---
type: "Bill"
title: "Durham City Manager/Contract Authority."
description: "Durham City Manager/Contract Authority."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2009"
identifier: "SB 548"
citation: "North Carolina SB 548 (2009)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CHARTERS", "CITY COUNCILS", "CITY MANAGERS", "CONTRACTS", "COUNTIES", "LOCAL", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "MUNICIPALITIES", "PUBLIC MEETINGS", "RATIFIED", "SESSION LAWS", "DURHAM COUNTY", "DURHAM", "CHAPTERED", "SEN. MCKISSICK"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 4
action_count: 12
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2009-03-11"
last_action: "2009-05-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/24af78e8-5588-4b39-bd60-cb218fc2ba90"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2009&BillID=S548&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "64ff8a82406f7dc7077fc21c045b53629b4874bf176e6dabeb86cea1f79c3b69"
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 548 (2009) — Durham City Manager/Contract Authority.

## 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/S548v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/Senate/PDF/S548v1.pdf)
3. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/Senate/PDF/S548v2.pdf)
4. **SL2009-41** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/Senate/PDF/S548v3.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **48–0** (pass) · upper
- Second Reading — **114–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

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

## Timeline

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

- **2009-05-28** Ch. SL 2009-41 `became-law`
- **2009-05-28** Ratified
- **2009-05-27** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2009-05-26** Placed On Cal For 5/27/2009
- **2009-05-26** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2009-05-26** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2009-04-21** Ref To Com On Judiciary II `referral-committee`
- **2009-04-21** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2009-04-16** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2009-04-15** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2009-03-12** Ref To Com On State and Local Government `referral-committee`
- **2009-03-11** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/24af78e8-5588-4b39-bd60-cb218fc2ba90`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).