---
type: "Bill"
title: "Roper Elections."
description: "Roper Elections."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2007"
identifier: "HB 472"
citation: "North Carolina HB 472 (2007)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CHARTERS", "COUNTIES", "ELECTIONS", "LOCAL", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "MUNICIPALITIES", "PUBLIC OFFICIALS", "RATIFIED", "SESSION LAWS", "TITLE CHANGE", "WASHINGTON COUNTY", "CHAPTERED", "REP. SPEAR", "ROPER"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 6
action_count: 20
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2007-03-01"
last_action: "2008-07-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6863dfc9-51b6-485b-af90-9b6aeb2cd1d0"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2007&BillID=H472&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "6e8ce4b5002d38183c85cc4d9b699b676e6bcda27df9724ab3a250fdd0c7b3bb"
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 472 (2007) — Roper Elections.

## 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/H472v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/House/PDF/H472v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/House/PDF/H472v2.pdf)
4. **Edition 3** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/House/PDF/H472v3.pdf)
5. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/House/PDF/H472v4.pdf)
6. **SL2008-104** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/House/PDF/H472v5.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **117–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Spear — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2008-07-16** Ch. SL 2008-104 `became-law`
- **2008-07-16** Ratified
- **2008-07-15** Concurred In S/Com Sub `amendment-passage`
- **2008-07-14** Placed On Cal For 7/15/2008
- **2008-07-14** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2008-07-14** Rec To Concur S Com Sub
- **2008-07-14** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2008-07-10** Com Substitute Adopted
- **2008-07-10** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2007-05-23** Ref To Com On State & Local Government `referral-committee`
- **2007-05-23** Rec From House
- **2007-05-22** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2007-05-21** Placed On Cal For 5/22/2007
- **2007-05-21** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2007-05-21** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2007-04-10** Re-ref Com On Election Law and Campaign Finance Reform `referral-committee`
- **2007-04-10** Withdrawn From Comm
- **2007-03-05** Ref to the Com on Local Government I and, if favorable, to the Com on Election Law and Campaign Finance Reform `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/6863dfc9-51b6-485b-af90-9b6aeb2cd1d0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).