---
type: "Bill"
title: "Atty Fees/City or County Action Outside Auth."
description: "Atty Fees/City or County Action Outside Auth."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2011"
identifier: "HB 687"
citation: "North Carolina HB 687 (2011)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ATTORNEYS", "COUNTIES", "COURT COSTS & FEES", "COURTS", "FEES", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "MUNICIPALITIES", "OCCUPATIONS", "PUBLIC", "RATIFIED", "TITLE CHANGE", "REP. BRUBAKER", "CHAPTERED", "REP. BRAWLEY", "REP. LAROQUE", "REP. MOFFITT", "LOCAL ORDINANCES"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brawley", "LaRoque", "Moffitt"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 29
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2011-04-05"
last_action: "2011-06-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8ef9fe94-87cf-4d99-b7fc-b514ab1781fc"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2011&BillID=H687&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "6cbc229ca36f553828a9fd717076ccbf4d2614414d133c2f88274bf3643e0e4a"
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 687 (2011) — Atty Fees/City or County Action Outside Auth.

## 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/H687v0.pdf)
2. **A1: ARF-20-V-3** (committee substitute) — [source](https://webservices.ncleg.net/ViewBillDocument/2011/666/0/H687-ARF-20-V-3)
3. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/House/PDF/H687v1.pdf)
4. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/House/PDF/H687v2.pdf)
5. **Edition 3** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/House/PDF/H687v3.pdf)
6. **Edition 4** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/House/PDF/H687v4.pdf)
7. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/House/PDF/H687v5.pdf)
8. **SL2011-299** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/House/PDF/H687v6.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **49–0** (pass) · upper
- M11 Concur — **114–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Brawley — primary (person)
- LaRoque — primary (person)
- Moffitt — primary (person)
- Brubaker — cosponsor (person)
- Cook — cosponsor (person)
- Faircloth — cosponsor (person)
- Ingle — cosponsor (person)
- Jordan — cosponsor (person)
- McGee — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2011-06-24** Ch. SL 2011-299 `became-law`
- **2011-06-24** Signed By Gov. 6/24/2011 `executive-signature`
- **2011-06-17** Pres. To Gov. 6/17/2011 `executive-receipt`
- **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 Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2011-06-14** Withdrawn From Com
- **2011-05-31** Ref To Com On Judiciary I `referral-committee`
- **2011-05-31** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2011-05-26** Rec From House
- **2011-05-25** Ordered Engrossed
- **2011-05-25** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2011-05-24** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2011-05-24** Amend Adopted 1 `amendment-passage`
- **2011-05-23** Placed On Cal For 5/24/2011
- **2011-05-23** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2011-05-23** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-05-04** Re-ref Com On Judiciary Subcommittee A `referral-committee`
- **2011-05-04** Withdrawn From Com
- **2011-04-07** Ref To Com On Government `referral-committee`
- **2011-04-07** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2011-04-05** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8ef9fe94-87cf-4d99-b7fc-b514ab1781fc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).