---
type: "Bill"
title: "ABC Stores/School/Guilford."
description: "ABC Stores/School/Guilford."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2009"
identifier: "SB 68"
citation: "North Carolina SB 68 (2009)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ABC COMN.", "ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES", "BUILDINGS", "COMMISSIONS", "LICENSES & PERMITS", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "PLANNING & ZONING", "PUBLIC", "RATIFIED", "SCHOOL BUILDINGS", "TITLE CHANGE", "CHAPTERED", "SEN. DORSETT"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 6
action_count: 22
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2009-02-04"
last_action: "2009-07-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a5fc49e7-86f5-481e-9339-ee105c118ac4"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2009&BillID=S68&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "ad62ebb3fc2b2276a86ba0ee72124d0a3ca211ac7b36d88f1bbdfa78b79f6686"
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 68 (2009) — ABC Stores/School/Guilford.

## 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/S68v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/Senate/PDF/S68v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/Senate/PDF/S68v2.pdf)
4. **Edition 3** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/Senate/PDF/S68v3.pdf)
5. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/Senate/PDF/S68v4.pdf)
6. **SL2009-295** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/Senate/PDF/S68v5.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **116–2** (pass) · lower
- Motion 8\To Concur — **46–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Dorsett — cosponsor (person)
- Malone — cosponsor (person)
- McKissick — cosponsor (person)
- Tillman — cosponsor (person)
- Vaughan — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2009-07-15** Ch. SL 2009-295 `became-law`
- **2009-07-15** Ratified
- **2009-07-14** Concurred In H/com Sub `amendment-passage`
- **2009-07-13** Placed On Cal For 7/14/2009
- **2009-07-13** Rec To Concur H Com Sub
- **2009-07-08** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2009-07-07** Placed On Cal For 7/8/2009
- **2009-07-07** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2009-07-07** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2009-06-18** Re-ref Com On Alcoholic Beverage Control `referral-committee`
- **2009-06-18** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2009-05-14** Ref to the Com on Local Government I, if favorable, Alcoholic Beverage Control `referral-committee`
- **2009-05-14** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2009-05-12** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2009-05-06** Placed On Cal For 5/12/2009
- **2009-05-06** Withdrawn From Com
- **2009-04-30** Re-ref Com On Commerce `referral-committee`
- **2009-04-30** Withdrawn From Cal
- **2009-04-29** Com Substitute Adopted
- **2009-04-29** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2009-02-05** Ref To Com On Commerce `referral-committee`
- **2009-02-04** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a5fc49e7-86f5-481e-9339-ee105c118ac4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).