---
type: "Bill"
title: "Highlands Mayor Pro Tem."
description: "Highlands Mayor Pro Tem."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2009"
identifier: "SB 1437"
citation: "North Carolina SB 1437 (2009)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CITY COUNCILS", "COUNTIES", "ELECTIONS", "LOCAL", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "MAYORS", "MUNICIPALITIES", "PUBLIC OFFICIALS", "RATIFIED", "HIGHLANDS", "MACON COUNTY", "CHAPTERED", "SEN. SNOW"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 4
action_count: 12
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2010-05-26"
last_action: "2010-07-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/28765e18-4b24-41c0-acd7-f17eaf3fe534"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2009&BillID=S1437&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "0883f534b7d88a7dddc91af7a94435effb516b61f0ae1d684fb8e4e218eb8281"
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 1437 (2009) — Highlands Mayor Pro Tem.

## 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/Senate/PDF/S1437v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/Senate/PDF/S1437v1.pdf)
3. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/Senate/PDF/S1437v2.pdf)
4. **SL2010-58** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/Senate/PDF/S1437v3.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **50–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Snow — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2010-07-07** Ch. SL 2010-58 `became-law`
- **2010-07-07** Ratified
- **2010-07-06** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2010-07-01** Placed On Cal For 7/6/2010
- **2010-07-01** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2010-07-01** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2010-06-14** Ref To Com On Local Government I `referral-committee`
- **2010-06-14** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2010-06-09** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2010-06-08** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2010-05-27** Ref To Com On State and Local Government `referral-committee`
- **2010-05-26** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/28765e18-4b24-41c0-acd7-f17eaf3fe534`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).