---
type: "Bill"
title: "Local Government Property Transactions."
description: "Local Government Property Transactions."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2009"
identifier: "HB 502"
citation: "North Carolina HB 502 (2009)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES", "COMMUNITY COLLEGES", "COUNTIES", "EDUCATION", "HIGHER EDUCATION", "LOCAL", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "MUNICIPALITIES", "PROPERTY", "RATIFIED", "SESSION LAWS", "TITLE CHANGE", "BEAUFORT COUNTY", "BUNCOMBE COUNTY", "ASHEVILLE", "CHAPTERED", "REP. GOFORTH", "REP. WHILDEN"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Goforth", "Whilden"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2009-03-05"
last_action: "2009-06-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9a37f3ce-e2b6-4a35-a2da-5b47839de71b"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2009&BillID=H502&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "b4057e9136fdf682b847a4981d4a6dfd27cbb7f61fcda27ea7d50ffceb5643fe"
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 502 (2009) — Local Government Property Transactions.

## 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/H502v0.pdf)
2. **A1: ALB-71-V-2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://webservices.ncleg.net/ViewBillDocument/2009/375/0/H502-ALB-71-V-2)
3. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/House/PDF/H502v1.pdf)
4. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/House/PDF/H502v2.pdf)
5. **SL2009-168** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/House/PDF/H502v3.pdf)

## Votes

- Sen. Amend. #1\M11 Concur — **114–1** (pass) · lower
- Second Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Goforth — primary (person)
- Whilden — primary (person)
- Fisher — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2009-06-25** Ch. SL 2009-168 `became-law`
- **2009-06-25** Ratified
- **2009-06-25** Concurred In S Amend 1 `amendment-passage`
- **2009-06-24** Placed On Cal For 6/25/2009
- **2009-06-24** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2009-06-24** Reptd Fav To Concur `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2009-06-16** Ref To Com On Local Government I `referral-committee`
- **2009-06-16** Rec To Concur In S Amend
- **2009-06-11** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2009-06-11** Amend Adopted #1 `amendment-passage`
- **2009-06-10** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2009-04-06** Ref To Com On State and Local Government `referral-committee`
- **2009-04-06** Rec From House
- **2009-04-02** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2009-04-01** Placed On Cal For 4/2/2009
- **2009-04-01** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2009-04-01** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2009-03-09** Ref To Com On Local Government 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/9a37f3ce-e2b6-4a35-a2da-5b47839de71b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).