---
type: "Bill"
title: "Increase Penalty/Remove Serial # From Gun."
description: "Increase Penalty/Remove Serial # From Gun."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2009"
identifier: "HB 787"
citation: "North Carolina HB 787 (2009)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["COURTS", "CRIMES", "CRIMINAL PROCEDURE", "PRESENTED", "PUBLIC", "RATIFIED", "SENTENCING", "WEAPONS", "CHAPTERED", "REP. JUSTICE"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Burr", "Gibson", "Justice"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 22
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2009-03-25"
last_action: "2009-06-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7b3a974a-8443-45e7-ac54-ccf79c0bb671"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2009&BillID=H787&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "91a4949051342964379de72a252e740d3be39d6b875362c2147b01cd2d9e0705"
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 787 (2009) — Increase Penalty/Remove Serial # From Gun.

## 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/H787v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/House/PDF/H787v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/House/PDF/H787v2.pdf)
4. **Edition 3** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/House/PDF/H787v3.pdf)
5. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/House/PDF/H787v4.pdf)
6. **SL2009-204** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/House/PDF/H787v5.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **45–3** (pass) · upper
- M11 Concur — **112–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Burr — primary (person)
- Gibson — primary (person)
- Justice — primary (person)
- Barnhart — cosponsor (person)
- Blackwood — cosponsor (person)
- Brown — cosponsor (person)
- Grady — cosponsor (person)
- Harrison — cosponsor (person)
- Justus — cosponsor (person)
- Killian — cosponsor (person)
- Langdon — cosponsor (person)
- Lewis — cosponsor (person)
- R. Warren — cosponsor (person)
- Samuelson — cosponsor (person)
- Spear — cosponsor (person)
- Starnes — cosponsor (person)
- Steen — cosponsor (person)
- Stiller — cosponsor (person)
- Tillis — cosponsor (person)
- Weiss — cosponsor (person)
- Wiley — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2009-06-26** Ch. SL 2009-204 `became-law`
- **2009-06-26** Signed By Gov. 6/26/2009 `executive-signature`
- **2009-06-18** Pres. To Gov. 6/18/2009 `executive-receipt`
- **2009-06-17** Ratified
- **2009-06-16** Concurred In S/Com Sub `amendment-passage`
- **2009-06-12** Placed On Cal For 6/16/2009
- **2009-06-11** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2009-06-11** Rec To Concur S Com Sub
- **2009-06-09** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2009-06-08** Com Substitute Adopted
- **2009-06-08** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2009-05-20** Ref To Com On Judiciary I `referral-committee`
- **2009-05-12** Rec From House
- **2009-05-11** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2009-05-07** Placed On Cal For 5/11/2009
- **2009-05-07** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2009-05-07** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2009-04-30** Re-ref Com On Judiciary II `referral-committee`
- **2009-04-30** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2009-03-26** Ref to the Com on Ways and Means/Broadband Connectivity, if favorable, Judiciary II `referral-committee`
- **2009-03-26** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2009-03-25** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7b3a974a-8443-45e7-ac54-ccf79c0bb671`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).