republic-os/legislation/us/states/nc/2009/hb-494.md

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Bill	Superior Court Judge May Perform Marriage.	Superior Court Judge May Perform Marriage.	us/states/nc	North Carolina General Assembly	2009	HB 494	North Carolina HB 494 (2009)	bill	COURTS JUDGES MARRIAGE & FAMILY PRESENTED PUBLIC RATIFIED REP. WAINWRIGHT SUPERIOR COURT CHAPTERED REP. BLUE	enacted	Blue Wainwright	4	19	2	2009-03-05	2009-04-09	openstates	ocd-bill/8912ce27-cf51-482a-b429-21e2ab9a7c69	http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2009&BillID=H494&votesToView=all	b73c5e2259be3322568f8f1b34f3fb8aeae87aade5212b9d09ea83e930c06cc9	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-nc

North Carolina HB 494 (2009) — Superior Court Judge May Perform Marriage.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. Filed (filed) — source
2. Edition 1 (committee substitute) — source
3. Ratified (committee substitute) — source
4. SL2009-13 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Second Reading — 91–25 (pass) · lower
• Second Reading — 38–9 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Blue — primary (person)
• Wainwright — primary (person)
• Hughes — cosponsor (person)
• Mackey — cosponsor (person)
• Pierce — cosponsor (person)
• Wray — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2009-04-09 Ch. SL 2009-13 became-law
• 2009-04-09 Signed By Gov. 4/9/2009 executive-signature
• 2009-04-09 Pres. To Gov. 4/9/2009 executive-receipt
• 2009-04-09 Ratified
• 2009-04-09 Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading passage, reading-2, reading-3
• 2009-04-08 Placed On Cal For 4/9/2009
• 2009-04-08 Withdrawn From Com
• 2009-03-31 Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate referral-committee
• 2009-03-31 Rec From House
• 2009-03-30 Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading passage, reading-2, reading-3
• 2009-03-26 Placed On Cal For 3/30/2009
• 2009-03-26 Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
• 2009-03-26 Reptd Fav committee-passage-favorable
• 2009-03-24 Assigned To Appropriations Subcommittee on General Government referral-committee
• 2009-03-10 Re-ref Com On Appropriations referral-committee
• 2009-03-10 Reptd Fav committee-passage-favorable
• 2009-03-09 Ref to the Com on Judiciary II, if favorable, Appropriations referral-committee
• 2009-03-09 Passed 1st Reading reading-1
• 2009-03-05 Filed introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/8912ce27-cf51-482a-b429-21e2ab9a7c69. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).