---
type: "Bill"
title: "Legal Services Clarification."
description: "Legal Services Clarification."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2009"
identifier: "SB 763"
citation: "North Carolina SB 763 (2009)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ATTORNEYS", "CORPORATIONS", "NON-PROFIT", "INDIGENTS", "OCCUPATIONS", "POVERTY", "PRESENTED", "PUBLIC", "RATIFIED", "CHAPTERED", "SEN. STEIN"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 8
action_count: 21
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2009-03-23"
last_action: "2009-06-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f12f89ea-9d03-4108-8fed-2bd9aba0619c"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2009&BillID=S763&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "5e760f4481a9b94f8d08893d29a3761ba5272810de4ca9f77d75acde9386b909"
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 763 (2009) — Legal Services Clarification.

## 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/S763v0.pdf)
2. **A1: AST-15-V-1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://webservices.ncleg.net/ViewBillDocument/2009/2084/0/S763-AST-15-V-1)
3. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/Senate/PDF/S763v1.pdf)
4. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/Senate/PDF/S763v2.pdf)
5. **Edition 3** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/Senate/PDF/S763v3.pdf)
6. **Edition 4** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/Senate/PDF/S763v4.pdf)
7. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/Senate/PDF/S763v5.pdf)
8. **SL2009-231** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/Senate/PDF/S763v6.pdf)

## Votes

- Motion 8\To Concur — **46–0** (pass) · upper
- Second Reading — **119–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Clodfelter — cosponsor (person)
- Kinnaird — cosponsor (person)
- McKissick — cosponsor (person)
- Stein — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2009-06-30** Ch. SL 2009-231 `became-law`
- **2009-06-30** Signed By Gov. 6/30/2009 `executive-signature`
- **2009-06-25** Pres. To Gov. 6/25/2009 `executive-receipt`
- **2009-06-24** Ratified
- **2009-06-23** Concurred In H/com Sub `amendment-passage`
- **2009-06-22** Placed On Cal For 6/23/2009
- **2009-06-22** Rec To Concur H Com Sub
- **2009-06-18** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **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`
- **2009-05-26** Re-ref Com On Finance `referral-committee`
- **2009-05-26** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2009-05-14** Ref to the Com on Judiciary I, if favorable, Finance `referral-committee`
- **2009-05-14** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2009-05-12** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2009-05-12** Amend Adopted #1 `amendment-passage`
- **2009-05-11** Com Substitute Adopted
- **2009-05-11** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2009-03-24** Ref To Com On Judiciary I `referral-committee`
- **2009-03-23** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f12f89ea-9d03-4108-8fed-2bd9aba0619c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).