---
type: "Bill"
title: "Durham Motor Vehicle Levy."
description: "Durham Motor Vehicle Levy."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2009"
identifier: "SB 543"
citation: "North Carolina SB 543 (2009)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["BUDGETING", "CHARTERS", "COUNTIES", "FUNDING", "LOCAL", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "MOTOR VEHICLES", "MUNICIPALITIES", "PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION", "RATIFIED", "SESSION LAWS", "TAXATION", "TAXES", "MOTOR VEHICLE", "TRANSPORTATION", "DURHAM COUNTY", "DURHAM", "FAIR BLUFF", "CHAPTERED", "SEN. MCKISSICK"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 6
action_count: 21
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2009-03-11"
last_action: "2009-06-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/dab36d29-aef5-473c-b695-d3ac0e436f5a"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2009&BillID=S543&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "ce666b104447dfd2acf2dcbf74b902cc3e14acc86fe52751d9313a79f27b65c6"
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 543 (2009) — Durham Motor Vehicle Levy.

## 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/S543v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/Senate/PDF/S543v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/Senate/PDF/S543v2.pdf)
4. **Edition 3** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/Senate/PDF/S543v3.pdf)
5. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/Senate/PDF/S543v4.pdf)
6. **SL2009-166** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/Senate/PDF/S543v5.pdf)

## Votes

- Motion 8\To Concur — **36–10** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **84–32** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

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

## Timeline

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

- **2009-06-25** Ch. SL 2009-166 `became-law`
- **2009-06-25** Ratified
- **2009-06-24** Concurred In H/com Sub `amendment-passage`
- **2009-06-23** Placed On Cal For 6/24/2009
- **2009-06-23** Rec To Concur H Com Sub
- **2009-06-22** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2009-06-18** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2009-06-17** Placed On Cal For 6/18/2009
- **2009-06-17** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2009-06-17** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2009-06-10** Re-ref Com On Finance `referral-committee`
- **2009-06-10** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2009-04-13** Ref to the Com on Local Government II, if favorable, Finance `referral-committee`
- **2009-04-13** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2009-04-08** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2009-04-07** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **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`
- **2009-03-12** Ref To Com On Finance `referral-committee`
- **2009-03-11** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/dab36d29-aef5-473c-b695-d3ac0e436f5a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).