---
type: "Bill"
title: "ABC Election-Cities in Two Counties."
description: "ABC Election-Cities in Two Counties."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2007"
identifier: "SB 661"
citation: "North Carolina SB 661 (2007)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES", "COUNTIES", "ELECTIONS", "FOOD SERVICES", "FOODS & BEVERAGES", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "MUNICIPALITIES", "PRESENTED", "PUBLIC", "RATIFIED", "REFERENDUMS & INITIATIVES", "SEN. PURCELL", "CHAPTERED"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 4
action_count: 17
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2007-03-08"
last_action: "2007-08-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b025bbe2-5e24-4bf0-84a5-c61cce02ec91"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2007&BillID=S661&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "e7566458b677eb5837c7031fff6fcbc00a16b5f8f2f240c22e245a94e22b5ec7"
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 661 (2007) — ABC Election-Cities in Two Counties.

## 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/S661v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/Senate/PDF/S661v1.pdf)
3. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/Senate/PDF/S661v2.pdf)
4. **SL2007-386** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/Senate/PDF/S661v3.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **31–14** (pass) · upper
- Second Reading — **93–16** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Purcell — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2007-08-19** Ch. SL 2007-386 `became-law`
- **2007-08-19** Signed By Gov. 8/19/2007 `executive-signature`
- **2007-07-28** Pres. To Gov. 7/28/2007 `executive-receipt`
- **2007-07-28** Ratified
- **2007-07-27** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2007-07-25** Placed On Cal For 7/26/2007
- **2007-07-25** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2007-07-25** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2007-06-26** Re-ref Com On Election Law and Campaign Finance Reform `referral-committee`
- **2007-06-26** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2007-05-22** Ref to the Com on Alcoholic Beverage Control and, if favorable, to the Com on Election Law and Campaign Finance Reform `referral-committee`
- **2007-05-22** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2007-05-17** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2007-05-16** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2007-05-15** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2007-03-12** Ref To Com On Commerce, Small Business and Entrepreneurship `referral-committee`
- **2007-03-08** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b025bbe2-5e24-4bf0-84a5-c61cce02ec91`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).