---
type: "Bill"
title: "Rocky Mount/Fair Housing Ordinance."
description: "Rocky Mount/Fair Housing Ordinance."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2009"
identifier: "HB 459"
citation: "North Carolina HB 459 (2009)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CHARTERS", "COUNTIES", "DISCRIMINATION", "HOUSING", "LOCAL", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "MUNICIPALITIES", "RATIFIED", "NASH COUNTY", "ROCKY MOUNT", "CHAPTERED", "REP. FARMER-BUTTERFIELD", "REP. BRYANT", "REP. STEWART"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bryant", "Farmer-Butterfield"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 22
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2009-03-05"
last_action: "2009-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b753b703-238c-4756-8ea8-117b023cc85c"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2009&BillID=H459&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "01d240b5b8b14beff57ff027620744e2c1abc5ef93da4c6ffe7b29659a15decc"
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 HB 459 (2009) — Rocky Mount/Fair Housing Ordinance.

## 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/2009/Bills/House/PDF/H459v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/House/PDF/H459v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/House/PDF/H459v2.pdf)
4. **Edition 3** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/House/PDF/H459v3.pdf)
5. **Edition 4** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/House/PDF/H459v4.pdf)
6. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/House/PDF/H459v5.pdf)
7. **SL2009-74** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/House/PDF/H459v6.pdf)

## Votes

- M11 Concur — **116–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Bryant — primary (person)
- Farmer-Butterfield — primary (person)
- Hughes — cosponsor (person)
- Stewart — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2009-06-11** Ch. SL 2009-74 `became-law`
- **2009-06-11** Ratified
- **2009-06-10** Concurred In S/Com Sub `amendment-passage`
- **2009-06-09** Placed On Cal For 6/10/2009
- **2009-06-09** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2009-06-09** Rec To Concur S Com Sub
- **2009-06-04** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2009-06-03** Com Substitute Adopted
- **2009-06-03** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2009-04-16** Ref To Com On State and Local Government `referral-committee`
- **2009-04-16** Rec From House
- **2009-04-15** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2009-04-14** Placed On Cal For 4/15/2009
- **2009-04-14** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2009-04-14** Reptd Fav Com Sub 2 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2009-03-25** Re-ref Com On Judiciary I `referral-committee`
- **2009-03-25** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2009-03-12** Re-ref Com On Local Government II `referral-committee`
- **2009-03-12** Withdrawn From Com
- **2009-03-09** Ref to the Com on Local Government I, if favorable, Judiciary I `referral-committee`
- **2009-03-09** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2009-03-05** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b753b703-238c-4756-8ea8-117b023cc85c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).