---
type: "Bill"
title: "Motor Vehicle Passing Laws/Dalton's Law."
description: "Motor Vehicle Passing Laws/Dalton's Law."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2001"
identifier: "HB 774"
citation: "North Carolina HB 774 (2001)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["BUSES", "EMERGENCY SERVICES", "LANGUAGES", "LAW ENFORCEMENT", "LEASING", "MOTOR VEHICLES", "NOTIFICATION", "PRESENTED", "PUBLIC", "RATIFIED", "ROADS & HIGHWAYS", "SAFETY", "SPEED LIMIT", "TITLE CHANGE", "REP. MORRIS", "CHAPTERED"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 6
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2001-03-22"
last_action: "2001-08-02"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d6d5777d-0db8-4509-8e3b-66594c7f1c65"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2001&BillID=H774&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "3df5b3a3a749e3e38dbd5d051df683f749a464786821613219dd9e8df9c0dfaf"
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 774 (2001) — Motor Vehicle Passing Laws/Dalton's Law.

## Version chain

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

1. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2001/Bills/House/PDF/H774v1.pdf)
2. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2001/Bills/House/PDF/H774v2.pdf)
3. **Edition 3** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2001/Bills/House/PDF/H774v3.pdf)
4. **Edition 4** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2001/Bills/House/PDF/H774v4.pdf)
5. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2001/Bills/House/PDF/H774v5.pdf)
6. **SL 2001-331** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2001/Bills/House/PDF/H774v6.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **49–0** (pass) · upper
- M11 Concur — **105–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Morris — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2001-08-02** Ch. SL 2001-331 `became-law`
- **2001-08-02** Signed By Gov. 8/2/2001 `executive-signature`
- **2001-07-25** Pres. To Gov. 7/25/2001 `executive-receipt`
- **2001-07-24** Ratified
- **2001-07-23** Concurred In S/Com Sub `amendment-passage`
- **2001-07-19** Placed On Cal For 7/23/2001
- **2001-07-19** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2001-07-19** Rec To Concur S Com Sub
- **2001-07-17** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2001-07-16** Com Substitute Adopted
- **2001-07-16** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2001-04-25** Ref To Com On Judiciary II `referral-committee`
- **2001-04-25** Rec From House
- **2001-04-25** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2001-04-23** Placed On Cal For 4/24/2001
- **2001-04-23** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2001-04-23** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2001-03-26** Ref To Com On Judiciary III `referral-committee`
- **2001-03-22** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d6d5777d-0db8-4509-8e3b-66594c7f1c65`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).