---
type: "Bill"
title: "Increase Penalties for Failure to Yield."
description: "Increase Penalties for Failure to Yield."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2003"
identifier: "HB 965"
citation: "North Carolina HB 965 (2003)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["DEATH & DYING", "DMV", "DRIVERS LICENSES", "FINES & PENALTIES", "LICENSES & PERMITS", "MOTOR VEHICLES", "PRESENTED", "PUBLIC", "RATIFIED", "TRANSPORTATION", "TRANSPORTATION DEPT.", "REP. HILL", "CHAPTERED"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 7
action_count: 27
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2003-04-08"
last_action: "2004-08-02"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a01fe543-ed06-4acb-ba5e-c8c4be7f0713"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2003&BillID=H965&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "afd8c5dfb5d4fec3ff2cebe7ba6f6f3427e8a0408c61938e065b0e7b3bd5e78a"
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 965 (2003) — Increase Penalties for Failure to Yield.

## 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/H965v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/House/PDF/H965v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/House/PDF/H965v2.pdf)
4. **Edition 3** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/House/PDF/H965v3.pdf)
5. **Edition 4** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/House/PDF/H965v4.pdf)
6. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/House/PDF/H965v5.pdf)
7. **SL 2004-172** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/House/PDF/H965v6.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **48–0** (pass) · upper
- M11 Concur — **112–3** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Church — cosponsor (person)
- Hill — cosponsor (person)
- Pate — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2004-08-02** Ch. SL 2004-172 `became-law`
- **2004-08-02** Signed By Gov. 8/2/2004 `executive-signature`
- **2004-07-15** Pres. To Gov. 7/14/2004 `executive-receipt`
- **2004-07-14** Ratified
- **2004-07-13** Concurred In S/Com Sub `amendment-passage`
- **2004-07-12** Placed On Cal For 7/13/2004
- **2004-07-08** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2004-07-08** Rec To Concur S Com Sub
- **2004-07-07** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2004-07-06** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2004-07-01** Placed On Cal For 7/6/2004
- **2004-07-01** Withdrawn From Cal
- **2004-06-30** Com Substitute Adopted
- **2004-06-30** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2003-06-09** Re-ref Com On Judiciary II `referral-committee`
- **2003-06-09** Withdrawn From Cal
- **2003-06-05** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2003-05-05** Ref To Com On Judiciary II `referral-committee`
- **2003-05-01** Held by Senate
- **2003-05-01** Rec From House
- **2003-04-30** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2003-04-30** Amend Adopted #1 `amendment-passage`
- **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`
- **2003-04-09** Ref To Com On Judiciary III `referral-committee`
- **2003-04-08** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a01fe543-ed06-4acb-ba5e-c8c4be7f0713`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).