---
type: "Bill"
title: "Zoning/Durham County Protest Petitions."
description: "Zoning/Durham County Protest Petitions."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2009"
identifier: "SB 1399"
citation: "North Carolina SB 1399 (2009)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["COUNTIES", "LOCAL", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "PLANNING & ZONING", "PROPERTY", "RATIFIED", "DURHAM COUNTY", "CHAPTERED", "SEN. ATWATER", "SEN. MCKISSICK"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 5
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2010-05-25"
last_action: "2010-07-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/37c5a79b-09ca-4554-a77a-3df29cda5d1f"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2009&BillID=S1399&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "ad809f1f4baada054b8fbb79d966f441c7a36ca1fb769fe7110c4cfc3b76fe86"
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 1399 (2009) — Zoning/Durham County Protest Petitions.

## 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/S1399v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/Senate/PDF/S1399v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/Senate/PDF/S1399v2.pdf)
4. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/Senate/PDF/S1399v3.pdf)
5. **SL2010-80** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/Senate/PDF/S1399v4.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **50–0** (pass) · upper
- Motion 8\To Concur — **48–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Atwater — cosponsor (person)
- McKissick — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2010-07-09** Ch. SL 2010-80 `became-law`
- **2010-07-09** Ratified
- **2010-07-08** Concurred In H/com Sub `amendment-passage`
- **2010-07-08** Placed On Cal For 7/8/2010
- **2010-07-08** Rec To Concur H Com Sub
- **2010-07-08** Rec From House
- **2010-07-08** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2010-07-07** Placed On Cal For 7/8/2010
- **2010-07-07** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2010-07-07** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2010-06-29** Re-ref Com On Ways and Means/Broadband Connectivity `referral-committee`
- **2010-06-29** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2010-06-14** Ref to the Com on Judiciary I, if favorable, Ways and Means/Broadband Connectivity `referral-committee`
- **2010-06-14** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2010-06-09** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2010-06-08** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2010-05-26** Ref To Com On State and Local Government `referral-committee`
- **2010-05-25** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/37c5a79b-09ca-4554-a77a-3df29cda5d1f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).