---
type: "Bill"
title: "New Bern Historic Preservation."
description: "New Bern Historic Preservation."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2007"
identifier: "HB 303"
citation: "North Carolina HB 303 (2007)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["COUNTIES", "CULTURAL RESOURCES", "HISTORIC PRESERVATION", "LICENSES & PERMITS", "LOCAL", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "MUNICIPALITIES", "PLANNING & ZONING", "PROPERTY", "RATIFIED", "REP. WAINWRIGHT", "CRAVEN COUNTY", "NEW BERN", "CHAPTERED", "REP. UNDERHILL"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Underhill"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2007-02-21"
last_action: "2007-04-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c155e09e-e0af-4cba-a81f-60c83e2b1f63"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2007&BillID=H303&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "c64ec7ec1e9477e6e96b985ea8ddfb03591568fb70f2d331e38832937af03c48"
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 303 (2007) — New Bern Historic Preservation.

## 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/H303v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/House/PDF/H303v1.pdf)
3. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/House/PDF/H303v2.pdf)
4. **SL2007-32** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/House/PDF/H303v3.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **104–1** (pass) · lower
- Second Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Underhill — primary (person)
- Wainwright — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2007-04-30** Ch. SL 2007-32 `became-law`
- **2007-04-30** Ratified
- **2007-04-26** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2007-04-25** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2007-03-13** Ref To Com On State & Local Government `referral-committee`
- **2007-03-13** Rec From House
- **2007-03-12** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2007-03-08** Placed On Cal For 3/12/2007
- **2007-03-07** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2007-03-07** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2007-02-22** Ref To Com On Local Government II `referral-committee`
- **2007-02-22** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2007-02-21** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c155e09e-e0af-4cba-a81f-60c83e2b1f63`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).