---
type: "Bill"
title: "Commercial Real Estate Broker Lien Act."
description: "Commercial Real Estate Broker Lien Act."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2011"
identifier: "HB 174"
citation: "North Carolina HB 174 (2011)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["COMMERCE", "COMMISSIONS", "DEBTOR & CREDITOR", "LICENSING & CERTIFICATION", "LIENS", "OCCUPATIONS", "PRESENTED", "PUBLIC", "RATIFIED", "REAL ESTATE", "REAL ESTATE COMN.", "REP. DAUGHTRY", "REP. GIBSON", "CHAPTERED", "REP. MCCORMICK"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Daughtry", "Gibson", "McCormick"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 22
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2011-02-23"
last_action: "2011-06-17"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b59f9ea3-4d52-41c4-ae0b-44c8c0a9574c"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2011&BillID=H174&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "b4ffa559911806af0729449b4cb29620fe563abcb60e1b0afa17319aa89d63b8"
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 174 (2011) — Commercial Real Estate Broker Lien Act.

## 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/2011/Bills/House/PDF/H174v0.pdf)
2. **A1: ARF-32-V-3** (committee substitute) — [source](https://webservices.ncleg.net/ViewBillDocument/2011/884/0/H174-ARF-32-V-3)
3. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/House/PDF/H174v1.pdf)
4. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/House/PDF/H174v2.pdf)
5. **Edition 3** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/House/PDF/H174v3.pdf)
6. **Edition 4** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/House/PDF/H174v4.pdf)
7. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/House/PDF/H174v5.pdf)
8. **SL2011-165** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/House/PDF/H174v6.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper
- Second Reading — **107–11** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Daughtry — primary (person)
- Gibson — primary (person)
- McCormick — primary (person)
- Boles — cosponsor (person)
- Crawford — cosponsor (person)
- Faircloth — cosponsor (person)
- Howard — cosponsor (person)
- Ingle — cosponsor (person)
- K. Alexander — cosponsor (person)
- L. Brown — cosponsor (person)
- LaRoque — cosponsor (person)
- Murry — cosponsor (person)
- R. Brown — cosponsor (person)
- Samuelson — cosponsor (person)
- Spear — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2011-06-17** Ch. SL 2011-165 `became-law`
- **2011-06-17** Signed By Gov. 6/17/2011 `executive-signature`
- **2011-06-16** Pres. To Gov. 6/16/2011 `executive-receipt`
- **2011-06-15** Ratified
- **2011-06-14** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2011-06-14** Placed On Cal For 6/14/2011
- **2011-06-14** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-06-13** Ref To Com On Commerce `referral-committee`
- **2011-06-08** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2011-06-08** Rec From House
- **2011-06-07** Ordered Engrossed
- **2011-06-07** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2011-06-07** Amend Adopted 1 `amendment-passage`
- **2011-06-06** Placed On Cal For 6/7/2011
- **2011-06-06** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2011-06-06** Reptd Fav Com Sub 2 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-03-17** Re-ref Com On Judiciary Subcommittee A `referral-committee`
- **2011-03-17** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-03-10** Assigned To Commerce and Job Development Subcommittee on Business and Labor `referral-committee`
- **2011-02-24** Ref to the Com on Commerce and Job Development, if favorable, Judiciary Subcommittee A `referral-committee`
- **2011-02-24** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2011-02-23** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b59f9ea3-4d52-41c4-ae0b-44c8c0a9574c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).