---
type: "Bill"
title: "Mecklenburg County Carpooling Exemption."
description: "Mecklenburg County Carpooling Exemption."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2007"
identifier: "SB 617"
citation: "North Carolina SB 617 (2007)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["COUNTIES", "EMPLOYMENT", "LOCAL", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "MOTOR VEHICLES", "PERSONNEL", "PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION", "RATIFIED", "TRANSPORTATION", "MECKLENBURG COUNTY", "CHAPTERED", "SEN. GOODALL"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 5
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2007-03-07"
last_action: "2007-06-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3ef0b1b4-85d0-4cde-a33a-59e7e54dbf0c"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2007&BillID=S617&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "f95d3e0582ca8c986d4aa4e71407616581f4501def065818a8953d1b6ad605eb"
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 617 (2007) — Mecklenburg County Carpooling Exemption.

## 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/S617v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/Senate/PDF/S617v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/Senate/PDF/S617v2.pdf)
4. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/Senate/PDF/S617v3.pdf)
5. **SL2007-136** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/Senate/PDF/S617v4.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **118–0** (pass) · lower
- Second Reading — **44–2** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Goodall — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2007-06-28** Ch. SL 2007-136 `became-law`
- **2007-06-28** Ratified
- **2007-06-27** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2007-06-26** Placed On Cal For 6/27/2007
- **2007-06-26** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2007-06-26** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2007-06-06** Re-ref Com On Energy and Energy Efficiency `referral-committee`
- **2007-06-06** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2007-05-22** Ref to the Com on Local Government I and, if favorable, to the Com on Energy and Energy Efficiency `referral-committee`
- **2007-05-22** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2007-05-17** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2007-05-16** Com Substitute Adopted
- **2007-05-16** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2007-04-19** Re-ref Com On State & Local Government `referral-committee`
- **2007-04-19** Withdrawn From Cal
- **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/3ef0b1b4-85d0-4cde-a33a-59e7e54dbf0c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).