---
type: "Bill"
title: "Wentworth Tax Cap."
description: "Wentworth Tax Cap."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2007"
identifier: "SB 604"
citation: "North Carolina SB 604 (2007)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CHARTERS", "LOCAL", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "MUNICIPALITIES", "PROPERTY", "RATIFIED", "REAL ESTATE", "SESSION LAWS", "TAXATION", "TAXES", "PROPERTY", "CHAPTERED", "WENTWORTH", "SEN. P. BERGER"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 5
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2007-03-07"
last_action: "2007-08-02"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1de99925-74ef-4fa9-9f51-b10c9de07c3e"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2007&BillID=S604&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "54ebf0ef49befc744ca6c4d10a41a5e4d60e00b9ef4cd94606e6f9b031462719"
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 604 (2007) — Wentworth Tax Cap.

## 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/S604v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/Senate/PDF/S604v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/Senate/PDF/S604v2.pdf)
4. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/Senate/PDF/S604v3.pdf)
5. **SL2007-338** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/Senate/PDF/S604v4.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **111–0** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **102–10** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Berger of Rockingham — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2007-08-02** Ch. SL 2007-338 `became-law`
- **2007-08-02** Ratified
- **2007-08-02** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2007-08-01** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2007-07-31** Placed On Cal For 8/1/2007
- **2007-07-31** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2007-07-31** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2007-05-16** Ref To Com On Finance `referral-committee`
- **2007-05-16** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2007-05-14** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2007-05-10** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2007-05-09** Com Substitute Adopted
- **2007-05-09** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2007-03-12** Ref To Com On Finance `referral-committee`
- **2007-03-07** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1de99925-74ef-4fa9-9f51-b10c9de07c3e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).