---
type: "Bill"
title: "Required Notices for Towing Payments."
description: "Required Notices for Towing Payments."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2003"
identifier: "HB 944"
citation: "North Carolina HB 944 (2003)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["MOTOR VEHICLES", "NOTIFICATION", "PRESENTED", "PUBLIC", "RATIFIED", "TOWING", "REP. MITCHELL", "CHAPTERED"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 6
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2003-04-07"
last_action: "2003-07-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a27a0e17-f275-4794-9df3-668e3e2e56c0"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2003&BillID=H944&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "87b55432ba27930a74668ccc45d0dbd741b770d218294f013e24c4b5bd640935"
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 944 (2003) — Required Notices for Towing Payments.

## 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/H944v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/House/PDF/H944v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/House/PDF/H944v2.pdf)
4. **Edition 3** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/House/PDF/H944v3.pdf)
5. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/House/PDF/H944v4.pdf)
6. **SL 2003-336** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/House/PDF/H944v5.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **49–0** (pass) · upper
- M11 Concur — **111–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Mitchell — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2003-07-20** Ch. SL 2003-336 `became-law`
- **2003-07-20** Signed By Gov. 7/20/2003 `executive-signature`
- **2003-07-14** Pres. To Gov. 7/10/2003 `executive-receipt`
- **2003-07-09** Ratified
- **2003-07-08** Concurred In S/Com Sub `amendment-passage`
- **2003-06-26** Placed On Cal For 6/27/2003
- **2003-06-23** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2003-06-23** Rec To Concur S Com Sub
- **2003-06-18** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2003-06-11** Placed On Cal For 6/18/2003
- **2003-06-11** Com Substitute Adopted
- **2003-06-11** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2003-05-05** Ref To Com On Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2003-05-05** Rec From House
- **2003-05-01** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2003-04-29** Placed On Cal For 4/30/2003
- **2003-04-29** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2003-04-29** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2003-04-08** Ref To Com On Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2003-04-07** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a27a0e17-f275-4794-9df3-668e3e2e56c0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).