---
type: "Bill"
title: "Enhanced Voluntary Agricultural Districts."
description: "Enhanced Voluntary Agricultural Districts."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2005"
identifier: "HB 607"
citation: "North Carolina HB 607 (2005)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["AGRICULTURE", "ANIMALS", "COMMITTEES", "CONSERVATION", "ENVIRONMENT", "FUNDS & ACCOUNTS", "LABORATORIES", "LANDOWNERS", "OCCUPATIONS", "PRESENTED", "PROPERTY", "PUBLIC", "RATIFIED", "REAL ESTATE", "TESTING", "TITLE CHANGE", "VETERINARIANS", "VETERINARY MEDICINE", "REP. BRUBAKER", "FARMLAND PRESERVATION FUND", "CHAPTERED", "FARMLAND PRESERVATION FUND COMM."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 7
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2005-03-10"
last_action: "2005-09-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/eacec1c9-61de-4654-89a9-e7c8fbc6ad1c"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2005&BillID=H607&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "51ca236395b05b790de453516900d4c15b9d8c469fd1a4b7cecbf354330b535d"
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 607 (2005) — Enhanced Voluntary Agricultural Districts.

## 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/H607v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2005/Bills/House/PDF/H607v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2005/Bills/House/PDF/H607v2.pdf)
4. **Edition 3** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2005/Bills/House/PDF/H607v3.pdf)
5. **Edition 4** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2005/Bills/House/PDF/H607v4.pdf)
6. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2005/Bills/House/PDF/H607v5.pdf)
7. **SL2005-390** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2005/Bills/House/PDF/H607v6.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **49–0** (pass) · upper
- M11 Concur — **115–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Brubaker — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2005-09-13** Ch. SL 2005-390 `became-law`
- **2005-09-13** Signed By Gov. 9/13/2005 `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** Com Substitute Adopted
- **2005-08-11** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2005-06-06** Ref To Com On Agriculture/Environment/Natural Resources `referral-committee`
- **2005-06-06** Rec From House
- **2005-06-01** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2005-06-01** Amend Adopted #1 `amendment-passage`
- **2005-05-31** Placed On Cal For 6/1/2005
- **2005-05-31** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2005-05-31** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2005-03-14** Ref To Com On Agriculture `referral-committee`
- **2005-03-10** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/eacec1c9-61de-4654-89a9-e7c8fbc6ad1c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).