---
type: "Bill"
title: "Burlington Charter Amendment."
description: "Burlington Charter Amendment."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2005"
identifier: "HB 887"
citation: "North Carolina HB 887 (2005)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ADVERTISING", "CHARTERS", "COMMERCE", "COMMUNICATIONS", "INFRASTRUCTURE", "LOCAL", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "MUNICIPALITIES", "RATIFIED", "ROADS & HIGHWAYS", "TRANSPORTATION", "REP. ALLRED", "BURLINGTON", "CHAPTERED"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Allred"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2005-03-23"
last_action: "2005-05-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f131e7cb-e6c0-4863-bfd9-ff6b7dbb0774"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2005&BillID=H887&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "57036dc86d8dd91e946b3881409451eeba330a7e5a79de30e7d932dc36684770"
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 887 (2005) — Burlington Charter 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/H887v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2005/Bills/House/PDF/H887v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2005/Bills/House/PDF/H887v2.pdf)
4. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2005/Bills/House/PDF/H887v3.pdf)
5. **SL2005-30** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2005/Bills/House/PDF/H887v4.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **105–0** (pass) · lower
- Second Reading — **49–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Allred — primary (person)
- Bordsen — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2005-05-09** Ch. SL 2005-30 `became-law`
- **2005-05-09** Ratified
- **2005-05-05** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2005-05-04** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2005-04-18** Ref To Com On State and Local Government `referral-committee`
- **2005-04-18** Rec From House
- **2005-04-14** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2005-04-13** Placed On Cal For 4/14/2005
- **2005-04-07** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2005-04-07** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2005-03-28** Re-ref Com On Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2005-03-28** Withdrawn From Comm
- **2005-03-24** Ref To Com On Local Government I `referral-committee`
- **2005-03-23** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f131e7cb-e6c0-4863-bfd9-ff6b7dbb0774`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).