---
type: "Bill"
title: "Personal Watercraft Changes."
description: "Personal Watercraft Changes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2005"
identifier: "HB 702"
citation: "North Carolina HB 702 (2005)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["BOATING", "MINORS", "PRESENTED", "PUBLIC", "RATIFIED", "SAFETY", "REP. CRAWFORD", "CHAPTERED"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 6
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2005-03-16"
last_action: "2005-07-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1e516618-7e20-4802-9096-1cbe46c5d9dc"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2005&BillID=H702&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "500df109e080e187ac1f8cc90f2dd8137a92f1031756e1722c4ffd662b90cadf"
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 702 (2005) — Personal Watercraft Changes.

## 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/H702v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2005/Bills/House/PDF/H702v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2005/Bills/House/PDF/H702v2.pdf)
4. **Edition 3** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2005/Bills/House/PDF/H702v3.pdf)
5. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2005/Bills/House/PDF/H702v4.pdf)
6. **SL2005-161** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2005/Bills/House/PDF/H702v5.pdf)

## Votes

- M11 Concur — **92–14** (pass) · lower
- Second Reading — **45–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Crawford — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2005-07-07** Ch. SL 2005-161 `became-law`
- **2005-07-07** Signed By Gov. 7/7/2005 `executive-signature`
- **2005-06-29** Pres. To Gov. 6/29/2005 `executive-receipt`
- **2005-06-28** Ratified
- **2005-06-27** Concurred In S/Com Sub `amendment-passage`
- **2005-06-23** Placed On Cal For 6/27/2005
- **2005-06-23** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2005-06-23** Rec To Concur S Com Sub
- **2005-06-21** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2005-06-20** Com Substitute Adopted
- **2005-06-20** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2005-04-13** Ref To Com On Judiciary I `referral-committee`
- **2005-04-13** Rec From House
- **2005-04-12** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2005-04-07** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2005-04-06** Placed On Cal For 4/7/2005
- **2005-03-31** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2005-03-31** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2005-03-17** Ref To Com On Judiciary I `referral-committee`
- **2005-03-16** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1e516618-7e20-4802-9096-1cbe46c5d9dc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).