---
type: "Bill"
title: "Swain Settlement Funds."
description: "Swain Settlement Funds."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2007"
identifier: "SB 1646"
citation: "North Carolina SB 1646 (2007)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["COUNTIES", "COUNTY COMMISSIONERS", "ELECTIONS", "FUNDS & ACCOUNTS", "INFRASTRUCTURE", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "PRESENTED", "PUBLIC", "RATIFIED", "REFERENDUMS & INITIATIVES", "ROADS & HIGHWAYS", "TRANSPORTATION", "SWAIN COUNTY", "CHAPTERED", "SEN. SNOW"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 5
action_count: 17
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2008-05-19"
last_action: "2008-06-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8ed2f345-6995-4f94-9065-b9e2b1f2a2f6"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2007&BillID=S1646&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "340038d88e396b41a95c75c8924d5e559803491f157a1e0063cb6e78b0c9bcd5"
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 1646 (2007) — Swain Settlement Funds.

## 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/S1646v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/Senate/PDF/S1646v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/Senate/PDF/S1646v2.pdf)
4. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/Senate/PDF/S1646v3.pdf)
5. **SL2008-13** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/Senate/PDF/S1646v4.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **111–0** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **45–4** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Snow — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2008-06-25** Ch. SL 2008-13 `became-law`
- **2008-06-25** Signed By Gov. 6/25/2008 `executive-signature`
- **2008-06-18** Pres. To Gov. 6/18/2008 `executive-receipt`
- **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`
- **2008-06-11** Re-ref Com On Judiciary III `referral-committee`
- **2008-06-11** Withdrawn From Comm
- **2008-05-21** Ref to the Com on Local Government II, if favorable, Judiciary III `referral-committee`
- **2008-05-21** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2008-05-20** Engrossed
- **2008-05-20** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2008-05-20** Amend Adopted #1 `amendment-passage`
- **2008-05-19** Placed On Cal For 5/20/2008
- **2008-05-19** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8ed2f345-6995-4f94-9065-b9e2b1f2a2f6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).