---
type: "Bill"
title: "Asheville Housing Authority."
description: "Asheville Housing Authority."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2007"
identifier: "HB 489"
citation: "North Carolina HB 489 (2007)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["AUTHORITIES", "CONSTRUCTION", "CONTRACTS", "COUNTIES", "HOUSING", "LOCAL", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "MUNICIPALITIES", "PUBLIC OFFICIALS", "RATIFIED", "TERM LENGTHS & LIMITS", "TITLE CHANGE", "BUNCOMBE COUNTY", "ASHEVILLE", "CHAPTERED", "REP. GOFORTH", "REP. FISHER", "REP. THOMAS"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Fisher", "Goforth"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2007-03-05"
last_action: "2007-07-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/283a4de1-034c-4605-b9c6-79e4097d9514"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2007&BillID=H489&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "7bd91268941e0c7422995f3f4ca1e8bdcf9fb4c6a09793707a8921749037e128"
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 489 (2007) — Asheville Housing Authority.

## 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/H489v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/House/PDF/H489v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/House/PDF/H489v2.pdf)
4. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/House/PDF/H489v3.pdf)
5. **SL2007-239** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/House/PDF/H489v4.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **44–0** (pass) · upper
- M11 Concur — **116–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Fisher — primary (person)
- Goforth — primary (person)
- Thomas — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2007-07-19** Ch. SL 2007-239 `became-law`
- **2007-07-19** Ratified
- **2007-07-18** Concurred In S/Com Sub `amendment-passage`
- **2007-07-17** Placed On Cal For 7/18/2007
- **2007-07-17** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2007-07-17** Rec To Concur S Com Sub
- **2007-07-12** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2007-07-11** Com Substitute Adopted
- **2007-07-11** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2007-04-02** Ref To Com On State & Local Government `referral-committee`
- **2007-04-02** Rec From House
- **2007-03-29** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2007-03-28** Placed On Cal For 3/29/2007
- **2007-03-28** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2007-03-28** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2007-03-06** Ref To Com On Local Government II `referral-committee`
- **2007-03-06** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2007-03-05** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/283a4de1-034c-4605-b9c6-79e4097d9514`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).