---
type: "Bill"
title: "Cary Electronic Notices."
description: "Cary Electronic Notices."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2007"
identifier: "SB 1579"
citation: "North Carolina SB 1579 (2007)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["COUNTIES", "EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES", "INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY", "INTERNET", "LOCAL", "MUNICIPALITIES", "NOTIFICATION", "PUBLIC MEETINGS", "RATIFIED", "SESSION LAWS", "WAKE COUNTY", "CARY", "CHAPTERED", "SEN. STEVENS", "ELECTRONIC GOVERNMENT", "SEN. COWELL"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 4
action_count: 12
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2008-05-13"
last_action: "2008-06-17"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fef96b1d-8c2c-4469-955d-93b3e11cf790"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2007&BillID=S1579&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "54d7b6ee9869238405d03ca203d6306edb5b685452777740fdaebc59828558eb"
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 1579 (2007) — Cary Electronic Notices.

## 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/S1579v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/Senate/PDF/S1579v1.pdf)
3. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/Senate/PDF/S1579v2.pdf)
4. **SL2008-5** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/Senate/PDF/S1579v3.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **44–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Cowell — cosponsor (person)
- Stevens — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2008-06-17** Ch. SL 2008-5 `became-law`
- **2008-06-17** Ratified
- **2008-06-16** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2008-06-12** Placed On Cal For 6/16/2008
- **2008-06-12** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2008-06-12** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2008-06-03** Ref To Com On Local Government I `referral-committee`
- **2008-06-03** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2008-05-29** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2008-05-28** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2008-05-14** Ref To Com On State & Local Government `referral-committee`
- **2008-05-13** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/fef96b1d-8c2c-4469-955d-93b3e11cf790`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).