---
type: "Bill"
title: "Matthews Junked/Abandoned Vehicles."
description: "Matthews Junked/Abandoned Vehicles."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2005"
identifier: "HB 963"
citation: "North Carolina HB 963 (2005)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["COUNTIES", "LOCAL", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "MOTOR VEHICLES", "MUNICIPALITIES", "RATIFIED", "SESSION LAWS", "SOLID WASTE", "TRANSPORTATION", "WASTE MANAGEMENT", "REP. GULLEY", "MECKLENBURG COUNTY", "MATTHEWS", "CHAPTERED"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 4
action_count: 12
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2005-03-28"
last_action: "2005-05-02"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4401999a-6db2-4ad7-899f-05be3f55c318"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2005&BillID=H963&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "3153d19c411689e6b36a613faa73ebf3a5955ef6f93a5a6d149919fddc24feba"
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 963 (2005) — Matthews Junked/Abandoned Vehicles.

## 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/H963v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2005/Bills/House/PDF/H963v1.pdf)
3. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2005/Bills/House/PDF/H963v2.pdf)
4. **SL2005-24** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2005/Bills/House/PDF/H963v3.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **44–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Gulley — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2005-05-02** Ch. SL 2005-24 `became-law`
- **2005-05-02** Ratified
- **2005-04-28** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2005-04-27** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2005-04-20** Ref To Com On State and Local Government `referral-committee`
- **2005-04-20** Rec From House
- **2005-04-19** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2005-04-18** Placed On Cal For 4/19/2005
- **2005-04-13** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2005-04-13** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2005-03-29** Ref To Com On Local Government II `referral-committee`
- **2005-03-28** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4401999a-6db2-4ad7-899f-05be3f55c318`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).