---
type: "Bill"
title: "Notify County Before State Land Acquisition."
description: "Notify County Before State Land Acquisition."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2007"
identifier: "SB 1167"
citation: "North Carolina SB 1167 (2007)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ADMINISTRATION DEPT.", "CITY COUNCILS", "CITY MANAGERS", "COUNTIES", "COUNTY COMMISSIONERS", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "MUNICIPALITIES", "NOTIFICATION", "PRESENTED", "PROPERTY", "PUBLIC", "PURCHASING", "RATIFIED", "REAL ESTATE", "TITLE CHANGE", "CHAPTERED", "SEN. DORSETT", "SEN. GRAHAM"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 6
action_count: 22
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2007-03-20"
last_action: "2007-08-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2719b7dd-7773-4dfc-9713-9542575fc259"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2007&BillID=S1167&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "9734179be2ec928724e2152932008915871f433a9f213b017b8da0ba9566325f"
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 1167 (2007) — Notify County Before State Land Acquisition.

## 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/S1167v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/Senate/PDF/S1167v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/Senate/PDF/S1167v2.pdf)
4. **Edition 3** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/Senate/PDF/S1167v3.pdf)
5. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/Senate/PDF/S1167v4.pdf)
6. **SL2007-396** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/Senate/PDF/S1167v5.pdf)

## Votes

- Motion 8\To Concur — **45–0** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **106–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Atwater — cosponsor (person)
- Dorsett — cosponsor (person)
- Graham — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2007-08-20** Ch. SL 2007-396 `became-law`
- **2007-08-20** Signed By Gov. 8/20/2007 `executive-signature`
- **2007-07-31** Pres. To Gov. 7/31/2007 `executive-receipt`
- **2007-07-31** Ratified
- **2007-07-30** Concurred In H/com Sub `amendment-passage`
- **2007-07-27** Placed On Cal For 7/28/2007
- **2007-07-27** Rec To Concur H Com Sub
- **2007-07-26** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2007-07-24** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2007-07-23** Placed On Cal For 7/24/2007
- **2007-07-23** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2007-07-23** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2007-07-10** Re-ref Com On Judiciary III `referral-committee`
- **2007-07-10** Withdrawn From Comm
- **2007-05-09** Ref To Com On Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2007-05-09** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2007-05-07** Engrossed
- **2007-05-07** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2007-05-07** Amend Adopted 1 `amendment-passage`
- **2007-05-03** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2007-03-22** Ref To Com On Appropriations/Base Budget `referral-committee`
- **2007-03-20** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2719b7dd-7773-4dfc-9713-9542575fc259`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).