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+type: "Bill"
+title: "The Nicolas Adkins School Bus Safety Act."
+description: "The Nicolas Adkins School Bus Safety Act."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
+legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
+session: "2009"
+identifier: "HB 440"
+citation: "North Carolina HB 440 (2009)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["BUSES", "CRIMES", "EDUCATION", "EMERGENCY SERVICES", "FISCAL NOTES", "LAW ENFORCEMENT", "MOTOR VEHICLES", "PHOTOGRAPHY", "PRESENTED", "PUBLIC", "RATIFIED", "TRANSPORTATION", "REP. COLE", "CHAPTERED", "REP. FOLWELL", "TRAFFIC OFFENSES", "LAWS NAMED FOR PEOPLE", "REP. LOVE", "REP. MILLS"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Cole", "Folwell", "Mills"]
+version_count: 6
+action_count: 27
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2009-03-05"
+last_action: "2009-06-22"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a2009499-f3c2-432b-b53f-7b0e0edec780"
+source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2009&BillID=H440&votesToView=all"
+source_hash: "5529681422e71fe954e8dd12dc1df96eef148999e06b0bfc315488d9a2977a3f"
+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 440 (2009) — The Nicolas Adkins School Bus Safety Act.
+
+## 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/H440v0.pdf)
+2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/House/PDF/H440v1.pdf)
+3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/House/PDF/H440v2.pdf)
+4. **Edition 3** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/House/PDF/H440v3.pdf)
+5. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/House/PDF/H440v4.pdf)
+6. **SL2009-147** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/House/PDF/H440v5.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- M11 Concur — **116–0** (pass) · lower
+- Second Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Cole — primary (person)
+- Folwell — primary (person)
+- Mills — primary (person)
+- Blackwood — cosponsor (person)
+- Dollar — cosponsor (person)
+- Faison — cosponsor (person)
+- Fisher — cosponsor (person)
+- Glazier — cosponsor (person)
+- Harrison — cosponsor (person)
+- Johnson — cosponsor (person)
+- Langdon — cosponsor (person)
+- Love — cosponsor (person)
+- Luebke — cosponsor (person)
+- Pierce — cosponsor (person)
+- Samuelson — cosponsor (person)
+- Tarleton — cosponsor (person)
+- Weiss — cosponsor (person)
+- Wray — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2009-06-22** Ch. SL 2009-147 `became-law`
+- **2009-06-22** Signed By Gov. 6/22/2009 `executive-signature`
+- **2009-06-12** Pres. To Gov. 6/12/2009 `executive-receipt`
+- **2009-06-11** Ratified
+- **2009-06-10** Concurred In S/Com Sub `amendment-passage`
+- **2009-06-09** Placed On Cal For 6/10/2009
+- **2009-06-09** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
+- **2009-06-09** Rec To Concur S Com Sub
+- **2009-06-04** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
+- **2009-06-02** Placed On Cal For 6/4/2009
+- **2009-06-02** Withdrawn From Com
+- **2009-05-27** Re-ref Com On Appropriations/Base Budget `referral-committee`
+- **2009-05-27** Com Substitute Adopted
+- **2009-05-27** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2009-04-13** Ref To Com On Judiciary II `referral-committee`
+- **2009-04-09** Rec From House
+- **2009-04-08** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
+- **2009-04-07** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
+- **2009-04-06** Postponed To 4/7/2009
+- **2009-04-02** Placed On Cal For 4/6/2009
+- **2009-04-02** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
+- **2009-04-02** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2009-03-25** Re-ref Com On Judiciary III `referral-committee`
+- **2009-03-25** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2009-03-09** Ref to the Com on Transportation, if favorable, Judiciary III `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/a2009499-f3c2-432b-b53f-7b0e0edec780`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).
+