---
type: "Bill"
title: "County Financing/Powell Bill/City Election."
description: "County Financing/Powell Bill/City Election."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2007"
identifier: "SB 1513"
citation: "North Carolina SB 1513 (2007)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["BUDGETING", "COUNTIES", "FUNDING", "INFRASTRUCTURE", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "PRESENTED", "PUBLIC", "RATIFIED", "ROADS & HIGHWAYS", "TITLE CHANGE", "TRANSPORTATION", "TRANSPORTATION DEPT.", "CHAPTERED", "SEN. JENKINS"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 6
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2007-03-27"
last_action: "2007-08-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7ab12e16-cf29-48ab-8e5d-1d88d953d64e"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2007&BillID=S1513&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "2a31fbdf3f34162776ebc7b25527e77abcb8f94eb8bccb0852a99de293354529"
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 1513 (2007) — County Financing/Powell Bill/City Election.

## 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/S1513v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/Senate/PDF/S1513v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/Senate/PDF/S1513v2.pdf)
4. **Edition 3** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/Senate/PDF/S1513v3.pdf)
5. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/Senate/PDF/S1513v4.pdf)
6. **SL2007-428** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/Senate/PDF/S1513v5.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **105–3** (pass) · lower
- Second Reading — **43–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Jenkins — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2007-08-23** Ch. SL 2007-428 `became-law`
- **2007-08-23** Signed By Gov. 8/23/2007 `executive-signature`
- **2007-08-02** Pres. To Gov. 8/2/2007 `executive-receipt`
- **2007-08-02** Ratified
- **2007-08-01** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2007-07-31** Placed On Cal For 8/1/2007
- **2007-07-31** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2007-07-31** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2007-07-27** Ref To Com On Finance `referral-committee`
- **2007-07-27** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2007-07-27** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2007-07-26** Com Substitute Adopted
- **2007-07-26** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2007-05-22** Re-ref Com On Finance `referral-committee`
- **2007-05-22** Withdrawn From Cal
- **2007-05-21** Com Substitute Adopted
- **2007-05-21** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2007-03-28** Ref To Com On Commerce, Small Business and Entrepreneurship `referral-committee`
- **2007-03-27** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7ab12e16-cf29-48ab-8e5d-1d88d953d64e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).