Goodall — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2005-04-27** Ch. SL 2005-17 `became-law`
- **2005-04-27** Ratified
- **2005-04-26** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2005-04-18** Postponed To 4/25/2005
- **2005-04-14** Placed On Cal For 4/18/2005
- **2005-04-14** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2005-04-14** Withdrawn From Comm
- **2005-03-24** Re-ref Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2005-03-24** Withdrawn From Cal
- **2005-03-23** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2005-03-23** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2005-03-09** Ref To Com On Local Government I `referral-committee`
- **2005-03-09** Rec From Senate
- **2005-03-03** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2005-03-02** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2005-02-03** Ref To Com On State and Local Government `referral-committee`
- **2005-02-02** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/197d70b7-6db4-4520-ba82-8e0590f2d5a7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).