---
type: "Bill"
title: "Landlord/Tenant-Foreclosure & Evict. Changes."
description: "Landlord/Tenant-Foreclosure & Evict. Changes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2015"
identifier: "HB 174"
citation: "North Carolina HB 174 (2015)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["COMMERCE", "CONSUMER PROTECTION", "DEBTOR & CREDITOR", "FINANCIAL SERVICES", "FORECLOSURES", "HOUSING", "LANDLORD & TENANT", "LOANS", "MORTGAGES", "NOTIFICATION", "PRESENTED", "PROPERTY", "PUBLIC", "RATIFIED", "REAL ESTATE", "CHAPTERED"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bradford"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 24
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2015-03-09"
last_action: "2015-08-05"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ed30c4a1-5d4f-469f-ac31-2ba4d6143e9f"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2015&BillID=H174&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "c0f8955385cb0858d7f4d7a7c5390dd5f0ecf7c2ed41338f42e53532f340954b"
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 174 (2015) — Landlord/Tenant-Foreclosure & Evict. Changes.

## 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/H174v0.pdf)
2. **A1: ATS-3-V-4** (committee substitute) — [source](https://webservices.ncleg.net/ViewBillDocument/2015/2767/0/H174-ATS-3-V-4)
3. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2015/Bills/House/PDF/H174v1.pdf)
4. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2015/Bills/House/PDF/H174v2.pdf)
5. **Edition 3** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2015/Bills/House/PDF/H174v3.pdf)
6. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2015/Bills/House/PDF/H174v4.pdf)
7. **SL2015-178** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2015/Bills/House/PDF/H174v5.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **49–0** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **110–2** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Bradford — primary (person)
- Stam — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2015-08-05** Ch. SL 2015-178 `became-law`
- **2015-08-05** Signed by Gov. 8/5/2015 `executive-signature`
- **2015-07-29** Pres. To Gov. 7/29/2015 `executive-receipt`
- **2015-07-28** Ratified
- **2015-07-27** Ordered Enrolled
- **2015-07-27** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2015-07-27** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2015-07-23** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2015-07-13** Re-ref Com On Judiciary II `referral-committee`
- **2015-07-13** Withdrawn From Com
- **2015-04-02** Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2015-04-02** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2015-04-02** Regular Message Received From House
- **2015-04-02** Regular Message Sent To Senate
- **2015-04-01** Ordered Engrossed
- **2015-04-01** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2015-04-01** Amend Adopted A1 `amendment-passage`
- **2015-04-01** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2015-04-01** Added to Calendar
- **2015-04-01** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2015-04-01** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2015-03-10** Ref To Com On Judiciary IV `referral-committee`
- **2015-03-10** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2015-03-09** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ed30c4a1-5d4f-469f-ac31-2ba4d6143e9f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).