---
type: "Bill"
title: "Summerfield Council Replacement."
description: "Summerfield Council Replacement."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2007"
identifier: "SB 2137"
citation: "North Carolina SB 2137 (2007)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CHARTERS", "CITY COUNCILS", "COUNTIES", "LOCAL", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "MUNICIPALITIES", "PUBLIC OFFICIALS", "RATIFIED", "SESSION LAWS", "GUILFORD COUNTY", "CHAPTERED", "SEN. P. BERGER", "SUMMERFIELD"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 4
action_count: 12
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2008-05-28"
last_action: "2008-07-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b8d94f4b-965e-4d72-b3be-d81a906563f2"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2007&BillID=S2137&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "c134e7982e6271d41eba874c1cd800b02dab523c178dd9debb41085267c32e5e"
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 2137 (2007) — Summerfield Council Replacement.

## 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/S2137v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/Senate/PDF/S2137v1.pdf)
3. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/Senate/PDF/S2137v2.pdf)
4. **SL2008-61** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/Senate/PDF/S2137v3.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **108–0** (pass) · lower
- Second Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Berger of Rockingham — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2008-07-07** Ch. SL 2008-61 `became-law`
- **2008-07-07** Ratified
- **2008-07-03** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2008-07-02** Placed On Cal For 7/3/2008
- **2008-07-02** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2008-07-02** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2008-06-16** Ref To Com On Local Government II `referral-committee`
- **2008-06-16** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2008-06-11** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2008-06-10** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2008-05-29** Ref To Com On State & Local Government `referral-committee`
- **2008-05-28** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b8d94f4b-965e-4d72-b3be-d81a906563f2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).