---
type: "Bill"
title: "Military Wartime Veteran Special Plate Change."
description: "Military Wartime Veteran Special Plate Change."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2009"
identifier: "HB 1143"
citation: "North Carolina HB 1143 (2009)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ARMED FORCES", "DMV", "FISCAL NOTES", "LICENSE PLATES", "LICENSES & PERMITS", "MOTOR VEHICLES", "PERSONNEL", "PRESENTED", "PUBLIC", "RATIFIED", "VETERANS", "CHAPTERED", "REP. MARTIN"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dickson", "Martin"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 17
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2009-04-07"
last_action: "2010-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7877607b-49b7-4982-8754-d21372a24c46"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2009&BillID=H1143&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "b920a046d0c4d8b5b9d147c67b596dfa5610857652b7c6da3ce175cb663266da"
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 1143 (2009) — Military Wartime Veteran Special Plate Change.

## 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/2009/Bills/House/PDF/H1143v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/House/PDF/H1143v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/House/PDF/H1143v2.pdf)
4. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/House/PDF/H1143v3.pdf)
5. **SL2010-39** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/House/PDF/H1143v4.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **116–0** (pass) · lower
- Second Reading — **43–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Dickson — primary (person)
- Martin — primary (person)
- E. Floyd — cosponsor (person)
- E. Warren — cosponsor (person)
- Glazier — cosponsor (person)
- Hall — cosponsor (person)
- Harrell — cosponsor (person)
- Harrison — cosponsor (person)
- Killian — cosponsor (person)
- Lucas — cosponsor (person)
- McLawhorn — cosponsor (person)
- Mobley — cosponsor (person)
- Parmon — cosponsor (person)
- Pierce — cosponsor (person)
- Rapp — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2010-07-01** Ch. SL 2010-39 `became-law`
- **2010-07-01** Signed By Gov. 7/1/2010 `executive-signature`
- **2010-06-29** Pres. To Gov. 6/29/2010 `executive-receipt`
- **2010-06-28** Ratified
- **2010-06-24** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2010-06-23** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2009-05-20** Ref To Com On Finance `referral-committee`
- **2009-05-14** Rec From House
- **2009-05-13** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2009-05-12** Placed On Cal For 5/13/2009
- **2009-05-12** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2009-05-12** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2009-04-30** Re-ref Com On Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2009-04-30** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2009-04-08** Ref to the Com on Homeland Security, Military, and Veterans Affairs, if favorable, Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2009-04-08** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2009-04-07** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7877607b-49b7-4982-8754-d21372a24c46`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).