republic-os/legislation/us/states/nc/2009/sb-488.md

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Bill	Establish Proportionate Sentence Lengths.	Establish Proportionate Sentence Lengths.	us/states/nc	North Carolina General Assembly	2009	SB 488	North Carolina SB 488 (2009)	bill	COURTS CRIMES CRIMINAL PROCEDURE FISCAL NOTES PRESENTED PUBLIC RATIFIED SENTENCING SEN. KINNAIRD CHAPTERED	enacted		4	21	2	2009-03-09	2009-08-28	openstates	ocd-bill/46afb304-d88b-40c4-b1f9-1fc2a898dfbd	http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2009&BillID=S488&votesToView=all	ca5602cf45caf4387b404b7973584d9126af1fe0bd393e13a8a518ca7a0ab664	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-nc

North Carolina SB 488 (2009) — Establish Proportionate Sentence Lengths.

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. SL2009-556 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Second Reading — 61–52 (pass) · lower
• Second Reading — 23–22 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Bingham — cosponsor (person)
• Kinnaird — cosponsor (person)
• Nesbitt — cosponsor (person)
• Snow — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2009-08-28 Ch. SL 2009-556 became-law
• 2009-08-28 Signed By Gov. 8/28/2009 executive-signature
• 2009-08-11 Pres. To Gov. 8/11/2009 executive-receipt
• 2009-08-11 Ratified
• 2009-08-10 Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading passage, reading-2, reading-3
• 2009-08-06 Postponed To 8/10/2009
• 2009-08-05 Placed On Cal For 8/6/2009
• 2009-08-05 Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
• 2009-08-05 Withdrawn From Com
• 2009-07-28 Re-ref Com On Appropriations referral-committee
• 2009-07-28 Reptd Fav committee-passage-favorable
• 2009-07-20 Ref to the Com on Judiciary II, if favorable, Appropriations referral-committee
• 2009-07-20 Passed 1st Reading reading-1
• 2009-07-15 Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading passage, reading-2, reading-3
• 2009-07-13 Placed On Cal For 7/15/2009
• 2009-07-13 Withdrawn From Cal
• 2009-07-09 Reptd Fav committee-passage-favorable
• 2009-05-13 Re-ref Com On Appropriations/Base Budget referral-committee
• 2009-05-13 Reptd Fav committee-passage-favorable
• 2009-03-10 Ref To Com On Judiciary I referral-committee
• 2009-03-09 Filed introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/46afb304-d88b-40c4-b1f9-1fc2a898dfbd. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).