---
type: "Bill"
title: "Allow Conover to Regulate Golf Carts."
description: "Allow Conover to Regulate Golf Carts."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2007"
identifier: "HB 254"
citation: "North Carolina HB 254 (2007)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["COUNTIES", "LOCAL", "MOTOR VEHICLES", "MUNICIPALITIES", "RATIFIED", "SESSION LAWS", "REP. HILTON", "CATAWBA COUNTY", "CHAPTERED", "CONOVER", "UNREGULATED VEHICLES"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 6
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2007-02-16"
last_action: "2007-07-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9b48a898-0270-49f3-8285-34a02179b6e5"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2007&BillID=H254&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "dfd99c25b2af47f6dd59d84715f2cde08a4a5b08bb7ad3911b020cb50460536f"
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 254 (2007) — Allow Conover to Regulate Golf Carts.

## 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/H254v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/House/PDF/H254v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/House/PDF/H254v2.pdf)
4. **Edition 3** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/House/PDF/H254v3.pdf)
5. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/House/PDF/H254v4.pdf)
6. **SL2007-259** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/House/PDF/H254v5.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **107–0** (pass) · lower
- Second Reading — **48–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Hilton — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2007-07-23** Ch. SL 2007-259 `became-law`
- **2007-07-23** Ratified
- **2007-07-19** Concurred In S/Com Sub `amendment-passage`
- **2007-07-18** Placed On Cal For 7/19/2007
- **2007-07-18** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2007-07-18** Rec To Concur S Com Sub
- **2007-07-18** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2007-07-17** Com Substitute Adopted
- **2007-07-17** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2007-03-19** Ref To Com On State & Local Government `referral-committee`
- **2007-03-19** Rec From House
- **2007-03-15** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2007-03-14** Placed On Cal For 3/15/2007
- **2007-03-14** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2007-03-14** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2007-02-20** Ref To Com On Local Government II `referral-committee`
- **2007-02-20** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2007-02-16** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9b48a898-0270-49f3-8285-34a02179b6e5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).