---
type: "Bill"
title: "Amend Burke County Occupancy Tax."
description: "Amend Burke County Occupancy Tax."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2007"
identifier: "HB 78"
citation: "North Carolina HB 78 (2007)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["AUTHORITIES", "HOTELS & MOTELS", "LOCAL", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "MUNICIPALITIES", "RATIFIED", "TAXATION", "TAXES", "OCCUPANCY", "TRAVEL & TOURISM", "REP. CHURCH", "BURKE COUNTY", "MORGANTON", "CHAPTERED", "TOURISM DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITIES"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 5
action_count: 24
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2007-02-06"
last_action: "2007-07-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/71fdfc35-9163-4534-a71f-8bce24465934"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2007&BillID=H78&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "65e9d6e9ccb15f5648ec69d20d2681264a5fbb9a052e1431dca254479b75a42a"
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 78 (2007) — Amend Burke County Occupancy Tax.

## 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/H78v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/House/PDF/H78v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/House/PDF/H78v2.pdf)
4. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/House/PDF/H78v3.pdf)
5. **SL2007-265** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/House/PDF/H78v4.pdf)

## Votes

- M11 Concur\Sen. Amd. 1 — **93–13** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **44–4** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Church — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2007-07-26** Ch. SL 2007-265 `became-law`
- **2007-07-26** Ratified
- **2007-07-25** Concurred In S Amend `amendment-passage`
- **2007-07-24** Placed On Cal For 7/25/2007
- **2007-07-24** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2007-07-24** Rec To Concur In S Amend
- **2007-07-24** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2007-07-23** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2007-07-23** Amend Adopted 1 `amendment-passage`
- **2007-07-19** Placed On Cal For 7/23/2007
- **2007-07-19** Withdrawn From Cal
- **2007-07-18** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2007-06-28** Ref To Com On Finance `referral-committee`
- **2007-06-28** Rec From House
- **2007-06-28** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2007-06-27** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2007-06-26** Placed On Cal For 6/27/2007
- **2007-06-26** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2007-06-26** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2007-02-14** Re-ref Com On Finance `referral-committee`
- **2007-02-14** Withdrawn From Comm
- **2007-02-07** Ref To Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2007-02-07** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2007-02-06** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/71fdfc35-9163-4534-a71f-8bce24465934`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).