---
type: "Bill"
title: "Improve Real Estate Licensing Law."
description: "Improve Real Estate Licensing Law."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2005"
identifier: "HB 1284"
citation: "North Carolina HB 1284 (2005)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["COMMISSIONS", "EMPLOYMENT", "FISCAL NOTES", "LICENSING & CERTIFICATION", "OCCUPATIONS", "PRESENTED", "PROPERTY", "PUBLIC", "RATIFIED", "REAL ESTATE", "REAL ESTATE COMN.", "REP. BRUBAKER", "REP. CULPEPPER", "REP. HOWARD", "CHAPTERED"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Culpepper", "Howard"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 23
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2005-04-18"
last_action: "2005-09-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6cf047b0-7f01-480b-be8b-18d484f923b7"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2005&BillID=H1284&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "e26cc380ef2fb3ee994f3942e96402df4c18a92ce2c160d86347f5eb8c5daa60"
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 1284 (2005) — Improve Real Estate 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/2005/Bills/House/PDF/H1284v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2005/Bills/House/PDF/H1284v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2005/Bills/House/PDF/H1284v2.pdf)
4. **Edition 3** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2005/Bills/House/PDF/H1284v3.pdf)
5. **Edition 4** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2005/Bills/House/PDF/H1284v4.pdf)
6. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2005/Bills/House/PDF/H1284v5.pdf)
7. **SL2005-395** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2005/Bills/House/PDF/H1284v6.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper
- M11 Concur — **114–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Culpepper — primary (person)
- Howard — primary (person)
- Brubaker — cosponsor (person)
- LaRoque — cosponsor (person)
- Sauls — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2005-09-14** Ch. SL 2005-395 `became-law`
- **2005-09-14** Signed By Gov. 9/14/2005 `executive-signature`
- **2005-08-23** Pres. To Gov. 8/23/2005 `executive-receipt`
- **2005-08-23** Ratified
- **2005-08-22** Concurred In S/Com Sub `amendment-passage`
- **2005-08-18** Placed On Cal For 8/22/2005
- **2005-08-15** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2005-08-15** Rec To Concur S Com Sub
- **2005-08-12** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2005-08-11** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2005-08-10** Re-ref Com On Finance `referral-committee`
- **2005-08-10** Com Substitute Adopted
- **2005-08-10** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2005-06-30** Ref to Commerce. If fav, re-ref to Finance `referral-committee`
- **2005-06-30** Rec From House
- **2005-06-29** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2005-06-28** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2005-06-28** Amend Adopted #1 `amendment-passage`
- **2005-06-27** Placed On Cal For 6/28/2005
- **2005-06-21** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2005-06-21** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2005-04-19** Ref To Com On Finance `referral-committee`
- **2005-04-18** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6cf047b0-7f01-480b-be8b-18d484f923b7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).