---
type: "Bill"
title: "Nonresidential Building Code."
description: "Nonresidential Building Code."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2007"
identifier: "SB 556"
citation: "North Carolina SB 556 (2007)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["BUILDING CODES", "BUILDINGS", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "MUNICIPALITIES", "PRESENTED", "PUBLIC", "RATIFIED", "SEN. KERR", "CHAPTERED", "SEN. JENKINS"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 8
action_count: 25
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2007-03-06"
last_action: "2007-08-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/788118b0-821b-4027-9842-6f4ee519a1a4"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2007&BillID=S556&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "d57ad1df4ce6905b398fcbb01498744be9553a976b039b5f948cbb29775d5141"
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 556 (2007) — Nonresidential Building Code.

## 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/S556v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/Senate/PDF/S556v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/Senate/PDF/S556v2.pdf)
4. **Edition 3** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/Senate/PDF/S556v3.pdf)
5. **Edition 4** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/Senate/PDF/S556v4.pdf)
6. **Edition 5** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/Senate/PDF/S556v5.pdf)
7. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/Senate/PDF/S556v6.pdf)
8. **SL2007-414** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/Senate/PDF/S556v7.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **113–1** (pass) · lower
- Motion 8\To Concur — **47–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Jenkins — cosponsor (person)
- Kerr — cosponsor (person)
- McKissick — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2007-08-21** Ch. SL 2007-414 `became-law`
- **2007-08-21** Signed By Gov. 8/21/2007 `executive-signature`
- **2007-08-01** Pres. To Gov. 8/1/2007 `executive-receipt`
- **2007-08-01** Ratified
- **2007-07-31** Concurred In H/com Sub `amendment-passage`
- **2007-07-30** Placed On Cal For 7/31/2007
- **2007-07-30** Rec To Concur H Com Sub
- **2007-07-28** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2007-07-28** Amend Adopted 1 `amendment-passage`
- **2007-07-27** Placed On Cal For 7/28/2007
- **2007-07-27** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2007-07-27** Reptd Fav Com Sub 2 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2007-07-26** Re-ref Com On Judiciary II `referral-committee`
- **2007-07-26** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2007-05-17** Ref to the Com on Commerce, Small Business, and Entrepreneurship and, if favorable, to the Com on Judiciary II `referral-committee`
- **2007-05-17** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2007-05-15** Engrossed
- **2007-05-15** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2007-05-10** Placed On Cal For 5/15/2007
- **2007-05-10** Withdrawn From Cal
- **2007-05-09** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2007-05-09** Amend Adopted #1 `amendment-passage`
- **2007-05-08** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2007-03-07** Ref To Com On Commerce, Small Business and Entrepreneurship `referral-committee`
- **2007-03-06** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/788118b0-821b-4027-9842-6f4ee519a1a4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).