---
type: "Bill"
title: "Durham County Meals Tax."
description: "Durham County Meals Tax."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2007"
identifier: "HB 2690"
citation: "North Carolina HB 2690 (2007)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ELECTIONS", "FOOD SERVICES", "FOODS & BEVERAGES", "LOCAL", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "RATIFIED", "REFERENDUMS & INITIATIVES", "TAXATION", "TAXES", "FOOD", "REP. HALL", "REP. LUEBKE", "REP. MICHAUX", "CHAPTERED", "REP. WILKINS"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hall", "Luebke", "Michaux"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2008-05-27"
last_action: "2008-07-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c0841d3f-2f4a-4be5-ad61-862b055f5e3c"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2007&BillID=H2690&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "a11835c006e78e4f79d2d718734ae5c894561d0da88ff80ef64c8bc68881ff12"
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 2690 (2007) — Durham County Meals 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/H2690v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/House/PDF/H2690v1.pdf)
3. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/House/PDF/H2690v2.pdf)
4. **SL2008-116** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/House/PDF/H2690v3.pdf)

## Votes

- Amendment 1 — **19–25** (fail) · upper
- Third Reading — **22–19** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Hall — primary (person)
- Luebke — primary (person)
- Michaux — primary (person)
- Hughes — cosponsor (person)
- Wilkins — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2008-07-18** Ch. SL 2008-116 `became-law`
- **2008-07-18** Ratified
- **2008-07-17** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2008-07-17** Amend Failed #1 `amendment-failure`
- **2008-07-16** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2008-07-16** Reconsidered 2nd Reading
- **2008-07-16** Failed 2nd Reading
- **2008-07-16** Placed On Cal For 7/16/2008
- **2008-07-16** Withdrawn From Cal
- **2008-07-16** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2008-07-08** Ref To Com On Finance `referral-committee`
- **2008-07-08** Rec From House
- **2008-07-08** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2008-07-07** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2008-07-03** Placed On Cal For 7/7/2008
- **2008-07-03** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2008-07-03** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2008-05-28** Ref To Com On Finance `referral-committee`
- **2008-05-28** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2008-05-27** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c0841d3f-2f4a-4be5-ad61-862b055f5e3c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).