---
type: "Bill"
title: "Economic Development - NC Product Preference."
description: "Economic Development - NC Product Preference."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2005"
identifier: "SB 879"
citation: "North Carolina SB 879 (2005)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ADMINISTRATION DEPT.", "BIDS & BIDDING", "COMMISSIONS", "CONTRACTS", "GENERAL ASSEMBLY", "PRESENTED", "PUBLIC", "PUBLIC ASSISTANCE COMN.", "PURCHASING", "RATIFIED", "SEN. GARROU", "CHAPTERED"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 5
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2005-03-22"
last_action: "2005-07-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7420c89b-c061-4a24-8349-d9be7fdbc35d"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2005&BillID=S879&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "67fdd79bed5ea29d9fff2563cc102a019bc542b44aa32ea1792232b101e5be0d"
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 879 (2005) — Economic Development - NC Product Preference.

## 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/S879v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2005/Bills/Senate/PDF/S879v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2005/Bills/Senate/PDF/S879v2.pdf)
4. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2005/Bills/Senate/PDF/S879v3.pdf)
5. **SL2005-213** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2005/Bills/Senate/PDF/S879v4.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **49–0** (pass) · upper
- Second Reading — **106–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Dalton — cosponsor (person)
- Garrou — cosponsor (person)
- Goodall — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2005-07-20** Ch. SL 2005-213 `became-law`
- **2005-07-20** Signed By Gov. 7/20/2005 `executive-signature`
- **2005-07-12** Pres. To Gov. 7/12/2005 `executive-receipt`
- **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`
- **2005-05-16** Ref To Com On State Government `referral-committee`
- **2005-05-16** Rec From Senate
- **2005-05-11** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2005-05-09** Placed On Cal For 5/11/2005
- **2005-05-09** Withdrawn From Cal
- **2005-05-03** Placed On Cal For 5/10/2005
- **2005-05-03** Withdrawn From Cal
- **2005-05-02** Com Substitute Adopted
- **2005-05-02** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2005-03-23** Ref To Com On Commerce `referral-committee`
- **2005-03-22** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7420c89b-c061-4a24-8349-d9be7fdbc35d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).