---
type: "Bill"
title: "Insurance Required for Mopeds."
description: "Insurance Required for Mopeds."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2015"
identifier: "HB 148"
citation: "North Carolina HB 148 (2015)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["DMV", "INSPECTIONS", "INSURANCE", "INSURANCE", "MOTOR VEHICLE", "LICENSE PLATES", "LICENSES & PERMITS", "MOTOR VEHICLES", "MOTORCYCLES", "PRESENTED", "PUBLIC", "RATIFIED", "SAFETY", "TITLES", "TRANSPORTATION", "RECORDS", "CHAPTERED"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["R. Brown", "Shepard", "Waddell"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 24
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2015-03-03"
last_action: "2015-06-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e2301a44-c7cc-4af2-b555-c1d24de102c9"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2015&BillID=H148&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "e1fb0d5bb14ef7e6031e81d25b087b232248c898d1aa52b8c78a907768d523af"
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 148 (2015) — Insurance Required for Mopeds.

## 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/2015/Bills/House/PDF/H148v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2015/Bills/House/PDF/H148v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2015/Bills/House/PDF/H148v2.pdf)
4. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2015/Bills/House/PDF/H148v3.pdf)
5. **SL2015-125** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2015/Bills/House/PDF/H148v4.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **39–8** (pass) · upper
- Second Reading — **39–9** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- R. Brown — primary (person)
- Shepard — primary (person)
- Waddell — primary (person)
- Adams — cosponsor (person)
- Floyd — cosponsor (person)
- G. Graham — cosponsor (person)
- Holloway — cosponsor (person)
- Hunter — cosponsor (person)
- Hurley — cosponsor (person)
- Jones — cosponsor (person)
- R. Turner — cosponsor (person)
- Wray — cosponsor (person)
- Yarborough — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2015-06-29** Ch. SL 2015-125 `became-law`
- **2015-06-29** Signed by Gov. 6/29/2015 `executive-signature`
- **2015-06-25** Pres. To Gov. 6/25/2015 `executive-receipt`
- **2015-06-24** Ratified
- **2015-06-23** Ordered Enrolled
- **2015-06-23** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2015-06-16** Placed On Cal For 06/23/2015
- **2015-06-16** Withdrawn From Cal
- **2015-06-15** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2015-06-11** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2015-04-30** Ref To Com On Insurance `referral-committee`
- **2015-04-30** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2015-04-30** Regular Message Received From House
- **2015-04-30** Regular Message Sent To Senate
- **2015-04-29** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2015-04-29** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2015-04-29** Added to Calendar
- **2015-04-29** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2015-04-29** Withdrawn From Com
- **2015-03-24** Re-ref Com On Insurance `referral-committee`
- **2015-03-24** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2015-03-05** Ref to the Com on Transportation, if favorable, Insurance `referral-committee`
- **2015-03-05** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2015-03-03** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e2301a44-c7cc-4af2-b555-c1d24de102c9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).