---
type: "Bill"
title: "City/County Energy Efficiency Incentive."
description: "City/County Energy Efficiency Incentive."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2007"
identifier: "SB 1597"
citation: "North Carolina SB 1597 (2007)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CONSERVATION", "CONSTRUCTION", "COUNTIES", "ENVIRONMENT", "HOUSING", "LOCAL", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "MUNICIPALITIES", "PLANNING & ZONING", "PROPERTY", "RATIFIED", "SESSION LAWS", "TITLE CHANGE", "WAKE COUNTY", "STANLY COUNTY", "POLYSOMNOGRAPHY ADVISORY COMM.", "MIDLAND", "ROWAN COUNTY", "CARY", "CONCORD", "CHAPTERED", "KANNAPOLIS", "MOUNT PLEASANT", "SEN. STEVENS", "LOCUST", "STANFIELD", "SEN. COWELL", "HARRISBURG", "CABARRUS COUNTY"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 6
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2008-05-14"
last_action: "2008-06-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fac48643-42cc-47d1-a85d-ee73b912f281"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2007&BillID=S1597&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "2feb5662f049b77a7ac06e99075276007752f6fafbf31dda05241a8de3c35d0a"
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 1597 (2007) — City/County Energy Efficiency Incentive.

## 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/S1597v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/Senate/PDF/S1597v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/Senate/PDF/S1597v2.pdf)
4. **Edition 3** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/Senate/PDF/S1597v3.pdf)
5. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/Senate/PDF/S1597v4.pdf)
6. **SL2008-22** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/Senate/PDF/S1597v5.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **115–0** (pass) · lower
- Motion 8\To Concur — **47–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

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

## Timeline

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

- **2008-06-30** Ch. SL 2008-22 `became-law`
- **2008-06-30** Ratified
- **2008-06-26** Concurred In H/com Sub `amendment-passage`
- **2008-06-25** Placed On Cal For 6/26/2008
- **2008-06-25** Rec To Concur H Com Sub
- **2008-06-24** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2008-06-23** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2008-06-23** Amend Adopted 2 `amendment-passage`
- **2008-06-23** Amend Adopted 1 `amendment-passage`
- **2008-06-19** Placed On Cal For 6/23/2008
- **2008-06-19** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2008-06-19** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2008-06-03** Ref To Com On Local Government II `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`
- **2008-05-15** Ref To Com On State & Local Government `referral-committee`
- **2008-05-14** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/fac48643-42cc-47d1-a85d-ee73b912f281`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).