---
type: "Bill"
title: "Tax Certification - Dare & McDowell."
description: "Tax Certification - Dare & McDowell."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2009"
identifier: "HB 1754"
citation: "North Carolina HB 1754 (2009)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["COUNTIES", "DEBTOR & CREDITOR", "DEEDS", "LOCAL", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "PROPERTY", "PUBLIC RECORDS", "RATIFIED", "REAL ESTATE", "RECORDATION OF INSTRUMENTS", "TAXATION", "TAXES", "PROPERTY", "TITLE CHANGE", "RECORDS", "DARE COUNTY", "MCDOWELL COUNTY", "CHAPTERED", "REP. SPEAR"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 5
action_count: 17
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2010-05-17"
last_action: "2010-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2a0c6562-b8e5-4cb9-ad5f-2099ebf0651a"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2009&BillID=H1754&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "9c2b08e4cb886c9e6a8909fa1d28aae5b44fe3cdf778e4cc3d4fac8e5a480387"
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 1754 (2009) — Tax Certification - Dare & McDowell.

## 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/H1754v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/House/PDF/H1754v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/House/PDF/H1754v2.pdf)
4. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/House/PDF/H1754v3.pdf)
5. **SL2010-44** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/House/PDF/H1754v4.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Spear — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2010-07-01** Ch. SL 2010-44 `became-law`
- **2010-07-01** Ratified
- **2010-06-30** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2010-06-29** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2010-06-23** Ref To Com On Finance `referral-committee`
- **2010-06-23** Rec From House
- **2010-06-22** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2010-06-21** Placed On Cal For 6/22/2010
- **2010-06-17** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2010-06-17** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2010-05-25** Re-ref Com On Finance `referral-committee`
- **2010-05-25** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2010-05-20** Re-ref to the Com on Judiciary II, if favorable, Finance `referral-committee`
- **2010-05-20** Withdrawn From Com
- **2010-05-18** Ref to the Com on Local Government II, if favorable, Finance `referral-committee`
- **2010-05-18** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2010-05-17** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2a0c6562-b8e5-4cb9-ad5f-2099ebf0651a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).