---
type: "Bill"
title: "Durham City Assessments."
description: "Durham City Assessments."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2011"
identifier: "SB 848"
citation: "North Carolina SB 848 (2011)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CHARTERS", "COUNTIES", "INFRASTRUCTURE", "LOCAL", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "MUNICIPALITIES", "PROPERTY", "RATIFIED", "REAL ESTATE", "SESSION LAWS", "TAXATION", "TAXES", "PROPERTY", "DURHAM COUNTY", "DURHAM", "CHAPTERED", "SEN. ATWATER", "SEN. MCKISSICK"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["McKissick"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 16
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2012-05-21"
last_action: "2012-06-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a941fe22-5442-4ab2-98c5-d910e59e9400"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2011&BillID=S848&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "d116082f3da52dec4b9da3aa6908c4b0330eaf612c0da8288627a09562ccf3bc"
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 848 (2011) — Durham City Assessments.

## 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/S848v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/Senate/PDF/S848v1.pdf)
3. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/Senate/PDF/S848v2.pdf)
4. **SL2012-94** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/Senate/PDF/S848v3.pdf)

## Sponsors

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

## Timeline

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

- **2012-06-28** Ch. SL 2012-94 `became-law`
- **2012-06-28** Ratified
- **2012-06-27** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2012-06-26** Placed On Cal For 6/27/2012
- **2012-06-26** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2012-06-26** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2012-06-20** Ref To Com On Finance `referral-committee`
- **2012-06-20** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2012-06-20** Rec From Senate
- **2012-06-20** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2012-06-19** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2012-06-05** Re-ref Com On Finance `referral-committee`
- **2012-06-05** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2012-05-22** Ref To Com On State and Local Government `referral-committee`
- **2012-05-22** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2012-05-21** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a941fe22-5442-4ab2-98c5-d910e59e9400`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).