---
type: "Bill"
title: "Public Vehicular Areas Defined."
description: "Public Vehicular Areas Defined."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2007"
identifier: "HB 976"
citation: "North Carolina HB 976 (2007)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["DEFINITIONS", "INFRASTRUCTURE", "MOTOR VEHICLES", "PRESENTED", "PUBLIC", "RATIFIED", "ROADS & HIGHWAYS", "TRANSPORTATION", "CHAPTERED", "REP. BOYLAN"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 7
action_count: 22
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2007-03-21"
last_action: "2007-08-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/eae810dc-6168-46cd-8d5f-f95aeb72e7b6"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2007&BillID=H976&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "cfcd085dda81dc7a6379f8891c9c6ecc08fecfad1d22b136ed461245393d46ff"
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 976 (2007) — Public Vehicular Areas Defined.

## 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/H976v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/House/PDF/H976v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/House/PDF/H976v2.pdf)
4. **Edition 3** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/House/PDF/H976v3.pdf)
5. **Edition 4** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/House/PDF/H976v4.pdf)
6. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/House/PDF/H976v5.pdf)
7. **SL2007-455** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/House/PDF/H976v6.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **48–0** (pass) · upper
- M11 Concur — **108–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Allen — cosponsor (person)
- Almond — cosponsor (person)
- Avila — cosponsor (person)
- Barnhart — cosponsor (person)
- Blue — cosponsor (person)
- Bordsen — cosponsor (person)
- Boylan — cosponsor (person)
- Braxton — cosponsor (person)
- Brisson — cosponsor (person)
- Brown — cosponsor (person)
- Brubaker — cosponsor (person)
- Bryant — cosponsor (person)
- Cleveland — cosponsor (person)
- Crawford — cosponsor (person)
- Current — cosponsor (person)
- Daughtry — cosponsor (person)
- Dickson — cosponsor (person)
- Dockham — cosponsor (person)
- Faison — cosponsor (person)
- Farmer-Butterfield — cosponsor (person)
- Fisher — cosponsor (person)
- Glazier — cosponsor (person)
- Gulley — cosponsor (person)
- Haire — cosponsor (person)
- Hall — cosponsor (person)
- Harrison — cosponsor (person)
- Hilton — cosponsor (person)
- Holliman — cosponsor (person)
- Hurley — cosponsor (person)
- Justice — cosponsor (person)
- Langdon — cosponsor (person)
- Lewis — cosponsor (person)
- Lucas — cosponsor (person)
- Luebke — cosponsor (person)
- Martin — cosponsor (person)
- McAllister — cosponsor (person)
- McElraft — cosponsor (person)
- Neumann — cosponsor (person)
- R. Warren — cosponsor (person)
- Ross — cosponsor (person)
- Samuelson — cosponsor (person)
- Starnes — cosponsor (person)
- Sutton — cosponsor (person)
- T. Harrell — cosponsor (person)
- Tarleton — cosponsor (person)
- Thomas — cosponsor (person)
- Tillis — cosponsor (person)
- Tolson — cosponsor (person)
- Walend — cosponsor (person)
- Weiss — cosponsor (person)
- West — cosponsor (person)
- Wiley — cosponsor (person)
- Wilkins — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2007-08-28** Ch. SL 2007-455 `became-law`
- **2007-08-28** Signed By Gov. 8/28/2007 `executive-signature`
- **2007-07-26** Pres. To Gov. 7/26/2007 `executive-receipt`
- **2007-07-26** Ratified
- **2007-07-25** Concurred In S/Com Sub `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 S Com Sub
- **2007-07-24** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2007-07-23** Com Substitute Adopted
- **2007-07-23** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2007-05-23** Ref To Com On Judiciary I (Civil) `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 Sub 2 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2007-04-19** Re-ref Com On Judiciary I `referral-committee`
- **2007-04-19** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2007-03-22** Ref to the Com on Transportation and, if favorable, to the Com on Judiciary I `referral-committee`
- **2007-03-22** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2007-03-21** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/eae810dc-6168-46cd-8d5f-f95aeb72e7b6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).