---
type: "Bill"
title: "Durham Unfit Dwellings."
description: "Durham Unfit Dwellings."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2007"
identifier: "SB 607"
citation: "North Carolina SB 607 (2007)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["BUILDING CODES", "BUILDINGS", "COUNTIES", "HOUSING", "LOCAL", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "MUNICIPALITIES", "RATIFIED", "SESSION LAWS", "DURHAM COUNTY", "DURHAM", "CHAPTERED", "SEN. ATWATER"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 4
action_count: 12
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2007-03-07"
last_action: "2007-07-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ce3dd122-ff16-47fc-a87c-14b1a2405683"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2007&BillID=S607&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "1bc2539fa91128e52faf3dacba3d06612ad56a355f467990a587de1bf29c830d"
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 607 (2007) — Durham Unfit Dwellings.

## 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/S607v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/Senate/PDF/S607v1.pdf)
3. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/Senate/PDF/S607v2.pdf)
4. **SL2007-219** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/Senate/PDF/S607v3.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **43–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Atwater — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2007-07-16** Ch. SL 2007-219 `became-law`
- **2007-07-16** Ratified
- **2007-07-12** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2007-07-11** Placed On Cal For 7/12/2007
- **2007-07-11** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2007-07-11** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2007-04-24** Ref To Com On Local Government II `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** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2007-03-12** Ref To Com On State & Local Government `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/ce3dd122-ff16-47fc-a87c-14b1a2405683`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).