---
type: "Bill"
title: "Cary Charter Amendments."
description: "Cary Charter Amendments."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2015"
identifier: "SB 848"
citation: "North Carolina SB 848 (2015)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CHARTERS", "COUNTIES", "INFRASTRUCTURE", "LOCAL", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "MUNICIPALITIES", "PLANNING & ZONING", "PROPERTY", "RATIFIED", "SALES & CONVEYANCES", "UTILITIES", "WAKE COUNTY", "CARY", "CHAPTERED"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Barringer", "Chaudhuri"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 26
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2016-05-10"
last_action: "2016-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/336b0103-1d89-49f4-a8de-5dd061f55738"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2015&BillID=S848&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "109e3e64c06a8212d53557789280fcf163c468af30570eb0440d2a5bda49ebaf"
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 (2015) — Cary Charter Amendments.

## 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/2015/Bills/Senate/PDF/S848v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2015/Bills/Senate/PDF/S848v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2015/Bills/Senate/PDF/S848v2.pdf)
4. **Edition 3** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2015/Bills/Senate/PDF/S848v3.pdf)
5. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2015/Bills/Senate/PDF/S848v4.pdf)
6. **SL 2016-68** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2015/Bills/Senate/PDF/S848v5.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **110–0** (pass) · lower
- Motion 9 To Concur — **43–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Barringer — primary (person)
- Chaudhuri — primary (person)
- Foushee — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2016-07-01** Ch. SL 2016-68 `became-law`
- **2016-07-01** Ratified
- **2016-07-01** Ordered Enrolled
- **2016-07-01** Concurred In H/Com Sub `amendment-passage`
- **2016-06-30** Placed On Cal For 07/01/2016
- **2016-06-30** Special Message Received For Concurrence in H Com Sub
- **2016-06-30** Special Message Sent To Senate
- **2016-06-30** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2016-06-30** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2016-06-29** Placed On Cal For 06/30/2016
- **2016-06-29** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2016-06-29** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2016-06-29** Re-ref Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2016-06-29** Withdrawn From Com
- **2016-06-08** Ref To Com On Local Government `referral-committee`
- **2016-06-08** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2016-06-07** Regular Message Received From Senate
- **2016-06-07** Regular Message Sent To House
- **2016-06-06** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2016-06-06** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2016-06-02** Placed On Cal For 06/06/2016
- **2016-06-02** Com Substitute Adopted
- **2016-06-02** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2016-05-11** Ref To Com On State and Local Government `referral-committee`
- **2016-05-11** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2016-05-10** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/336b0103-1d89-49f4-a8de-5dd061f55738`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).