---
type: "Bill"
title: "Retainage Payments/Construction Contracts."
description: "Retainage Payments/Construction Contracts."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2007"
identifier: "SB 1245"
citation: "North Carolina SB 1245 (2007)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ADMINISTRATION DEPT.", "BIDS & BIDDING", "COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES", "COMMUNITY COLLEGES", "CONSTRUCTION", "CONTRACTS", "EDUCATION", "HIGHER EDUCATION", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "PRESENTED", "PUBLIC", "PURCHASING", "RATIFIED", "REPORTS", "STUDIES", "TITLE CHANGE", "UNC", "CHAPTERED", "SEN. JENKINS"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 7
action_count: 21
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2007-03-21"
last_action: "2007-08-17"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/47c5a25c-52df-470b-8cbd-3b797f360b76"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2007&BillID=S1245&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "ab3ffd1e59a8050d4113669cd77c811d9a4f6f045e3fa1aa42dba7c84b4c6623"
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 1245 (2007) — Retainage Payments/Construction Contracts.

## 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/S1245v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/Senate/PDF/S1245v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/Senate/PDF/S1245v2.pdf)
4. **Edition 3** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/Senate/PDF/S1245v3.pdf)
5. **Edition 4** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/Senate/PDF/S1245v4.pdf)
6. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/Senate/PDF/S1245v5.pdf)
7. **SL2007-365** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/Senate/PDF/S1245v6.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **108–0** (pass) · lower
- Motion 8\To Concur — **50–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Atwater — cosponsor (person)
- Bingham — cosponsor (person)
- Hoyle — cosponsor (person)
- Jenkins — cosponsor (person)
- Jones — cosponsor (person)
- Malone — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2007-08-17** Ch. SL 2007-365 `became-law`
- **2007-08-17** Signed By Gov. 8/17/2007 `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`
- **2007-07-28** Placed On Cal For 7/30/2007
- **2007-07-28** Rec To Concur H Com Sub
- **2007-07-27** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2007-07-26** Placed On Cal For 7/27/2007
- **2007-07-26** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2007-07-26** Reptd Fav Com Sub 2 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2007-07-19** Re-ref Com On Judiciary II `referral-committee`
- **2007-07-19** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2007-05-08** Ref to the Com on Commerce, Small Business and Entrepreneurship and, if favorable, to the Com on Judiciary II `referral-committee`
- **2007-05-08** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2007-05-03** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2007-05-02** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2007-05-01** Com Substitute Adopted
- **2007-05-01** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2007-03-26** Ref To Com On Commerce, Small Business and Entrepreneurship `referral-committee`
- **2007-03-21** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/47c5a25c-52df-470b-8cbd-3b797f360b76`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).