---
type: "Bill"
title: "Asheville City Civil Service Board."
description: "Asheville City Civil Service Board."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2009"
identifier: "SB 556"
citation: "North Carolina SB 556 (2009)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["BOARDS", "CIVIL SERVICE BOARDS", "COUNTIES", "EMPLOYMENT", "FINES & PENALTIES", "LOCAL", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "MUNICIPALITIES", "PUBLIC MEETINGS", "PUBLIC OFFICIALS", "RATIFIED", "SESSION LAWS", "BUNCOMBE COUNTY", "ASHEVILLE", "CHAPTERED", "SEN. NESBITT"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 6
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2009-03-11"
last_action: "2009-08-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d940b699-e4d8-4759-8fea-ab453d274dd9"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2009&BillID=S556&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "a431a117b0335c121e71af33a64f5b22c45aa909baf8b79369b7a6eb0fa62092"
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 556 (2009) — Asheville City Civil Service Board.

## 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/S556v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/Senate/PDF/S556v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/Senate/PDF/S556v2.pdf)
4. **Edition 3** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/Senate/PDF/S556v3.pdf)
5. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/Senate/PDF/S556v4.pdf)
6. **SL2009-401** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/Senate/PDF/S556v5.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **115–0** (pass) · lower
- Motion 8\To Concur — **38–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Nesbitt — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2009-08-03** Ch. SL 2009-401 `became-law`
- **2009-08-03** Ratified
- **2009-07-30** Concurred In H/com Sub `amendment-passage`
- **2009-07-30** Placed On Cal For 7/30/2009
- **2009-07-30** Withdrawn From Cal
- **2009-07-30** Placed On Cal For 8/3/2009
- **2009-07-29** Rec To Concur H Com Sub
- **2009-07-29** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2009-07-28** Placed On Cal For 7/29/2009
- **2009-07-28** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2009-07-28** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2009-07-22** Re-ref Com On Judiciary II `referral-committee`
- **2009-07-22** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2009-05-18** Ref to the Com on Local Government II, if favorable, Judiciary II `referral-committee`
- **2009-05-18** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2009-05-13** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2009-05-12** Com Substitute Adopted
- **2009-05-12** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `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/d940b699-e4d8-4759-8fea-ab453d274dd9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).