---
type: "Bill"
title: "Purchasing Process for Community Colleges."
description: "Purchasing Process for Community Colleges."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2009"
identifier: "HB 490"
citation: "North Carolina HB 490 (2009)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["BIDS & BIDDING", "BOARDS", "COMMUNITY COLLEGES", "COMMUNITY COLLEGES BOARD", "CONTRACTS", "EDUCATION", "HIGHER EDUCATION", "PRESENTED", "PUBLIC", "PURCHASING", "RATIFIED", "REPORTS", "STUDIES", "TITLE CHANGE", "REP. TOLSON", "CHAPTERED"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Barnhart", "Dockham", "Tolson"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2009-03-05"
last_action: "2009-06-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d8e6e4a4-5aaf-4325-b704-f694fc81a2b2"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2009&BillID=H490&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "7f946e1dffcb91fff5b63747fea6de93ee79ceae56c2c21784ce95de0f8cff73"
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 HB 490 (2009) — Purchasing Process for Community Colleges.

## 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/House/PDF/H490v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/House/PDF/H490v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/House/PDF/H490v2.pdf)
4. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/House/PDF/H490v3.pdf)
5. **SL2009-132** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/House/PDF/H490v4.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **117–0** (pass) · lower
- Second Reading — **48–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Barnhart — primary (person)
- Dockham — primary (person)
- Tolson — primary (person)
- Blackwood — cosponsor (person)
- Bordsen — cosponsor (person)
- Carney — cosponsor (person)
- Coates — cosponsor (person)
- Cotham — cosponsor (person)
- Dollar — cosponsor (person)
- E. Warren — cosponsor (person)
- England — cosponsor (person)
- Goodwin — cosponsor (person)
- Gulley — cosponsor (person)
- Harrison — cosponsor (person)
- Hurley — cosponsor (person)
- Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Langdon — cosponsor (person)
- Lucas — cosponsor (person)
- Martin — cosponsor (person)
- R. Warren — cosponsor (person)
- Samuelson — cosponsor (person)
- Tarleton — cosponsor (person)
- Underhill — cosponsor (person)
- Williams — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2009-06-19** Ch. SL 2009-132 `became-law`
- **2009-06-19** Signed By Gov. 6/19/2009 `executive-signature`
- **2009-06-10** Pres. To Gov. 6/10/2009 `executive-receipt`
- **2009-06-09** Ratified
- **2009-06-08** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2009-06-04** Placed On Cal For 6/8/2009
- **2009-06-04** Withdrawn From Cal
- **2009-06-03** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2009-05-20** Ref To Com On Education/Higher Education `referral-committee`
- **2009-05-12** Rec From House
- **2009-05-11** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2009-05-07** Placed On Cal For 5/11/2009
- **2009-05-07** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2009-05-07** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2009-03-23** Re-ref Com On Ways and Means/Broadband Connectivity `referral-committee`
- **2009-03-23** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2009-03-12** Assigned To Education Subcommittee on Community Colleges `referral-committee`
- **2009-03-09** Ref to the Com on Education, if favorable, Ways and Means/Broadband Connectivity `referral-committee`
- **2009-03-09** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2009-03-05** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d8e6e4a4-5aaf-4325-b704-f694fc81a2b2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).