---
type: "Bill"
title: "Drinking Water Supply Reservoir Protection."
description: "Drinking Water Supply Reservoir Protection."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2005"
identifier: "SB 981"
citation: "North Carolina SB 981 (2005)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ADMINISTRATIVE RULES", "COMMISSIONS", "ENVIRONMENT", "ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT COMN.", "PRESENTED", "PUBLIC", "RATIFIED", "REPORTS", "STUDIES", "WATER RESOURCES", "CHAPTERED", "SEN. COWELL"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 6
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2005-03-23"
last_action: "2005-07-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b9856223-15c1-4c28-8604-182ee0cdda83"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2005&BillID=S981&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "1526b0dd5061986c4f99a7398d2f700600ef19043c42a3d603cf8f5bb647e9a8"
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 981 (2005) — Drinking Water Supply Reservoir Protection.

## 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/S981v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2005/Bills/Senate/PDF/S981v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2005/Bills/Senate/PDF/S981v2.pdf)
4. **Edition 3** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2005/Bills/Senate/PDF/S981v3.pdf)
5. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2005/Bills/Senate/PDF/S981v4.pdf)
6. **SL2005-190** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2005/Bills/Senate/PDF/S981v5.pdf)

## Votes

- Amendment 1 — **48–0** (pass) · upper
- Second Reading — **113–2** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

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

## Timeline

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

- **2005-07-15** Ch. SL 2005-190 `became-law`
- **2005-07-15** Signed By Gov. 7/15/2005 `executive-signature`
- **2005-07-11** Pres. To Gov. 7/8/2005 `executive-receipt`
- **2005-07-07** Ratified
- **2005-07-06** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2005-06-30** Placed On Cal For 7/5/2005
- **2005-06-29** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2005-06-29** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2005-06-02** Ref To Com On Environment and Natural Resources `referral-committee`
- **2005-06-02** Rec From Senate
- **2005-06-01** Engrossed
- **2005-06-01** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2005-06-01** Amend Adopted #1 `amendment-passage`
- **2005-06-01** Placed On Cal For 6/1/2005
- **2005-06-01** Com Substitute Adopted
- **2005-06-01** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2005-03-24** Ref To Com On Agriculture/Environment/Natural Resources `referral-committee`
- **2005-03-23** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b9856223-15c1-4c28-8604-182ee0cdda83`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).