---
type: "Bill"
title: "Increase Penalties for Air Pollution."
description: "Increase Penalties for Air Pollution."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2007"
identifier: "HB 1646"
citation: "North Carolina HB 1646 (2007)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["DENR", "ENVIRONMENT", "FINES & PENALTIES", "POLLUTION", "PRESENTED", "PUBLIC", "RATIFIED", "REP. GIBSON", "CHAPTERED", "REP. ALLEN"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Allen"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 24
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2007-04-18"
last_action: "2007-07-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/49cdc62e-012a-40ae-9d54-db06f2d0e355"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2007&BillID=H1646&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "e14c0863fa88d7d09e6b374a68331a472fd4f100c53a9bc10c9dc909355021da"
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 1646 (2007) — Increase Penalties for Air Pollution.

## 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/H1646v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/House/PDF/H1646v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/House/PDF/H1646v2.pdf)
4. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/House/PDF/H1646v3.pdf)
5. **SL2007-296** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/House/PDF/H1646v4.pdf)

## Votes

- M11 Concur — **77–39** (pass) · lower
- Second Reading — **43–3** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Allen — primary (person)
- Brown — cosponsor (person)
- Faison — cosponsor (person)
- Gibson — cosponsor (person)
- Harrison — cosponsor (person)
- Insko — cosponsor (person)
- Weiss — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2007-07-28** Ch. SL 2007-296 `became-law`
- **2007-07-28** Signed By Gov. 7/28/2007 `executive-signature`
- **2007-07-20** Pres. To Gov. 7/20/2007 `executive-receipt`
- **2007-07-19** Ratified
- **2007-07-18** Concurred In S/Com Sub `amendment-passage`
- **2007-07-17** Placed On Cal For 7/18/2007
- **2007-07-17** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2007-07-17** Rec To Concur S Com Sub
- **2007-07-12** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2007-07-11** Com Substitute Adopted
- **2007-07-11** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2007-06-12** Re-ref Com On Finance `referral-committee`
- **2007-06-12** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2007-05-21** Ref to Agriculture/Environment/Natural Resources. If fav, re-ref to Finance `referral-committee`
- **2007-05-21** Rec From House
- **2007-05-16** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2007-05-15** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2007-05-14** Placed On Cal For 5/15/2007
- **2007-05-09** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2007-05-09** Serial Referral is Stricken
- **2007-05-09** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2007-04-19** Ref to the Com on Environment and Natural Resources and, if favorable, to the Com on Finance `referral-committee`
- **2007-04-19** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2007-04-18** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/49cdc62e-012a-40ae-9d54-db06f2d0e355`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).