---
type: "Bill"
title: "Additional Scotland County Occupancy Tax."
description: "Additional Scotland County Occupancy Tax."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2007"
identifier: "HB 226"
citation: "North Carolina HB 226 (2007)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["COUNTIES", "COUNTY COMMISSIONERS", "HOTELS & MOTELS", "LOCAL", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "RATIFIED", "TAXATION", "TAXES", "OCCUPANCY", "TRAVEL & TOURISM", "REP. YONGUE", "SCOTLAND COUNTY", "CHAPTERED", "REP. PIERCE"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Yongue"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2007-02-15"
last_action: "2007-07-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6194de60-e45e-4edd-ae37-0c89e5107f01"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2007&BillID=H226&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "74bf7c528021bb73682dd2de7d098cee9c5510f6e75372a696f50c057ed6d4fc"
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 226 (2007) — Additional Scotland County Occupancy Tax.

## 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/H226v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/House/PDF/H226v1.pdf)
3. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/House/PDF/H226v2.pdf)
4. **SL2007-203** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/House/PDF/H226v3.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **43–5** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **44–3** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Yongue — primary (person)
- Pierce — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2007-07-10** Ch. SL 2007-203 `became-law`
- **2007-07-10** Ratified
- **2007-07-09** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2007-07-03** Placed On Cal For 7/9/2007
- **2007-07-03** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2007-06-28** Placed On Cal For 7/3/2007
- **2007-06-28** Withdrawn From Cal
- **2007-06-27** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2007-04-23** Ref To Com On Finance `referral-committee`
- **2007-04-23** Rec From House
- **2007-04-19** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2007-04-18** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2007-04-17** Placed On Cal For 4/18/2007
- **2007-04-17** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2007-04-17** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2007-02-28** Re-ref Com On Finance `referral-committee`
- **2007-02-28** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2007-02-19** Ref to the Com on Local Government I and, if favorable, to the Com on Finance `referral-committee`
- **2007-02-19** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2007-02-15** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6194de60-e45e-4edd-ae37-0c89e5107f01`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).