---
type: "Bill"
title: "Amend Highlands Scholarship Fund."
description: "Amend Highlands Scholarship Fund."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2009"
identifier: "SB 1359"
citation: "North Carolina SB 1359 (2009)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["COUNTIES", "EDUCATION", "HIGHER EDUCATION", "LOCAL", "MUNICIPALITIES", "RATIFIED", "SECONDARY EDUCATION", "SESSION LAWS", "TUITION", "HIGHLANDS", "MACON COUNTY", "CHAPTERED", "SEN. SNOW", "SCHOLARSHIPS"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 5
action_count: 22
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2010-05-24"
last_action: "2010-06-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/10ba0ea2-9e31-4d4b-9a64-ed9c922d57cb"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2009&BillID=S1359&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "e2eaac2fa27ae080a3cecd32ee60775399957e17100cf12b78da4a7ce7eb2cde"
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 1359 (2009) — Amend Highlands Scholarship Fund.

## 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/S1359v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/Senate/PDF/S1359v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/Senate/PDF/S1359v2.pdf)
4. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/Senate/PDF/S1359v3.pdf)
5. **SL2010-9** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/Senate/PDF/S1359v4.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading\Motion 6\To Reconsider — **49–0** (pass) · upper
- Second Reading — **50–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Snow — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2010-06-23** Ch. SL 2010-9 `became-law`
- **2010-06-22** Ratified
- **2010-06-21** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2010-06-17** Placed On Cal For 6/21/2010
- **2010-06-16** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2010-06-16** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2010-06-14** Ref To Com On Local Government I `referral-committee`
- **2010-06-14** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2010-06-09** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2010-06-09** Reconsidered 2nd Reading
- **2010-06-09** Placed On Cal For 6/9/2010
- **2010-06-09** Withdrawn From Com
- **2010-06-08** Re-ref Com On Education/Higher Education `referral-committee`
- **2010-06-08** Withdrawn From Cal
- **2010-06-08** Reconsidered 3rd Reading
- **2010-06-08** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2010-06-03** Placed On Cal For 6/8/2010
- **2010-06-03** Withdrawn From Cal
- **2010-06-02** Com Substitute Adopted
- **2010-06-02** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2010-05-25** Ref To Com On Education/Higher Education `referral-committee`
- **2010-05-24** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/10ba0ea2-9e31-4d4b-9a64-ed9c922d57cb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).