---
type: "Bill"
title: "No Deceptive Advertising/Business Location."
description: "No Deceptive Advertising/Business Location."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2009"
identifier: "SB 625"
citation: "North Carolina SB 625 (2009)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ADVERTISING", "AGRICULTURE", "COMMERCE", "COMMUNICATIONS", "CORPORATIONS", "FOR-PROFIT", "PRESENTED", "PRODUCE", "PUBLIC", "RATIFIED", "CHAPTERED", "SEN. BOSEMAN"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 4
action_count: 17
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2009-03-16"
last_action: "2009-06-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/36126b99-8595-48e9-8c25-c02111af5341"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2009&BillID=S625&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "bd06eef332acd34e218428e9ce7e3b48b580e49388211f9abfd3676e31b0e179"
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 625 (2009) — No Deceptive Advertising/Business Location.

## 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/S625v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/Senate/PDF/S625v1.pdf)
3. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/Senate/PDF/S625v2.pdf)
4. **SL2009-199** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/Senate/PDF/S625v3.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **109–2** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **116–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Boseman — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2009-06-26** Ch. SL 2009-199 `became-law`
- **2009-06-26** Signed By Gov. 6/26/2009 `executive-signature`
- **2009-06-22** Pres. To Gov. 6/19/2009 `executive-receipt`
- **2009-06-18** Ratified
- **2009-06-17** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2009-06-16** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2009-06-12** Placed On Cal For 6/16/2009
- **2009-06-11** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2009-06-11** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2009-05-27** Re-ref Com On Judiciary II `referral-committee`
- **2009-05-27** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2009-04-23** Ref to the Com on Commerce, Small Business, and Entrepreneurship, if favorable, Judiciary II `referral-committee`
- **2009-04-23** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2009-04-21** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2009-04-20** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2009-03-17** Ref To Com On Commerce `referral-committee`
- **2009-03-16** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/36126b99-8595-48e9-8c25-c02111af5341`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).