---
type: "Bill"
title: "Clarify Motor Vehicle Licensing Law."
description: "Clarify Motor Vehicle Licensing Law."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2011"
identifier: "SB 438"
citation: "North Carolina SB 438 (2011)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["BOARDS", "COMMERCE", "FRANCHISES", "LICENSES & PERMITS", "MANUFACTURING", "MOTOR VEHICLES", "PRESENTED", "PUBLIC", "RATIFIED", "SALES & CONVEYANCES", "CHAPTERED", "MOTOR VEHICLE DEALERS BOARD", "SEN. APODACA"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 8
action_count: 23
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2011-03-28"
last_action: "2011-06-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e318dbc6-8f03-4c15-8ce1-d8f2f91ddc19"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2011&BillID=S438&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "26892c3605780cfcfbead9a57078059180f83038b4d150fbf63c8b79bccfcf4b"
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 SB 438 (2011) — Clarify Motor Vehicle Licensing Law.

## 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/Senate/PDF/S438v0.pdf)
2. **A1: ASU-5-V-1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://webservices.ncleg.net/ViewBillDocument/2011/861/0/S438-ASU-5-V-1)
3. **A1: ASU-7-V-4** (committee substitute) — [source](https://webservices.ncleg.net/ViewBillDocument/2011/1113/0/S438-ASU-7-V-4)
4. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/Senate/PDF/S438v1.pdf)
5. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/Senate/PDF/S438v2.pdf)
6. **Edition 3** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/Senate/PDF/S438v3.pdf)
7. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/Senate/PDF/S438v4.pdf)
8. **SL2011-290** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/Senate/PDF/S438v5.pdf)

## Votes

- Motion 9\To Concur — **44–0** (pass) · upper
- Second Reading — **113–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Allran — cosponsor (person)
- Apodaca — cosponsor (person)
- Atwater — cosponsor (person)
- Brock — cosponsor (person)
- East — cosponsor (person)
- Jenkins — cosponsor (person)
- Tillman — cosponsor (person)
- Vaughan — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2011-06-24** Ch. SL 2011-290 `became-law`
- **2011-06-24** Signed By Gov. 6/24/2011 `executive-signature`
- **2011-06-16** Pres. To Gov. 6/16/2011 `executive-receipt`
- **2011-06-15** Ratified
- **2011-06-14** Concurred In H Amend `amendment-passage`
- **2011-06-14** Placed On Cal For 6/14/2011
- **2011-06-14** Rec To Concur In H Amend
- **2011-06-13** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2011-06-13** Amend Adopted 1 `amendment-passage`
- **2011-06-09** Placed On Cal For 6/13/2011
- **2011-06-08** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2011-06-08** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-06-07** Ref To Com On Commerce and Job Development Subcommittee on Business and Labor `referral-committee`
- **2011-06-07** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2011-06-06** Engrossed
- **2011-06-06** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2011-06-06** Amend Adopted 1 `amendment-passage`
- **2011-06-02** Placed On Cal For 6/6/2011
- **2011-06-02** Com Substitute Adopted
- **2011-06-02** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-03-29** Ref To Com On Commerce `referral-committee`
- **2011-03-29** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2011-03-28** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e318dbc6-8f03-4c15-8ce1-d8f2f91ddc19`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).