---
type: "Bill"
title: "Certain Local Governments' Investments."
description: "Certain Local Governments' Investments."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2007"
identifier: "SB 221"
citation: "North Carolina SB 221 (2007)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CHARTERS", "CITY COUNCILS", "COUNTIES", "INVESTMENTS", "LOCAL", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "MUNICIPALITIES", "RATIFIED", "TITLE CHANGE", "WAKE COUNTY", "MECKLENBURG COUNTY", "CHARLOTTE", "GUILFORD COUNTY", "GREENSBORO", "RALEIGH", "CHAPTERED", "SEN. GOODALL"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 7
action_count: 23
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2007-02-20"
last_action: "2007-07-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d523c654-5c32-4656-99cc-c627e55003d2"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2007&BillID=S221&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "04c48d69c0f41b27cc55bf9eaab033fe67a730cb2f2c2981aa5fec9888e5a854"
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 221 (2007) — Certain Local Governments' Investments.

## 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/S221v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/Senate/PDF/S221v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/Senate/PDF/S221v2.pdf)
4. **Edition 3** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/Senate/PDF/S221v3.pdf)
5. **Edition 4** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/Senate/PDF/S221v4.pdf)
6. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/Senate/PDF/S221v5.pdf)
7. **SL2007-255** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/Senate/PDF/S221v6.pdf)

## Votes

- Motion 8\To Concur — **47–0** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **107–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Dannelly — cosponsor (person)
- Goodall — cosponsor (person)
- Graham — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2007-07-23** Ch. SL 2007-255 `became-law`
- **2007-07-23** Ratified
- **2007-07-19** Concurred In H/com Sub `amendment-passage`
- **2007-07-18** Placed On Cal For 7/19/2007
- **2007-07-18** Rec To Concur H Com Sub
- **2007-07-17** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2007-07-16** Postponed To 7/17/2007
- **2007-07-16** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2007-07-12** Placed On Cal For 7/16/2007
- **2007-07-12** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2007-07-12** Reptd Fav Com Sub 2 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2007-06-11** Re-ref Com On Local Government I `referral-committee`
- **2007-06-11** Withdrawn From Cal
- **2007-06-07** Placed On Cal For 6/11/2007
- **2007-06-07** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2007-06-07** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2007-04-24** Ref To Com On Local Government I `referral-committee`
- **2007-04-24** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2007-04-19** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2007-04-18** Com Substitute Adopted
- **2007-04-18** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2007-02-21** Ref To Com On State & Local Government `referral-committee`
- **2007-02-20** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d523c654-5c32-4656-99cc-c627e55003d2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).