---
type: "Bill"
title: "Chadbourn Mayor Four-Year Term."
description: "Chadbourn Mayor Four-Year Term."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2007"
identifier: "SB 381"
citation: "North Carolina SB 381 (2007)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CHARTERS", "COUNTIES", "LOCAL", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "MAYORS", "MUNICIPALITIES", "PUBLIC OFFICIALS", "RATIFIED", "SESSION LAWS", "TERM LENGTHS & LIMITS", "SEN. SOLES", "COLUMBUS COUNTY", "CHADBOURN", "CHAPTERED"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 5
action_count: 13
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2007-02-27"
last_action: "2007-07-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f87d4cb4-7180-4288-9400-97e864418cd3"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2007&BillID=S381&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "b7d3c4b2311ee2eebb59e32763dcaed7b2bac0cfd1cb845161d9604db9c84d11"
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 381 (2007) — Chadbourn Mayor Four-Year Term.

## 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/S381v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/Senate/PDF/S381v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/Senate/PDF/S381v2.pdf)
4. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/Senate/PDF/S381v3.pdf)
5. **SL2007-271** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/Senate/PDF/S381v4.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Soles — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2007-07-27** Ch. SL 2007-271 `became-law`
- **2007-07-27** Ratified
- **2007-07-26** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2007-07-25** Placed On Cal For 7/26/2007
- **2007-07-25** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2007-07-25** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2007-04-03** Ref To Com On Local Government II `referral-committee`
- **2007-04-03** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2007-03-29** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2007-03-28** Com Substitute Adopted
- **2007-03-28** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2007-02-28** Ref To Com On State & Local Government `referral-committee`
- **2007-02-27** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f87d4cb4-7180-4288-9400-97e864418cd3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).