---
type: "Bill"
title: "Even-Yr. Municipal Elections/Town of Montreat."
description: "Even-Yr. Municipal Elections/Town of Montreat."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 139"
citation: "North Carolina SB 139 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CHARTERS", "CITY COUNCILS", "COUNTIES", "ELECTIONS", "LOCAL", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "MUNICIPALITIES", "PUBLIC OFFICIALS", "RATIFIED", "SESSION LAWS", "BUNCOMBE COUNTY", "CHAPTERED", "MONTREAT"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 5
action_count: 25
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2019-02-26"
last_action: "2019-06-17"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9f8a3a1e-187c-45a8-9051-03d8c30420f8"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2019&BillID=S139&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "cb70b3a3820ab624c623de3cb4fac1453087814bd9825834e737b1ed1095b7d5"
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 139 (2019) — Even-Yr. Municipal Elections/Town of Montreat.

## 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/2019/Bills/Senate/PDF/S139v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2019/Bills/Senate/PDF/S139v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2019/Bills/Senate/PDF/S139v2.pdf)
4. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2019/Bills/Senate/PDF/S139v3.pdf)
5. **SL 2019-28** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2019/Bills/Senate/PDF/S139v4.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Edwards — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-06-17** Ch. SL 2019-28 `became-law`
- **2019-06-17** Ratified
- **2019-06-13** Ordered Enrolled
- **2019-06-13** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-06-13** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2019-06-10** Placed On Cal For 06/13/2019
- **2019-06-10** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2019-06-10** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-06-05** Re-ref Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2019-06-05** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-05-28** Ref to the Com on Elections and Ethics Law, if favorable, Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-28** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2019-05-24** Regular Message Received From Senate
- **2019-05-24** Regular Message Sent To House
- **2019-05-23** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-05-23** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2019-05-22** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-05-21** Re-ref Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-21** Com Substitute Adopted
- **2019-05-21** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-27** Re-ref to Redistricting and Elections. If fav, re-ref to Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-27** Withdrawn From Com
- **2019-02-27** Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-27** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2019-02-26** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9f8a3a1e-187c-45a8-9051-03d8c30420f8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).