---
type: "Bill"
title: "Modify Mecklenburg County Local Taxes."
description: "Modify Mecklenburg County Local Taxes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2011"
identifier: "HB 508"
citation: "North Carolina HB 508 (2011)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["BUDGETING", "COUNTIES", "FUNDING", "HOTELS & MOTELS", "LOCAL", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "MUNICIPALITIES", "RATIFIED", "SESSION LAWS", "TAXATION", "TAXES", "OCCUPANCY", "TRAVEL & TOURISM", "REP. EARLE", "MECKLENBURG COUNTY", "CHARLOTTE", "CORNELIUS", "DAVIDSON", "HUNTERSVILLE", "CHAPTERED", "TAX DISTRIBUTION"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Earle", "R. Moore"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 24
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2011-03-29"
last_action: "2011-06-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0916ef87-6037-445c-a516-bebe87750810"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2011&BillID=H508&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "72ce504c4c147c30f48590d86e87fed049020eecb0150d84df137e3d739dcbe9"
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 508 (2011) — Modify Mecklenburg County Local Taxes.

## 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/H508v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/House/PDF/H508v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/House/PDF/H508v2.pdf)
4. **Edition 3** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/House/PDF/H508v3.pdf)
5. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/House/PDF/H508v4.pdf)
6. **SL2011-160** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/House/PDF/H508v5.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Earle — primary (person)
- R. Moore — primary (person)
- M. Alexander — cosponsor (person)
- Samuelson — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2011-06-16** Ch. SL 2011-160 `became-law`
- **2011-06-16** Ratified
- **2011-06-16** Concurred In S/Com Sub `amendment-passage`
- **2011-06-15** Placed On Cal For 6/16/2011
- **2011-06-15** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2011-06-15** Rec To Concur S Com Sub
- **2011-06-15** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2011-06-15** Placed On Cal For 6/15/2011
- **2011-06-15** Com Substitute Adopted
- **2011-06-15** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-06-14** Re-ref Com On Finance `referral-committee`
- **2011-06-14** Withdrawn From Com
- **2011-06-10** Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2011-06-10** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2011-06-10** Rec From House
- **2011-06-09** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2011-06-09** Placed On Cal For 6/9/2011
- **2011-06-09** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2011-06-09** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-04-14** Re-ref Com On Finance `referral-committee`
- **2011-04-14** Withdrawn From Com
- **2011-03-30** Ref to the Com on Government, if favorable, Finance `referral-committee`
- **2011-03-30** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2011-03-29** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0916ef87-6037-445c-a516-bebe87750810`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).