---
type: "Bill"
title: "Asheville Regional Airport."
description: "Asheville Regional Airport."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2013"
identifier: "HB 1247"
citation: "North Carolina HB 1247 (2013)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["AIRPORTS", "AUTHORITIES", "AVIATION", "COUNTIES", "EMINENT DOMAIN", "LOCAL", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "MEMBERSHIP", "MUNICIPALITIES", "PROPERTY", "PUBLIC OFFICIALS", "RATIFIED", "SESSION LAWS", "TRANSPORTATION", "BUNCOMBE COUNTY", "ASHEVILLE", "CHAPTERED"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Fisher", "McGrady", "Moffitt"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 24
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2014-05-28"
last_action: "2014-07-02"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b8bf6cbc-3451-4cef-b175-2610dfd0db05"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2013&BillID=H1247&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "73a4713fb880ee81dc7415a848cdfc307cd96128bf72f5e112d34fdbe986eb75"
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 1247 (2013) — Asheville Regional Airport.

## 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/2013/Bills/House/PDF/H1247v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2013/Bills/House/PDF/H1247v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2013/Bills/House/PDF/H1247v2.pdf)
4. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2013/Bills/House/PDF/H1247v3.pdf)
5. **SL2014-52** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2013/Bills/House/PDF/H1247v4.pdf)

## Votes

- M11 Concur — **115–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Fisher — primary (person)
- McGrady — primary (person)
- Moffitt — primary (person)
- Ramsey — cosponsor (person)
- Whitmire — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2014-07-02** Ch. SL 2014-52 `became-law`
- **2014-07-02** Ratified
- **2014-07-01** Ordered Enrolled
- **2014-07-01** Concurred In S/Com Sub `amendment-passage`
- **2014-06-30** Placed On Cal For 07/01/2014
- **2014-06-30** Cal Pursuant 36(b)
- **2014-06-26** Regular Message Received For Concurrence in S Com Sub
- **2014-06-26** Regular Message Sent To House
- **2014-06-25** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2014-06-25** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2014-06-24** Com Substitute Adopted
- **2014-06-24** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2014-06-19** Ref To Com On State and Local Government `referral-committee`
- **2014-06-19** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2014-06-19** Special Message Received From House
- **2014-06-19** Special Message Sent To Senate
- **2014-06-18** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2014-06-18** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2014-06-18** Added to Calendar
- **2014-06-18** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2014-06-18** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2014-05-29** Ref To Com On Government `referral-committee`
- **2014-05-29** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2014-05-28** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b8bf6cbc-3451-4cef-b175-2610dfd0db05`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).