---
type: "Bill"
title: "Low-Risk Probationers May Be Unsupervised."
description: "Low-Risk Probationers May Be Unsupervised."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2009"
identifier: "SB 1089"
citation: "North Carolina SB 1089 (2009)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["PAROLE & PROBATION", "PRESENTED", "INMATES", "PUBLIC", "RATIFIED", "SENTENCING", "SEN. KINNAIRD", "CHAPTERED", "SEN. SNOW"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 6
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2009-03-26"
last_action: "2009-07-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1805d330-6eb9-4483-b896-049093003375"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2009&BillID=S1089&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "aefb78a3c02bc46cae94c716152f3ee49b8ba74024236f3bfef76d0467f8ecfd"
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 1089 (2009) — Low-Risk Probationers May Be Unsupervised.

## 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/Senate/PDF/S1089v0.pdf)
2. **A1: ALL-18-V-2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://webservices.ncleg.net/ViewBillDocument/2009/2510/0/S1089-ALL-18-V-2)
3. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/Senate/PDF/S1089v1.pdf)
4. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/Senate/PDF/S1089v2.pdf)
5. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/Senate/PDF/S1089v3.pdf)
6. **SL2009-275** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/Senate/PDF/S1089v4.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **46–1** (pass) · upper
- Second Reading — **112–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Atwater — cosponsor (person)
- Kinnaird — cosponsor (person)
- Snow — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2009-07-10** Ch. SL 2009-275 `became-law`
- **2009-07-10** Signed By Gov. 7/10/2009 `executive-signature`
- **2009-07-08** Pres. To Gov. 7/8/2009 `executive-receipt`
- **2009-07-07** Ratified
- **2009-07-02** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2009-07-01** Placed On Cal For 7/2/2009
- **2009-06-30** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2009-06-30** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2009-06-18** Re-ref Com On Judiciary III `referral-committee`
- **2009-06-18** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2009-05-18** Ref to the Com on Ways and Means/Broadband Connectivity, if favorable, Judiciary III `referral-committee`
- **2009-05-18** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2009-05-13** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2009-05-13** Amend Adopted #1 `amendment-passage`
- **2009-05-11** Placed On Cal For 5/13/2009
- **2009-05-11** Withdrawn From Cal
- **2009-05-07** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2009-03-31** Ref To Com On Judiciary II `referral-committee`
- **2009-03-26** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1805d330-6eb9-4483-b896-049093003375`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).