---
type: "Bill"
title: "Modify Onslow County Sales Tax Distribution."
description: "Modify Onslow County Sales Tax Distribution."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2009"
identifier: "HB 63"
citation: "North Carolina HB 63 (2009)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["COMMERCE", "COUNTIES", "FISCAL NOTES", "LOCAL", "PROPERTY", "RATIFIED", "REAL ESTATE", "RETAILING", "REVENUE DEPT.", "TAXATION", "TAXES", "PROPERTY", "TAXES", "SALES & USE", "REP. GRADY", "REP. TUCKER", "ONSLOW COUNTY", "CHAPTERED", "REP. CLEVELAND", "TAX DISTRIBUTION"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Cleveland", "Grady"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 18
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2009-02-04"
last_action: "2009-04-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/50e686b8-deea-4376-85eb-f6a263058e9c"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2009&BillID=H63&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "3adf1b1df8581e2939a0faa5b6388ea907df24aeb8f79921bd5c7a64a6861bb1"
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 63 (2009) — Modify Onslow County Sales Tax Distribution.

## 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/H63v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/House/PDF/H63v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/House/PDF/H63v2.pdf)
4. **Edition 3** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/House/PDF/H63v3.pdf)
5. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/House/PDF/H63v4.pdf)
6. **SL2009-18** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/House/PDF/H63v5.pdf)

## Votes

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

## Sponsors

- Cleveland — primary (person)
- Grady — primary (person)
- Tucker — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2009-04-29** Ch. SL 2009-18 `became-law`
- **2009-04-29** Ratified
- **2009-04-28** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2009-04-22** Placed On Cal For 4/28/2009
- **2009-04-22** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2009-03-31** Ref To Com On Finance `referral-committee`
- **2009-03-31** Rec From House
- **2009-03-30** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2009-03-26** Placed On Cal For 3/30/2009
- **2009-03-26** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2009-03-26** Reptd Fav Com Sub 2 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2009-02-25** Re-ref Com On Finance `referral-committee`
- **2009-02-25** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2009-02-12** Ref to the Com on Local Government I, if favorable, Finance `referral-committee`
- **2009-02-12** Withdrawn From Com
- **2009-02-05** Ref To Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2009-02-05** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2009-02-04** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/50e686b8-deea-4376-85eb-f6a263058e9c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).