---
type: "Bill"
title: "Ban Cell Phone Use by School Bus Drivers."
description: "Ban Cell Phone Use by School Bus Drivers."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2007"
identifier: "HB 183"
citation: "North Carolina HB 183 (2007)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["BUSES", "EDUCATION", "INFRASTRUCTURE", "MOTOR VEHICLES", "PRESENTED", "PUBLIC", "PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION", "RATIFIED", "TELECOMMUNICATIONS", "TELEPHONE", "TITLE CHANGE", "TRANSPORTATION", "CHAPTERED", "REP. RAPP", "TRAFFIC OFFENSES"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Goforth", "Rapp", "Saunders"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 24
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2007-02-14"
last_action: "2007-07-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/04d4dad7-5397-46f3-bc9d-2a9644677b78"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2007&BillID=H183&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "9d3b483d60142402cec968a2a518bfea84fd5caca9e2c0e76c06412c270165cf"
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 183 (2007) — Ban Cell Phone Use by School Bus Drivers.

## 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/H183v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/House/PDF/H183v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/House/PDF/H183v2.pdf)
4. **Edition 3** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/House/PDF/H183v3.pdf)
5. **Edition 4** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/House/PDF/H183v4.pdf)
6. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/House/PDF/H183v5.pdf)
7. **SL2007-261** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/House/PDF/H183v6.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper
- M11 Concur — **113–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Goforth — primary (person)
- Rapp — primary (person)
- Saunders — primary (person)
- Allen — cosponsor (person)
- Barnhart — cosponsor (person)
- Bordsen — cosponsor (person)
- Brisson — cosponsor (person)
- Carney — cosponsor (person)
- Coates — cosponsor (person)
- Cole — cosponsor (person)
- Coleman — cosponsor (person)
- England — cosponsor (person)
- Faison — cosponsor (person)
- Farmer-Butterfield — cosponsor (person)
- Fisher — cosponsor (person)
- Folwell — cosponsor (person)
- Frye — cosponsor (person)
- Glazier — cosponsor (person)
- Gulley — cosponsor (person)
- Harrison — cosponsor (person)
- Holmes — cosponsor (person)
- Kiser — cosponsor (person)
- Luebke — cosponsor (person)
- M. Alexander — cosponsor (person)
- Martin — cosponsor (person)
- McGee — cosponsor (person)
- McLawhorn — cosponsor (person)
- Mobley — cosponsor (person)
- Moore — cosponsor (person)
- Parmon — cosponsor (person)
- Pate — cosponsor (person)
- R. Warren — cosponsor (person)
- Ray — cosponsor (person)
- Ross — cosponsor (person)
- Spear — cosponsor (person)
- Starnes — cosponsor (person)
- Tarleton — cosponsor (person)
- Thomas — cosponsor (person)
- Underhill — cosponsor (person)
- Wainwright — cosponsor (person)
- Walker — cosponsor (person)
- Weiss — cosponsor (person)
- West — cosponsor (person)
- Womble — cosponsor (person)
- Yongue — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2007-07-23** Ch. SL 2007-261 `became-law`
- **2007-07-23** Signed By Gov. 7/23/2007 `executive-signature`
- **2007-07-13** Pres. To Gov. 7/13/2007 `executive-receipt`
- **2007-07-12** Ratified
- **2007-07-12** Concurred In S/Com Sub `amendment-passage`
- **2007-07-11** Placed On Cal For 7/12/2007
- **2007-07-11** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2007-07-11** Rec To Concur S Com Sub
- **2007-07-09** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2007-07-03** Placed On Cal For 7/9/2007
- **2007-07-03** Com Substitute Adopted
- **2007-07-03** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2007-05-21** Ref To Com On Judiciary II (Criminal) `referral-committee`
- **2007-05-21** Rec From House
- **2007-05-16** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2007-05-15** Placed On Cal For 5/16/2007
- **2007-05-15** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2007-05-15** Reptd Fav Com Sub 2 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2007-04-30** Re-ref Com On Judiciary I `referral-committee`
- **2007-04-30** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2007-04-03** Assigned To Education Subcommittee on Pre-School, Elementary and Secondary Education `referral-committee`
- **2007-02-15** Ref to the Com on Education and, if favorable, to the Com on Judiciary I `referral-committee`
- **2007-02-15** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2007-02-14** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/04d4dad7-5397-46f3-bc9d-2a9644677b78`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).