---
type: "Bill"
title: "Asheville Franchise Tax Amendment."
description: "Asheville Franchise Tax Amendment."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2005"
identifier: "HB 2289"
citation: "North Carolina HB 2289 (2005)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CHARTERS", "COUNTIES", "INFRASTRUCTURE", "LOCAL", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "MUNICIPALITIES", "RATIFIED", "SESSION LAWS", "TAXATION", "TAXES", "FRANCHISE", "UTILITIES", "REP. SHERRILL", "BUNCOMBE COUNTY", "ASHEVILLE", "CHAPTERED", "REP. GOFORTH", "REP. FISHER"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Goforth", "Sherrill"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 17
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2006-05-18"
last_action: "2006-07-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/deaa9fee-e0ff-48e6-b1ba-28bdfd7c44e3"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2005&BillID=H2289&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "667be2d331d0598b96ec505461e880a7ba81eb10ba8bdbbe70cccec0cd5360c8"
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 2289 (2005) — Asheville Franchise Tax Amendment.

## 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/H2289v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2005/Bills/House/PDF/H2289v1.pdf)
3. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2005/Bills/House/PDF/H2289v2.pdf)
4. **SL2006-63** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2005/Bills/House/PDF/H2289v3.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **49–0** (pass) · upper
- Second Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Goforth — primary (person)
- Sherrill — primary (person)
- Fisher — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2006-07-06** Ch. SL 2006-63 `became-law`
- **2006-07-06** Ratified
- **2006-07-05** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2006-06-30** Placed On Cal For 7/5/2006
- **2006-06-30** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2006-06-29** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2006-06-21** Ref To Com On Finance `referral-committee`
- **2006-06-21** Rec From House
- **2006-06-20** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2006-06-15** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2006-06-12** Placed On Cal For 6/13/2006
- **2006-06-12** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2006-06-12** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2006-06-07** Re-ref Com On Finance `referral-committee`
- **2006-06-07** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2006-05-22** Ref to the Com on Local Government II and, if favorable, to the Com on Finance `referral-committee`
- **2006-05-18** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/deaa9fee-e0ff-48e6-b1ba-28bdfd7c44e3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).