---
type: "Bill"
title: "Cherokee County Construction."
description: "Cherokee County Construction."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2007"
identifier: "HB 443"
citation: "North Carolina HB 443 (2007)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["BIDS & BIDDING", "BUILDINGS", "CONSTRUCTION", "CONTRACTS", "COUNTIES", "LOCAL", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "MUNICIPALITIES", "PURCHASING", "RATIFIED", "REP. WEST", "CHEROKEE COUNTY", "CHAPTERED", "MURPHY", "PUBLIC BUILDINGS"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 6
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2007-03-01"
last_action: "2007-05-17"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a4471c99-a9ed-4d0d-992b-fb8e2e016062"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2007&BillID=H443&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "3129875ab56b84b2a9c525c184919cb7069e908b6fbd9e74aeb23a922275c188"
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 443 (2007) — Cherokee County Construction.

## 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/H443v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/House/PDF/H443v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/House/PDF/H443v2.pdf)
4. **Edition 3** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/House/PDF/H443v3.pdf)
5. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/House/PDF/H443v4.pdf)
6. **SL2007-48** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/House/PDF/H443v5.pdf)

## Votes

- M11 Concur — **119–0** (pass) · lower
- Second Reading — **48–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- West — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2007-05-17** Ch. SL 2007-48 `became-law`
- **2007-05-17** Ratified
- **2007-05-16** Concurred In S/Com Sub `amendment-passage`
- **2007-05-15** Placed On Cal For 5/16/2007
- **2007-05-15** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2007-05-15** Rec To Concur S Com Sub
- **2007-05-10** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2007-05-09** Com Substitute Adopted
- **2007-05-09** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2007-04-16** Ref To Com On State & Local Government `referral-committee`
- **2007-04-16** Rec From House
- **2007-04-12** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2007-04-10** Placed On Cal For 4/11/2007
- **2007-04-09** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2007-04-09** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2007-03-05** Ref To Com On Judiciary III `referral-committee`
- **2007-03-05** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2007-03-01** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a4471c99-a9ed-4d0d-992b-fb8e2e016062`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).