---
type: "Bill"
title: "Town of Columbia/Loiter for Drugs."
description: "Town of Columbia/Loiter for Drugs."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2007"
identifier: "HB 1145"
citation: "North Carolina HB 1145 (2007)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES", "COUNTIES", "CRIMES", "LOCAL", "MUNICIPALITIES", "NARCOTICS", "RATIFIED", "REP. OWENS", "TYRRELL COUNTY", "BREVARD", "CHAPTERED", "COLUMBIA"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 5
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2007-03-27"
last_action: "2007-05-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4042755b-7550-4b1a-bf05-0a7d71945565"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2007&BillID=H1145&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "574de3a33226285c4ec3fdec2f71ab6926b47ef726f3f57a52260fefee5ed5a9"
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 1145 (2007) — Town of Columbia/Loiter for Drugs.

## 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/H1145v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/House/PDF/H1145v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/House/PDF/H1145v2.pdf)
4. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/House/PDF/H1145v3.pdf)
5. **SL2007-42** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/House/PDF/H1145v4.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **48–0** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **105–4** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Owens — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2007-05-14** Ch. SL 2007-42 `became-law`
- **2007-05-14** Ratified
- **2007-05-10** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2007-05-09** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2007-05-01** Ref To Com On State & Local Government `referral-committee`
- **2007-05-01** Rec From House
- **2007-04-26** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2007-04-25** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2007-04-25** Amend Adopted 1 `amendment-passage`
- **2007-04-24** Placed On Cal For 4/25/2007
- **2007-04-24** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2007-04-24** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2007-03-28** Ref To Com On Judiciary III `referral-committee`
- **2007-03-28** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2007-03-27** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4042755b-7550-4b1a-bf05-0a7d71945565`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).