---
type: "Bill"
title: "Clarify Local Government Evacuation Authority."
description: "Clarify Local Government Evacuation Authority."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2009"
identifier: "SB 256"
citation: "North Carolina SB 256 (2009)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["COUNTIES", "DISASTERS & EMERGENCIES", "EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "MUNICIPALITIES", "PRESENTED", "PUBLIC", "RATIFIED", "TITLE CHANGE", "LIABILITY", "CHAPTERED", "SEN. NESBITT", "SEN. ATWATER", "SEN. SNOW", "SEN. GOSS"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 7
action_count: 22
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2009-02-19"
last_action: "2009-06-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ff4c7813-eb85-4660-96d0-b05ffbf3732a"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2009&BillID=S256&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "ae71381b96aa7e2fc2ad79646c20f279e95245a1eadbd8ef3f8d24ef0af44edf"
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 256 (2009) — Clarify Local Government Evacuation Authority.

## 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/S256v0.pdf)
2. **A1: ARW-8-V-3** (committee substitute) — [source](https://webservices.ncleg.net/ViewBillDocument/2009/1658/0/S256-ARW-8-V-3)
3. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/Senate/PDF/S256v1.pdf)
4. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/Senate/PDF/S256v2.pdf)
5. **Edition 3** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/Senate/PDF/S256v3.pdf)
6. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/Senate/PDF/S256v4.pdf)
7. **SL2009-146** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/Senate/PDF/S256v5.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **114–1** (pass) · lower
- Second Reading — **49–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Atwater — cosponsor (person)
- Goss — cosponsor (person)
- Nesbitt — cosponsor (person)
- Snow — cosponsor (person)
- Swindell — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2009-06-22** Ch. SL 2009-146 `became-law`
- **2009-06-22** Signed By Gov. 6/19/2009 `executive-signature`
- **2009-06-10** Pres. To Gov. 6/10/2009 `executive-receipt`
- **2009-06-09** Ratified
- **2009-06-08** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2009-06-04** Placed On Cal For 6/8/2009
- **2009-06-04** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2009-06-04** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2009-05-06** Re-ref Com On Judiciary I `referral-committee`
- **2009-05-06** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2009-04-09** Ref to the Com on Homeland Security, Military, and Veterans Affairs, if favorable, Judiciary I `referral-committee`
- **2009-04-09** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2009-04-07** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2009-04-07** Amend Adopted #1 `amendment-passage`
- **2009-04-02** Placed On Cal For 4/7/2009
- **2009-04-02** Withdrawn From Cal
- **2009-04-01** Placed On Cal For 4/6/2009
- **2009-04-01** Withdrawn From Cal
- **2009-03-31** Com Substitute Adopted
- **2009-03-31** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2009-02-23** Ref To Com On Judiciary I `referral-committee`
- **2009-02-19** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ff4c7813-eb85-4660-96d0-b05ffbf3732a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).