---
type: "Bill"
title: "Raise Minimum Wage."
description: "Raise Minimum Wage."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2005"
identifier: "HB 2174"
citation: "North Carolina HB 2174 (2005)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["EMPLOYMENT", "MINIMUM WAGE", "PRESENTED", "PUBLIC", "RATIFIED", "SALARIES & BENEFITS", "REP. GIBSON", "REP. OWENS", "CHAPTERED", "REP. ENGLAND", "REP. GOFORTH", "REP. HARRELL", "REP. JONES", "REP. PARMON"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Harrell", "Jones"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2006-05-17"
last_action: "2006-07-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/04b4ea3e-3f47-4dac-90c3-ae4fd71407af"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2005&BillID=H2174&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "220bb894bcb9e9f3fccd5c7e03c5430be88f257637b0b224d1448e4f3707f262"
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 2174 (2005) — Raise Minimum Wage.

## 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/H2174v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2005/Bills/House/PDF/H2174v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2005/Bills/House/PDF/H2174v2.pdf)
4. **Edition 3** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2005/Bills/House/PDF/H2174v3.pdf)
5. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2005/Bills/House/PDF/H2174v4.pdf)
6. **SL2006-114** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2005/Bills/House/PDF/H2174v5.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **32–8** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **37–12** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Harrell — primary (person)
- Jones — primary (person)
- Adams — cosponsor (person)
- B. Allen — cosponsor (person)
- England — cosponsor (person)
- Faison — cosponsor (person)
- Gibson — cosponsor (person)
- Glazier — cosponsor (person)
- Goforth — cosponsor (person)
- Harrison — cosponsor (person)
- Luebke — cosponsor (person)
- McLawhorn — cosponsor (person)
- Owens — cosponsor (person)
- Parmon — cosponsor (person)
- Rapp — cosponsor (person)
- Spear — cosponsor (person)
- Underhill — cosponsor (person)
- Wainwright — cosponsor (person)
- Weiss — cosponsor (person)
- Wilkins — cosponsor (person)
- Williams — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2006-07-13** Ch. SL 2006-114 `became-law`
- **2006-07-13** Signed By Gov. 7/13/2006 `executive-signature`
- **2006-07-11** Pres. To Gov. 7/11/2006 `executive-receipt`
- **2006-07-11** Ratified
- **2006-07-10** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2006-07-07** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2006-07-07** Placed On Cal For 7/7/2006
- **2006-07-07** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2006-05-31** Ref To Com On Commerce `referral-committee`
- **2006-05-31** Rec From House
- **2006-05-30** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2006-05-25** Placed On Cal For 5/30/2006
- **2006-05-25** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2006-05-25** Amend Failed #2 `amendment-failure`
- **2006-05-25** Amend Adopted #1 `amendment-passage`
- **2006-05-24** Placed On Cal For 5/25/2006
- **2006-05-24** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2006-05-24** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2006-05-18** Ref To Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2006-05-17** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/04b4ea3e-3f47-4dac-90c3-ae4fd71407af`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).