---
type: "Bill"
title: "Increase Mecklenburg Force Account Limit."
description: "Increase Mecklenburg Force Account Limit."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2009"
identifier: "SB 437"
citation: "North Carolina SB 437 (2009)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["BIDS & BIDDING", "CONTRACTS", "COUNTIES", "LOCAL", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "DEBT/LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "PURCHASING", "RATIFIED", "MECKLENBURG COUNTY", "CHAPTERED", "SEN. GOODALL"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 5
action_count: 16
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2009-03-05"
last_action: "2009-07-02"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f5fa8f5a-2e3b-4778-ad07-189544f5790b"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2009&BillID=S437&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "5851fcc09368bc3c4d1259407ba26a7a15dfabf912d8fd427dd60aa06f747a73"
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 437 (2009) — Increase Mecklenburg Force Account Limit.

## 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/S437v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/Senate/PDF/S437v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/Senate/PDF/S437v2.pdf)
4. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/Senate/PDF/S437v3.pdf)
5. **SL2009-250** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/Senate/PDF/S437v4.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **116–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Goodall — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2009-07-02** Ch. SL 2009-250 `became-law`
- **2009-07-02** Ratified
- **2009-07-01** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2009-06-30** Placed On Cal For 7/1/2009
- **2009-06-30** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2009-06-30** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2009-05-27** Re-ref Com On Judiciary II `referral-committee`
- **2009-05-27** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2009-04-09** Ref to the Com on Local Government II, if favorable, Judiciary II `referral-committee`
- **2009-04-09** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2009-04-07** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2009-04-02** Placed On Cal For 4/7/2009
- **2009-04-02** Com Substitute Adopted
- **2009-04-02** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2009-03-09** Ref To Com On Finance `referral-committee`
- **2009-03-05** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f5fa8f5a-2e3b-4778-ad07-189544f5790b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).