---
type: "Bill"
title: "Fayetteville Tech. Umstead Act Exemption."
description: "Fayetteville Tech. Umstead Act Exemption."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2009"
identifier: "HB 698"
citation: "North Carolina HB 698 (2009)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES", "COMMERCE", "COMMUNITY COLLEGES", "COUNTIES", "EDUCATION", "EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES", "HIGHER EDUCATION", "MUNICIPALITIES", "PRESENTED", "PUBLIC", "RATIFIED", "SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY", "CUMBERLAND COUNTY", "FAYETTEVILLE", "CHAPTERED", "REP. DICKSON"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dickson", "Glazier", "Lucas"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2009-03-19"
last_action: "2009-06-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9e7d1eaf-bf84-4283-ac72-6cfbf04b9eca"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2009&BillID=H698&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "431c5f2d929b84bb61aae74660185aee24ab3113edaeb39898e8e8e92907aedd"
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 698 (2009) — Fayetteville Tech. Umstead Act 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/2009/Bills/House/PDF/H698v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/House/PDF/H698v1.pdf)
3. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/House/PDF/H698v2.pdf)
4. **SL2009-207** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/House/PDF/H698v3.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **110–0** (pass) · lower
- Second Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Dickson — primary (person)
- Glazier — primary (person)
- Lucas — primary (person)
- Brisson — cosponsor (person)
- E. Floyd — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2009-06-26** Ch. SL 2009-207 `became-law`
- **2009-06-26** Signed By Gov. 6/26/2009 `executive-signature`
- **2009-06-17** Pres. To Gov. 6/17/2009 `executive-receipt`
- **2009-06-16** Ratified
- **2009-06-11** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2009-06-10** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2009-05-11** Ref To Com On Education/Higher Education `referral-committee`
- **2009-05-11** Rec From House
- **2009-05-07** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2009-05-06** Placed On Cal For 5/7/2009
- **2009-05-06** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2009-05-06** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2009-04-30** Re-ref Com On Commerce, Small Business, and Entrepreneurship `referral-committee`
- **2009-04-30** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2009-04-15** Assigned To Education Subcommittee on Community Colleges `referral-committee`
- **2009-03-23** Ref to the Com on Education, if favorable, Commerce, Small Business, and Entrepreneurship `referral-committee`
- **2009-03-23** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2009-03-19** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9e7d1eaf-bf84-4283-ac72-6cfbf04b9eca`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).