---
type: "Bill"
title: "Modify Laws for Desecrating Graves."
description: "Modify Laws for Desecrating Graves."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2007"
identifier: "HB 105"
citation: "North Carolina HB 105 (2007)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CEMETERIES", "CRIMES", "FISCAL NOTES", "PRESENTED", "PUBLIC", "RATIFIED", "REP. JUSTUS", "CHAPTERED"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Johnson", "Justus", "Spear"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 17
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2007-02-07"
last_action: "2007-06-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d63cfc82-e2f2-47b2-80c2-e78534b4a54e"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2007&BillID=H105&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "7bc18004aa84d71a01046fbe8225d870e85c77e7e0c1a528727f6944e073c2a6"
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 105 (2007) — Modify Laws for Desecrating Graves.

## 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/2007/Bills/House/PDF/H105v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/House/PDF/H105v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/House/PDF/H105v2.pdf)
4. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/House/PDF/H105v3.pdf)
5. **SL2007-122** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/House/PDF/H105v4.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper
- Second Reading — **115–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Johnson — primary (person)
- Justus — primary (person)
- Spear — primary (person)
- Barnhart — cosponsor (person)
- Brubaker — cosponsor (person)
- Church — cosponsor (person)
- Coates — cosponsor (person)
- Cunningham — cosponsor (person)
- E. Warren — cosponsor (person)
- England — cosponsor (person)
- Frye — cosponsor (person)
- Glazier — cosponsor (person)
- Gulley — cosponsor (person)
- Harrison — cosponsor (person)
- Hill — cosponsor (person)
- Holliman — cosponsor (person)
- Howard — cosponsor (person)
- Hurley — cosponsor (person)
- Kiser — cosponsor (person)
- Langdon — cosponsor (person)
- Love — cosponsor (person)
- Lucas — cosponsor (person)
- McElraft — cosponsor (person)
- McGee — cosponsor (person)
- Mobley — cosponsor (person)
- Pate — cosponsor (person)
- R. Warren — cosponsor (person)
- Rapp — cosponsor (person)
- Ray — cosponsor (person)
- Ross — cosponsor (person)
- Steen — cosponsor (person)
- Sutton — cosponsor (person)
- Tucker — cosponsor (person)
- Wainwright — cosponsor (person)
- Walker — cosponsor (person)
- West — cosponsor (person)
- Womble — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2007-06-27** Ch. SL 2007-122 `became-law`
- **2007-06-27** Signed By Gov. 6/27/2007 `executive-signature`
- **2007-06-20** Pres. To Gov. 6/20/2007 `executive-receipt`
- **2007-06-19** Ratified
- **2007-06-18** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2007-06-14** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2007-04-26** Ref To Com On Commerce, Small Business and Entrepreneurship `referral-committee`
- **2007-04-26** Rec From House
- **2007-04-25** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2007-04-24** Placed On Cal For 4/25/2007
- **2007-04-24** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2007-04-24** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2007-02-14** Re-ref Com On Judiciary III `referral-committee`
- **2007-02-14** Withdrawn From Comm
- **2007-02-08** Ref To Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2007-02-08** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2007-02-07** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d63cfc82-e2f2-47b2-80c2-e78534b4a54e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).