---
type: "Bill"
title: "Wilmington Council/Mayor Pro Tem."
description: "Wilmington Council/Mayor Pro Tem."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2007"
identifier: "HB 710"
citation: "North Carolina HB 710 (2007)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CHARTERS", "CITY COUNCILS", "COUNTIES", "LOCAL", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "MAYORS", "MUNICIPALITIES", "PUBLIC OFFICIALS", "RATIFIED", "SESSION LAWS", "REP. MCCOMAS", "REP. WRIGHT", "NEW HANOVER COUNTY", "WILMINGTON", "CHAPTERED", "REP. JUSTICE"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Justice", "McComas"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2007-03-14"
last_action: "2008-06-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bd3bf609-d06e-4ff9-ae54-93de26e9ae7d"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2007&BillID=H710&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "9d85d551761cdb8c62a53ba14bad819e401e5a9f21fee732a5476d0cddd48ccb"
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 710 (2007) — Wilmington Council/Mayor Pro Tem.

## 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/H710v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/House/PDF/H710v1.pdf)
3. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/House/PDF/H710v2.pdf)
4. **SL2008-1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/House/PDF/H710v3.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **114–0** (pass) · lower
- Second Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Justice — primary (person)
- McComas — primary (person)
- Wright — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2008-06-09** Ch. SL 2008-1 `became-law`
- **2008-06-09** Ratified
- **2008-06-05** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2008-06-04** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2007-05-07** Ref To Com On State & Local Government `referral-committee`
- **2007-05-07** Rec From House
- **2007-05-03** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2007-05-02** Placed On Cal For 5/3/2007
- **2007-05-02** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2007-05-02** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2007-03-15** Ref To Com On Local Government I `referral-committee`
- **2007-03-15** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2007-03-14** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/bd3bf609-d06e-4ff9-ae54-93de26e9ae7d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).