---
type: "Bill"
title: "Remove Sunset/Debt Management for Consumers."
description: "Remove Sunset/Debt Management for Consumers."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2007"
identifier: "SB 197"
citation: "North Carolina SB 197 (2007)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["COMMERCE", "CONSUMER PROTECTION", "DEBTOR & CREDITOR", "FINANCIAL SERVICES", "PUBLIC", "RATIFIED", "SESSION LAWS", "TITLE CHANGE", "SUNSETS", "CHAPTERED", "SEN. DORSETT"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 5
action_count: 17
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2007-02-15"
last_action: "2007-06-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bd6dddc0-8ffc-4497-ba10-73680ca5148c"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2007&BillID=S197&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "3a6767c03692d8e893b9ae1cec525f4f68dcc9525992ef9c912cd8c2a7284fac"
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 197 (2007) — Remove Sunset/Debt Management for Consumers.

## 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/S197v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/Senate/PDF/S197v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/Senate/PDF/S197v2.pdf)
4. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/Senate/PDF/S197v3.pdf)
5. **SL2007-79** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/Senate/PDF/S197v4.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **98–0** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **115–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Allran — cosponsor (person)
- Atwater — cosponsor (person)
- Berger of Franklin — cosponsor (person)
- Berger of Rockingham — cosponsor (person)
- Bingham — cosponsor (person)
- Brown — cosponsor (person)
- Clodfelter — cosponsor (person)
- Dalton — cosponsor (person)
- Dannelly — cosponsor (person)
- Dorsett — cosponsor (person)
- Garrou — cosponsor (person)
- Goss — cosponsor (person)
- Graham — cosponsor (person)
- Hoyle — cosponsor (person)
- Jenkins — cosponsor (person)
- Jones — cosponsor (person)
- Malone — cosponsor (person)
- Nesbitt — cosponsor (person)
- Preston — cosponsor (person)
- Purcell — cosponsor (person)
- Shaw — cosponsor (person)
- Stevens — cosponsor (person)
- Tillman — cosponsor (person)
- Weinstein — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2007-06-14** Ch. SL 2007-79 `became-law`
- **2007-06-14** Signed By Gov. 6/14/2007 `executive-signature`
- **2007-06-06** Pres. To Gov. 6/6/2007 `executive-receipt`
- **2007-06-05** Ratified
- **2007-06-04** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2007-05-31** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2007-05-30** Placed On Cal For 5/31/2007
- **2007-05-30** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2007-05-30** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2007-04-19** Ref To Com On Commerce, Small Business and Entrepreneurship `referral-committee`
- **2007-04-19** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2007-04-17** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2007-04-11** Placed On Cal For 4/17/2007
- **2007-04-11** Com Substitute Adopted
- **2007-04-11** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2007-02-19** Ref To Com On Commerce, Small Business and Entrepreneurship `referral-committee`
- **2007-02-15** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/bd6dddc0-8ffc-4497-ba10-73680ca5148c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).