---
type: "Bill"
title: "Wildlife Land Property Tax Changes."
description: "Wildlife Land Property Tax Changes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2007"
identifier: "HB 1889"
citation: "North Carolina HB 1889 (2007)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ANIMALS", "COMMITTEES", "CONSERVATION", "COUNTIES", "ENVIRONMENT", "FISH & WILDLIFE", "LANDOWNERS", "PRESENTED", "PROPERTY", "PUBLIC", "RATIFIED", "REAL ESTATE", "REPORTS", "REVENUE LAWS STUDY COMM.", "STUDIES", "TAXATION", "TAXES", "PROPERTY", "CHAPTERED", "REP. HARRISON"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gibson", "Harrison", "Hill"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 27
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2007-04-26"
last_action: "2008-08-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1454c8f4-c3a1-4e3c-abea-8812d62d4973"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2007&BillID=H1889&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "f11ecc1795301774fb8cdb076cb8db424cc18ce70bd200a887b736fc8a3c1abf"
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 1889 (2007) — Wildlife Land Property Tax Changes.

## 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/H1889v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/House/PDF/H1889v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/House/PDF/H1889v2.pdf)
4. **Edition 3** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/House/PDF/H1889v3.pdf)
5. **Edition 4** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/House/PDF/H1889v4.pdf)
6. **Edition 5** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/House/PDF/H1889v5.pdf)
7. **Edition 6** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/House/PDF/H1889v6.pdf)
8. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/House/PDF/H1889v7.pdf)
9. **SL2008-171** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/House/PDF/H1889v8.pdf)

## Votes

- Amendment 1 — **44–0** (pass) · upper
- M11 Concur — **107–4** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Gibson — primary (person)
- Harrison — primary (person)
- Hill — primary (person)
- Bell — cosponsor (person)
- Blust — cosponsor (person)
- Bordsen — cosponsor (person)
- Boylan — cosponsor (person)
- Braxton — cosponsor (person)
- Brown — cosponsor (person)
- Brubaker — cosponsor (person)
- Bryant — cosponsor (person)
- Carney — cosponsor (person)
- Church — cosponsor (person)
- Clary — cosponsor (person)
- Cleveland — cosponsor (person)
- Coates — cosponsor (person)
- Coleman — cosponsor (person)
- Cotham — cosponsor (person)
- Cunningham — cosponsor (person)
- Current — cosponsor (person)
- Daughtridge — cosponsor (person)
- Dickson — cosponsor (person)
- Dockham — cosponsor (person)
- England — cosponsor (person)
- Faison — cosponsor (person)
- Farmer-Butterfield — cosponsor (person)
- Fisher — cosponsor (person)
- Frye — cosponsor (person)
- Glazier — cosponsor (person)
- Goforth — cosponsor (person)
- Grady — cosponsor (person)
- Gulley — cosponsor (person)
- Haire — cosponsor (person)
- Hall — cosponsor (person)
- Holliman — cosponsor (person)
- Howard — cosponsor (person)
- Hurley — cosponsor (person)
- Insko — cosponsor (person)
- J. Harrell — cosponsor (person)
- Jeffus — cosponsor (person)
- Justice — cosponsor (person)
- Justus — cosponsor (person)
- Lewis — cosponsor (person)
- Love — cosponsor (person)
- Lucas — cosponsor (person)
- M. Alexander — cosponsor (person)
- Martin — cosponsor (person)
- McAllister — cosponsor (person)
- McComas — cosponsor (person)
- McGee — cosponsor (person)
- McLawhorn — cosponsor (person)
- Mobley — cosponsor (person)
- Neumann — cosponsor (person)
- Pate — cosponsor (person)
- Pierce — cosponsor (person)
- Rapp — cosponsor (person)
- Ray — cosponsor (person)
- Ross — cosponsor (person)
- Samuelson — cosponsor (person)
- Setzer — cosponsor (person)
- Stam — cosponsor (person)
- Starnes — cosponsor (person)
- Steen — cosponsor (person)
- Stiller — cosponsor (person)
- Sutton — cosponsor (person)
- T. Harrell — cosponsor (person)
- Tarleton — cosponsor (person)
- Thomas — cosponsor (person)
- Tillis — cosponsor (person)
- Tolson — cosponsor (person)
- Tucker — cosponsor (person)
- Underhill — cosponsor (person)
- Wainwright — cosponsor (person)
- Walend — cosponsor (person)
- Walker — cosponsor (person)
- Weiss — cosponsor (person)
- West — cosponsor (person)
- Wiley — cosponsor (person)
- Wilkins — cosponsor (person)
- Williams — cosponsor (person)
- Womble — cosponsor (person)
- Wray — cosponsor (person)
- Yongue — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2008-08-04** Ch. SL 2008-171 `became-law`
- **2008-08-04** Signed By Gov. 8/4/2008 `executive-signature`
- **2008-07-16** Pres. To Gov. 7/16/2008 `executive-receipt`
- **2008-07-16** Ratified
- **2008-07-16** Concurred In S/Com Sub `amendment-passage`
- **2008-07-15** Placed On Cal For 7/16/2008
- **2008-07-15** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2008-07-15** Rec To Concur S Com Sub
- **2008-07-14** Engrossed
- **2008-07-14** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2008-07-14** Amend Adopted #1 `amendment-passage`
- **2008-07-10** Com Substitute Adopted
- **2008-07-10** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2007-08-02** Ref To Com On Finance `referral-committee`
- **2007-08-02** Rec From House
- **2007-08-01** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2007-08-01** Amend Adopted 4 `amendment-passage`
- **2007-08-01** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2007-08-01** Amend Failed 3 `amendment-failure`
- **2007-08-01** Amend Failed 2 `amendment-failure`
- **2007-08-01** Amend Adopted 1 `amendment-passage`
- **2007-07-31** Placed On Cal For 8/1/2007
- **2007-07-31** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2007-07-31** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2007-04-30** Ref To Com On Finance `referral-committee`
- **2007-04-30** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2007-04-26** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1454c8f4-c3a1-4e3c-abea-8812d62d4973`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).