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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Madison County Occupancy Tax."
+description: "Madison County Occupancy Tax."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
+legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
+session: "2005"
+identifier: "HB 544"
+citation: "North Carolina HB 544 (2005)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["AUTHORITIES", "COUNTIES", "COUNTY COMMISSIONERS", "FISCAL NOTES", "HOTELS & MOTELS", "LOCAL", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "RATIFIED", "TAXATION", "TAXES", "OCCUPANCY", "TRAVEL & TOURISM", "MADISON COUNTY", "CHAPTERED", "REP. RAPP", "TOURISM DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITIES"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: []
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 14
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2005-03-08"
+last_action: "2005-06-28"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7c489b43-2a29-4137-8c6a-87aa74fad8c6"
+source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2005&BillID=H544&votesToView=all"
+source_hash: "924e3801d23d5102f3c457fca39d4d2ce62c1bae791dbf060ecd0192cd6e8abd"
+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 544 (2005) — Madison County Occupancy Tax.
+
+## 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/2005/Bills/House/PDF/H544v0.pdf)
+2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2005/Bills/House/PDF/H544v1.pdf)
+3. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2005/Bills/House/PDF/H544v2.pdf)
+4. **SL2005-118** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2005/Bills/House/PDF/H544v3.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Second Reading — **37–9** (pass) · upper
+- Third Reading — **39–10** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Rapp — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2005-06-28** Ch. SL 2005-118 `became-law`
+- **2005-06-28** Ratified
+- **2005-06-28** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
+- **2005-06-27** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
+- **2005-06-23** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2005-04-14** Ref To Com On Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2005-04-14** Rec From House
+- **2005-04-13** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
+- **2005-04-12** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
+- **2005-04-11** Placed On Cal For 4/12/2005
+- **2005-04-05** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
+- **2005-04-05** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2005-03-09** Ref To Com On Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2005-03-08** Filed `introduction`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7c489b43-2a29-4137-8c6a-87aa74fad8c6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).
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