---
type: "Bill"
title: "Chatham Recreation Exaction Fee."
description: "Chatham Recreation Exaction Fee."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2007"
identifier: "SB 609"
citation: "North Carolina SB 609 (2007)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["COUNTIES", "LOCAL", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "PARKS & RECREATION AREAS", "RATIFIED", "CHATHAM COUNTY", "CHAPTERED", "SEN. ATWATER"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 5
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2007-03-07"
last_action: "2007-08-02"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e2cf752b-2d58-452b-bffb-8a785bb32883"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2007&BillID=S609&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "bf7277d1a7352b369b7297da0c03bb753981cdb5686159de055501b6fe921831"
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 609 (2007) — Chatham Recreation Exaction Fee.

## 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/S609v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/Senate/PDF/S609v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/Senate/PDF/S609v2.pdf)
4. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/Senate/PDF/S609v3.pdf)
5. **SL2007-339** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/Senate/PDF/S609v4.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **102–10** (pass) · lower
- Second Reading — **94–13** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Atwater — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2007-08-02** Ch. SL 2007-339 `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`
- **2007-07-27** Ref To Com On Finance `referral-committee`
- **2007-07-27** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2007-07-27** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2007-07-26** Com Substitute Adopted
- **2007-07-26** 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/e2cf752b-2d58-452b-bffb-8a785bb32883`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).