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type: "Bill"
title: "Superior Court Judge May Perform Marriage."
description: "Superior Court Judge May Perform Marriage."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2009"
identifier: "HB 494"
citation: "North Carolina HB 494 (2009)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["COURTS", "JUDGES", "MARRIAGE & FAMILY", "PRESENTED", "PUBLIC", "RATIFIED", "REP. WAINWRIGHT", "SUPERIOR COURT", "CHAPTERED", "REP. BLUE"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Blue", "Wainwright"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2009-03-05"
last_action: "2009-04-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8912ce27-cf51-482a-b429-21e2ab9a7c69"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2009&BillID=H494&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "b73c5e2259be3322568f8f1b34f3fb8aeae87aade5212b9d09ea83e930c06cc9"
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 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](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/House/PDF/H494v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/House/PDF/H494v1.pdf)
3. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/House/PDF/H494v2.pdf)
4. **SL2009-13** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/House/PDF/H494v3.pdf)
## Votes
- Second Reading — **9125** (pass) · lower
- Second Reading — **389** (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- **2009-04-08** Withdrawn From Com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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8912ce27-cf51-482a-b429-21e2ab9a7c69`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).