---
type: "Bill"
title: "Candidate-Specific Communications."
description: "Candidate-Specific Communications."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2005"
identifier: "HB 966"
citation: "North Carolina HB 966 (2005)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ADVERTISING", "BOARDS", "CAMPAIGN FINANCE", "COMMUNICATIONS", "COUNTIES", "ELECTIONS", "ELECTIONS BOARDS", "LOCAL", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "NOTIFICATION", "PRESENTED", "RATIFIED", "TITLE CHANGE", "REP. LUEBKE", "REP. MILLER", "DURHAM COUNTY", "CHAPTERED"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Miller"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 33
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2005-03-28"
last_action: "2006-08-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/93accaa5-dd63-4232-98a7-86b0586828f6"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2005&BillID=H966&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "aa954e82146b3974ba0b017ef06a21fd2cfc6a0b2a67866d285ca9b20e3bc626"
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 966 (2005) — Candidate-Specific Communications.

## 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/H966v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2005/Bills/House/PDF/H966v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2005/Bills/House/PDF/H966v2.pdf)
4. **Edition 3** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2005/Bills/House/PDF/H966v3.pdf)
5. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2005/Bills/House/PDF/H966v4.pdf)
6. **SL2006-233** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2005/Bills/House/PDF/H966v5.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **38–8** (pass) · upper
- M11 Concur — **79–32** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Miller — primary (person)
- Luebke — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2006-08-13** Ch. SL 2006-233 `became-law`
- **2006-08-13** Signed By Gov. 8/13/2006 `executive-signature`
- **2006-07-27** Pres. To Gov. 7/27/2006 `executive-receipt`
- **2006-07-27** Ratified
- **2006-07-26** Concurred In S/Com Sub `amendment-passage`
- **2006-07-26** Placed On Cal For 7/26/2006
- **2006-07-26** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2006-07-26** Reptd Fav To Concur `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2006-07-25** Re-ref Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2006-07-25** Withdrawn From Comm
- **2006-07-24** Ref To Com On Judiciary II `referral-committee`
- **2006-07-24** Rec To Concur S Com Sub
- **2006-07-20** Engrossed
- **2006-07-20** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2006-07-20** Amend Adopted #2 `amendment-passage`
- **2006-07-20** Amend Adopted #1 `amendment-passage`
- **2006-07-19** Placed On Cal For 7/20/2006
- **2006-07-19** Withdrawn From Cal
- **2006-07-19** Placed On Cal For 7/19/2006
- **2006-07-19** Com Substitute Adopted
- **2006-07-19** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2006-07-07** Re-ref Com On Judiciary I `referral-committee`
- **2006-07-07** Withdrawn From Comm
- **2005-05-18** Re-ref Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2005-05-18** Withdrawn From Comm
- **2005-05-17** Ref To Com On State and Local Government `referral-committee`
- **2005-05-17** Rec From House
- **2005-05-16** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2005-05-12** Placed On Cal For 5/16/2005
- **2005-05-12** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2005-05-12** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2005-03-29** Ref To Com On Local Government I `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/93accaa5-dd63-4232-98a7-86b0586828f6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).