---
type: "Bill"
title: "Amend Dealer Licensing Law."
description: "Amend Dealer Licensing Law."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2003"
identifier: "SB 777"
citation: "North Carolina SB 777 (2003)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["COMMERCE", "FISCAL NOTES", "FRANCHISES", "LICENSES & PERMITS", "MANUFACTURING", "MOTOR VEHICLES", "PRESENTED", "PUBLIC", "RATIFIED", "RETAILING", "SALES", "TRAILERS", "TRANSPORTATION", "SEN. FOXX", "SEN. HOYLE", "CHAPTERED", "SEN. SLOAN"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 5
action_count: 24
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2003-04-02"
last_action: "2003-06-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e5980722-53af-4124-8acc-16332907507c"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2003&BillID=S777&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "ccd4db6ddb076f3c4f47e318fd9640761e66b7d79c210ef162b591f75cabb1dd"
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 SB 777 (2003) — Amend Dealer Licensing Law.

## 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/Senate/PDF/S777v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/Senate/PDF/S777v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/Senate/PDF/S777v2.pdf)
4. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/Senate/PDF/S777v3.pdf)
5. **SL 2003-254** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/Senate/PDF/S777v4.pdf)

## Votes

- Motion 8\To Concur — **45–0** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **113–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Apodaca — cosponsor (person)
- Berger — cosponsor (person)
- Carpenter — cosponsor (person)
- Forrester — cosponsor (person)
- Foxx — cosponsor (person)
- Garwood — cosponsor (person)
- Hoyle — cosponsor (person)
- Kerr — cosponsor (person)
- Metcalf — cosponsor (person)
- Moore — cosponsor (person)
- Rucho — cosponsor (person)
- Shaw — cosponsor (person)
- Sloan — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2003-06-27** Ch. SL 2003-254 `became-law`
- **2003-06-27** Signed By Gov. 6/26/2003 `executive-signature`
- **2003-06-18** Pres. To Gov. 6/17/2003 `executive-receipt`
- **2003-06-16** Ratified
- **2003-06-12** Concurred In H/com Sub `amendment-passage`
- **2003-06-11** Placed On Cal For 6/12/2003
- **2003-06-11** Rec To Concur H Com Sub
- **2003-06-10** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2003-06-09** Placed On Cal For 6/10/2003
- **2003-06-05** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2003-06-05** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2003-06-03** Re-ref Com On Finance `referral-committee`
- **2003-06-03** Withdrawn From Cal
- **2003-06-02** Postponed To 6/3/2003
- **2003-06-02** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2003-05-29** Placed On Cal For 6/2/2003
- **2003-05-27** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2003-05-27** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2003-04-21** Ref To Com On Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2003-04-21** Rec From Senate
- **2003-04-16** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2003-04-15** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2003-04-03** Ref To Com On Commerce `referral-committee`
- **2003-04-02** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e5980722-53af-4124-8acc-16332907507c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).