---
type: "Bill"
title: "Flex. in Setting Salary/Comm. Coll. Pres."
description: "Flex. in Setting Salary/Comm. Coll. Pres."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2009"
identifier: "SB 740"
citation: "North Carolina SB 740 (2009)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["BOARDS", "EDUCATION", "EDUCATION", "STATE BOARD OF", "EMPLOYMENT", "FISCAL NOTES", "OCCUPATIONS", "PERSONNEL", "PRESENTED", "PUBLIC", "RATIFIED", "SALARIES & BENEFITS", "STATE EMPLOYEES", "TEACHERS", "CHAPTERED", "SEN. MALONE"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 8
action_count: 25
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2009-03-23"
last_action: "2010-07-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/447db5e6-f850-4f52-a0e4-4f93adcda885"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2009&BillID=S740&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "78317019345832501b220acc360592110816dada7faf788c0d8ada0837e70aeb"
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 740 (2009) — Flex. in Setting Salary/Comm. Coll. Pres.

## 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/S740v0.pdf)
2. **A1: ALB-184-V-1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://webservices.ncleg.net/ViewBillDocument/2009/2064/0/S740-ALB-184-V-1)
3. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/Senate/PDF/S740v1.pdf)
4. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/Senate/PDF/S740v2.pdf)
5. **Edition 3** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/Senate/PDF/S740v3.pdf)
6. **Edition 4** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/Senate/PDF/S740v4.pdf)
7. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/Senate/PDF/S740v5.pdf)
8. **SL2010-113** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/Senate/PDF/S740v6.pdf)

## Votes

- Motion 8\To Concur — **48–0** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **107–8** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Bingham — cosponsor (person)
- Goss — cosponsor (person)
- Hartsell — cosponsor (person)
- Malone — cosponsor (person)
- Stevens — cosponsor (person)
- Swindell — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2010-07-20** Ch. SL 2010-113 `became-law`
- **2010-07-20** Signed By Gov. 7/20/2010 `executive-signature`
- **2010-07-08** Pres. To Gov. 7/8/2010 `executive-receipt`
- **2010-07-07** Ratified
- **2010-07-06** Concurred In H/com Sub `amendment-passage`
- **2010-07-01** Placed On Cal For 7/6/2010
- **2010-07-01** Rec To Concur H Com Sub
- **2010-06-30** Rec From House
- **2010-06-30** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2010-06-30** Amend Adopted 1 `amendment-passage`
- **2010-06-29** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2010-06-28** Placed On Cal For 6/29/2010
- **2010-06-28** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2010-06-28** Withdrawn From Com
- **2010-06-15** Re-ref Com On Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2010-06-15** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2009-05-19** Ref to the Com on Education, if favorable, Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2009-05-19** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2009-05-14** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2009-05-13** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2009-04-08** Re-ref Com On Pensions & Retirement & Aging `referral-committee`
- **2009-04-08** Com Substitute Adopted
- **2009-04-08** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2009-03-24** Ref To Com On Education/Higher Education `referral-committee`
- **2009-03-23** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/447db5e6-f850-4f52-a0e4-4f93adcda885`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).