---
type: "Bill"
title: "Ellenboro Staggered Terms."
description: "Ellenboro Staggered Terms."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2007"
identifier: "SB 116"
citation: "North Carolina SB 116 (2007)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CHARTERS", "CITY COUNCILS", "COUNTIES", "ELECTIONS", "LOCAL", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "MUNICIPALITIES", "RATIFIED", "SESSION LAWS", "TERM LENGTHS & LIMITS", "SEN. DALTON", "RUTHERFORD COUNTY", "CHAPTERED", "ELLENBORO"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 4
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2007-02-08"
last_action: "2007-07-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/511de99e-3576-4abe-8884-09cf0221e560"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2007&BillID=S116&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "1a9740ce73ccd045c55d7b2d007a533fb66a68f08aec5a4c2c8c0c9ab3c90f03"
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 116 (2007) — Ellenboro Staggered Terms.

## 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/2007/Bills/Senate/PDF/S116v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/Senate/PDF/S116v1.pdf)
3. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/Senate/PDF/S116v2.pdf)
4. **SL2007-310** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/Senate/PDF/S116v3.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **97–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Dalton — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2007-07-28** Ch. SL 2007-310 `became-law`
- **2007-07-28** Ratified
- **2007-07-27** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2007-07-26** Placed On Cal For 7/27/2007
- **2007-07-26** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2007-07-26** Withdrawn From Comm
- **2007-06-25** Re-ref Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2007-06-25** Reconsidered 3rd Reading
- **2007-06-25** Recalled From Enrolling
- **2007-06-21** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2007-06-20** Placed On Cal For 6/21/2007
- **2007-06-20** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2007-06-20** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2007-04-16** Ref To Com On Local Government I `referral-committee`
- **2007-04-16** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2007-04-11** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2007-04-10** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2007-02-12** Ref To Com On State & Local Government `referral-committee`
- **2007-02-08** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/511de99e-3576-4abe-8884-09cf0221e560`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).