---
type: "Bill"
title: "Durham/Small Business Enterprise."
description: "Durham/Small Business Enterprise."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2011"
identifier: "SB 297"
citation: "North Carolina SB 297 (2011)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CHARTERS", "COMMERCE", "CONTRACTS", "CORPORATIONS", "FOR-PROFIT", "COUNTIES", "ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT", "LOCAL", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "MUNICIPALITIES", "RATIFIED", "SESSION LAWS", "SMALL BUSINESSES", "DURHAM COUNTY", "DURHAM", "CHAPTERED", "SEN. ATWATER", "SEN. MCKISSICK"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["McKissick"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 18
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2011-03-09"
last_action: "2011-06-17"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3fca8939-320a-4cab-9b4c-62553b0c313c"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2011&BillID=S297&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "e9dc07cdd06e9fce3c485b097365ac50ac168a02ba0ba036367e5dd5da0724d3"
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 297 (2011) — Durham/Small Business Enterprise.

## 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/2011/Bills/Senate/PDF/S297v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/Senate/PDF/S297v1.pdf)
3. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/Senate/PDF/S297v2.pdf)
4. **SL2011-168** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/Senate/PDF/S297v3.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **100–9** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

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

## Timeline

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

- **2011-06-17** Ch. SL 2011-168 `became-law`
- **2011-06-17** Ratified
- **2011-06-16** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2011-06-15** Placed On Cal For 6/16/2011
- **2011-06-15** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2011-06-15** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-06-15** Assigned To Commerce and Job Development Subcommittee on Business and Labor `referral-committee`
- **2011-06-13** Re-ref Com On Commerce and Job Development `referral-committee`
- **2011-06-13** Withdrawn From Com
- **2011-05-19** Re-ref Com On Finance `referral-committee`
- **2011-05-19** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-05-09** Ref to the Com on Government, if favorable, Finance `referral-committee`
- **2011-05-09** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2011-05-04** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2011-05-03** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-03-10** Ref To Com On Commerce `referral-committee`
- **2011-03-10** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2011-03-09** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3fca8939-320a-4cab-9b4c-62553b0c313c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).