---
type: "Bill"
title: "Cities Enact Fair Housing Ordinances."
description: "Cities Enact Fair Housing Ordinances."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2007"
identifier: "HB 1718"
citation: "North Carolina HB 1718 (2007)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["DISCRIMINATION", "HOUSING", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "MUNICIPALITIES", "PRESENTED", "PUBLIC", "RATIFIED", "CHAPTERED", "REP. JONES", "REP. WILEY"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jones", "Wiley"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 22
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2007-04-18"
last_action: "2007-08-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6beba665-fe1a-4139-83cd-2f4b1525e26b"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2007&BillID=H1718&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "de3108ad10b0d142737fcfe352b1019d80fe0565fb271cb541f9ac9c8b2c24e8"
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 1718 (2007) — Cities Enact Fair Housing Ordinances.

## 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/H1718v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/House/PDF/H1718v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/House/PDF/H1718v2.pdf)
4. **Edition 3** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/House/PDF/H1718v3.pdf)
5. **Edition 4** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/House/PDF/H1718v4.pdf)
6. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/House/PDF/H1718v5.pdf)
7. **SL2007-475** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/House/PDF/H1718v6.pdf)

## Votes

- M11 Concur — **104–0** (pass) · lower
- Second Reading — **48–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Jones — primary (person)
- Wiley — primary (person)
- Adams — cosponsor (person)
- Brown — cosponsor (person)
- Glazier — cosponsor (person)
- Harrison — cosponsor (person)
- Ross — cosponsor (person)
- Womble — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2007-08-29** Ch. SL 2007-475 `became-law`
- **2007-08-29** Signed By Gov. 8/29/2007 `executive-signature`
- **2007-07-28** Pres. To Gov. 7/28/2007 `executive-receipt`
- **2007-07-28** Ratified
- **2007-07-27** Concurred In S/Com Sub `amendment-passage`
- **2007-07-26** Placed On Cal For 7/27/2007
- **2007-07-26** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2007-07-26** Rec To Concur S Com Sub
- **2007-07-25** Engrossed
- **2007-07-25** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2007-07-25** Amend Adopted 1 `amendment-passage`
- **2007-07-24** Com Substitute Adopted
- **2007-07-24** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2007-05-22** Ref To Com On Commerce, Small Business and Entrepreneurship `referral-committee`
- **2007-05-22** Rec From House
- **2007-05-21** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2007-05-17** Placed On Cal For 5/21/2007
- **2007-05-17** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2007-05-17** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2007-04-19** Ref To Com On Judiciary III `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/6beba665-fe1a-4139-83cd-2f4b1525e26b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).