---
type: "Bill"
title: "Property Tax - School Capital Leases."
description: "Property Tax - School Capital Leases."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2007"
identifier: "HB 63"
citation: "North Carolina HB 63 (2007)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["BOARDS", "EDUCATION", "EDUCATION BOARDS", "ELEMENTARY EDUCATION", "KINDERGARTEN", "LEASING", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "PRESENTED", "PROPERTY", "PUBLIC", "RATIFIED", "REAL ESTATE", "SECONDARY EDUCATION", "TAX EXEMPTIONS", "TAXATION", "TAXES", "PROPERTY", "REP. M. ALEXANDER", "REP. BARNHART", "REP. BELL", "REP. HALL", "REP. HOWARD", "REP. JOHNSON", "REP. LUCAS", "REP. WAINWRIGHT", "REP. WEST", "REP. YONGUE", "CHAPTERED", "REP. CARNEY", "REP. ENGLAND", "REP. GOFORTH", "REP. JONES", "REP. WILLIAMS", "REP. COLEMAN", "REP. FOLWELL", "REP. PIERCE", "REP. WILKINS", "REP. WRAY"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Johnson", "Jones", "Yongue"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 17
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2007-02-05"
last_action: "2007-08-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a437a3d0-5d88-4840-803b-79a23de6aa64"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2007&BillID=H63&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "c1d55c0f4728c07f610b5e23703465d380119e9431bab4d97aff431d07170550"
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 63 (2007) — Property Tax - School Capital Leases.

## 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/H63v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/House/PDF/H63v1.pdf)
3. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/House/PDF/H63v2.pdf)
4. **SL2007-477** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/House/PDF/H63v3.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **115–0** (pass) · lower
- Second Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Johnson — primary (person)
- Jones — primary (person)
- Yongue — primary (person)
- Adams — cosponsor (person)
- Barnhart — cosponsor (person)
- Bell — cosponsor (person)
- Blackwood — cosponsor (person)
- Carney — cosponsor (person)
- Coleman — cosponsor (person)
- E. Warren — cosponsor (person)
- England — cosponsor (person)
- Faison — cosponsor (person)
- Fisher — cosponsor (person)
- Folwell — cosponsor (person)
- Glazier — cosponsor (person)
- Goforth — cosponsor (person)
- Hall — cosponsor (person)
- Harrison — cosponsor (person)
- Howard — cosponsor (person)
- Killian — cosponsor (person)
- Lewis — cosponsor (person)
- Lucas — cosponsor (person)
- M. Alexander — cosponsor (person)
- McGee — cosponsor (person)
- McLawhorn — cosponsor (person)
- Mobley — cosponsor (person)
- Neumann — cosponsor (person)
- Pierce — cosponsor (person)
- Rapp — cosponsor (person)
- Saunders — cosponsor (person)
- Wainwright — cosponsor (person)
- Walend — cosponsor (person)
- West — cosponsor (person)
- Wilkins — cosponsor (person)
- Williams — cosponsor (person)
- Womble — cosponsor (person)
- Wray — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2007-08-29** Ch. SL 2007-477 `became-law`
- **2007-08-29** Signed By Gov. 8/29/2007 `executive-signature`
- **2007-08-01** Pres. To Gov. 8/1/2007 `executive-receipt`
- **2007-08-01** Ratified
- **2007-07-31** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2007-07-30** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2007-04-05** Ref To Com On Finance `referral-committee`
- **2007-04-05** Rec From House
- **2007-04-04** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2007-04-03** Placed On Cal For 4/4/2007
- **2007-04-03** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2007-04-03** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2007-02-13** Re-ref Com On Finance `referral-committee`
- **2007-02-13** Withdrawn From Comm
- **2007-02-06** Ref To Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2007-02-06** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2007-02-05** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a437a3d0-5d88-4840-803b-79a23de6aa64`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).