---
type: "Bill"
title: "Violate Order/Possess Deadly Weapon Felony."
description: "Violate Order/Possess Deadly Weapon Felony."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2007"
identifier: "HB 47"
citation: "North Carolina HB 47 (2007)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["COURTS", "CRIMES", "DOMESTIC VIOLENCE", "FISCAL NOTES", "MARRIAGE & FAMILY", "PRESENTED", "PUBLIC", "RATIFIED", "WEAPONS", "WOMEN", "REP. MCLAWHORN", "CHAPTERED"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Farmer-Butterfield", "McLawhorn", "Ross"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 25
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2007-01-30"
last_action: "2007-07-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/828c2e8b-a501-4dc0-8077-c7d05bed402c"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2007&BillID=H47&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "0379253305404251eb35bdd135c5c49f9d87244559a6db7d949b881de788c66b"
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 47 (2007) — Violate Order/Possess Deadly Weapon Felony.

## 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/H47v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/House/PDF/H47v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/House/PDF/H47v2.pdf)
4. **Edition 3** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/House/PDF/H47v3.pdf)
5. **Edition 4** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/House/PDF/H47v4.pdf)
6. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/House/PDF/H47v5.pdf)
7. **SL2007-190** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/House/PDF/H47v6.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **48–0** (pass) · upper
- M11 Concur — **112–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Farmer-Butterfield — primary (person)
- McLawhorn — primary (person)
- Ross — primary (person)
- Adams — cosponsor (person)
- Bordsen — cosponsor (person)
- Brisson — cosponsor (person)
- Bryant — cosponsor (person)
- Coates — cosponsor (person)
- Crawford — cosponsor (person)
- Dickson — cosponsor (person)
- E. Warren — cosponsor (person)
- Earle — cosponsor (person)
- Faison — cosponsor (person)
- Fisher — cosponsor (person)
- Folwell — cosponsor (person)
- Glazier — cosponsor (person)
- Harrison — cosponsor (person)
- Howard — cosponsor (person)
- Insko — cosponsor (person)
- J. Harrell — cosponsor (person)
- Jeffus — cosponsor (person)
- Lucas — cosponsor (person)
- Luebke — cosponsor (person)
- M. Alexander — cosponsor (person)
- Martin — cosponsor (person)
- McAllister — cosponsor (person)
- McGee — cosponsor (person)
- Parmon — cosponsor (person)
- Pierce — cosponsor (person)
- Ray — cosponsor (person)
- Spear — cosponsor (person)
- Tillis — cosponsor (person)
- Tolson — cosponsor (person)
- Tucker — cosponsor (person)
- Underhill — cosponsor (person)
- Wainwright — cosponsor (person)
- Weiss — cosponsor (person)
- Wiley — cosponsor (person)
- Williams — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2007-07-08** Ch. SL 2007-190 `became-law`
- **2007-07-08** Signed By Gov. 7/8/2007 `executive-signature`
- **2007-06-29** Pres. To Gov. 6/29/2007 `executive-receipt`
- **2007-06-29** Ratified
- **2007-06-28** Concurred In S/Com Sub `amendment-passage`
- **2007-06-27** Placed On Cal For 6/28/2007
- **2007-06-27** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2007-06-27** Rec To Concur S Com Sub
- **2007-06-26** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2007-06-25** Com Substitute Adopted
- **2007-06-25** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2007-05-24** Ref To Com On Judiciary I (Civil) `referral-committee`
- **2007-05-24** Rec From House
- **2007-05-23** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2007-05-23** Amend Adopted 1 `amendment-passage`
- **2007-05-22** Placed On Cal For 5/23/2007
- **2007-05-22** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2007-05-22** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2007-02-28** Re-ref Com On Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2007-02-28** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2007-02-13** Re-ref to the Com on Judiciary I and, if favorable, to the Com on Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2007-02-13** Withdrawn From Comm
- **2007-01-31** Ref To Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2007-01-31** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2007-01-30** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/828c2e8b-a501-4dc0-8077-c7d05bed402c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).