---
type: "Bill"
title: "Immunity/Vets Reporting Animal Cruelty."
description: "Immunity/Vets Reporting Animal Cruelty."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2007"
identifier: "HB 1359"
citation: "North Carolina HB 1359 (2007)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ANIMALS", "NOTIFICATION", "OCCUPATIONS", "PRESENTED", "PUBLIC", "RATIFIED", "VETERINARIANS", "VETERINARY MEDICINE", "LIABILITY", "CHAPTERED", "REP. WILEY"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hurley", "McElraft", "Wiley"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2007-04-05"
last_action: "2007-07-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cda46f41-3334-4ede-aa23-20ec447418df"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2007&BillID=H1359&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "3a539ab7c53d21578a84037aceb567d3b919ec5da28b2701c06502fa8eb666fc"
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 1359 (2007) — Immunity/Vets Reporting Animal Cruelty.

## 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/H1359v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/House/PDF/H1359v1.pdf)
3. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/House/PDF/H1359v2.pdf)
4. **SL2007-232** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/House/PDF/H1359v3.pdf)

## Votes

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

## Sponsors

- Hurley — primary (person)
- McElraft — primary (person)
- Wiley — primary (person)
- Adams — cosponsor (person)
- Allen — cosponsor (person)
- Barnhart — cosponsor (person)
- Blue — cosponsor (person)
- Blust — cosponsor (person)
- Brisson — cosponsor (person)
- Brown — cosponsor (person)
- Carney — cosponsor (person)
- Cleveland — cosponsor (person)
- Coates — cosponsor (person)
- Coleman — cosponsor (person)
- Cotham — cosponsor (person)
- Current — cosponsor (person)
- Daughtry — cosponsor (person)
- Dockham — cosponsor (person)
- Dollar — cosponsor (person)
- Fisher — cosponsor (person)
- Glazier — cosponsor (person)
- Goodwin — cosponsor (person)
- Grady — cosponsor (person)
- Gulley — cosponsor (person)
- Harrison — cosponsor (person)
- Hilton — cosponsor (person)
- Jeffus — cosponsor (person)
- Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Jones — cosponsor (person)
- Justice — cosponsor (person)
- Langdon — cosponsor (person)
- Lewis — cosponsor (person)
- McGee — cosponsor (person)
- Mobley — cosponsor (person)
- Moore — cosponsor (person)
- Neumann — cosponsor (person)
- Parmon — cosponsor (person)
- Pate — cosponsor (person)
- Pierce — cosponsor (person)
- R. Warren — cosponsor (person)
- Ray — cosponsor (person)
- Ross — cosponsor (person)
- Samuelson — cosponsor (person)
- Stiller — cosponsor (person)
- T. Harrell — cosponsor (person)
- Thomas — cosponsor (person)
- Underhill — cosponsor (person)
- Walend — cosponsor (person)
- Walker — cosponsor (person)
- West — cosponsor (person)
- Wray — cosponsor (person)
- Wright — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2007-07-18** Ch. SL 2007-232 `became-law`
- **2007-07-18** Signed By Gov. 7/18/2007 `executive-signature`
- **2007-07-10** Pres. To Gov. 7/10/2007 `executive-receipt`
- **2007-07-09** Ratified
- **2007-07-03** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2007-06-28** Placed On Cal For 7/3/2007
- **2007-06-28** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2007-04-26** Ref To Com On Judiciary II (Criminal) `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 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2007-04-09** Ref To Com On Judiciary III `referral-committee`
- **2007-04-09** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2007-04-05** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/cda46f41-3334-4ede-aa23-20ec447418df`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).