---
type: "Bill"
title: "New Hanover County Occupancy Tax."
description: "New Hanover County Occupancy Tax."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2003"
identifier: "HB 668"
citation: "North Carolina HB 668 (2003)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["COUNTIES", "HOTELS & MOTELS", "MUNICIPALITIES", "PUBLIC", "RATIFIED", "SESSION LAWS", "TAXATION", "TAXES", "OCCUPANCY", "REP. WRIGHT", "NEW HANOVER COUNTY", "WILMINGTON", "CHAPTERED"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 5
action_count: 12
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2003-03-25"
last_action: "2003-06-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/39a102de-2f40-4f4f-9979-61e7ab6a8069"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2003&BillID=H668&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "87f1ce4da26c16fa32a373210d0dc7d6fea0e9f00e9c9c0ff1fdf46fe1c0e725"
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 668 (2003) — New Hanover 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/2003/Bills/House/PDF/H668v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/House/PDF/H668v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/House/PDF/H668v2.pdf)
4. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/House/PDF/H668v3.pdf)
5. **SL 2003-166** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/House/PDF/H668v4.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **43–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Wright — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2003-06-10** Ch. SL 2003-166 `became-law`
- **2003-06-09** Ratified
- **2003-06-05** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2003-06-04** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2003-04-22** Ref To Com On State Government, Local Government, and Veterans' Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2003-04-22** Rec From House
- **2003-04-21** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2003-04-16** Placed On Cal For 4/17/2003
- **2003-04-10** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2003-04-10** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2003-03-26** Ref To Com On Local Government II `referral-committee`
- **2003-03-25** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/39a102de-2f40-4f4f-9979-61e7ab6a8069`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).