---
type: "Bill"
title: "Moore County Occupancy Tax Increase."
description: "Moore County Occupancy Tax Increase."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2015"
identifier: "HB 504"
citation: "North Carolina HB 504 (2015)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["COUNTIES", "COUNTY COMMISSIONERS", "HOTELS & MOTELS", "LOCAL", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "RATIFIED", "SESSION LAWS", "SPORTS", "TAXATION", "TAXES", "OCCUPANCY", "MOORE COUNTY", "CHAPTERED"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Boles"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 21
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2015-04-01"
last_action: "2015-09-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0a09765b-9b30-4a15-a9dd-f72bdf6a958b"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2015&BillID=H504&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "5221c4d7cea83c896b099fd53b4b3b9b438b20e2182bcb84f088fe69a4e60d9d"
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 504 (2015) — Moore County Occupancy Tax Increase.

## 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/H504v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2015/Bills/House/PDF/H504v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2015/Bills/House/PDF/H504v2.pdf)
4. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2015/Bills/House/PDF/H504v3.pdf)
5. **SL2015-256** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2015/Bills/House/PDF/H504v4.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **33–7** (pass) · upper
- Second Reading — **38–8** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Boles — primary (person)
- Floyd — cosponsor (person)
- Lucas — cosponsor (person)
- McNeill — cosponsor (person)
- Reives — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2015-09-30** Ch. SL 2015-256 `became-law`
- **2015-09-30** Ratified
- **2015-09-30** Ordered Enrolled
- **2015-09-30** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2015-09-29** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2015-09-29** Placed on Today's Calendar
- **2015-09-29** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2015-08-17** Ref To Com On Finance `referral-committee`
- **2015-08-17** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2015-08-17** Regular Message Received From House
- **2015-08-13** Regular Message Sent To Senate
- **2015-08-13** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2015-08-12** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2015-08-11** Placed On Cal For 08/12/2015
- **2015-08-11** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2015-08-11** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2015-08-05** Re-ref Com On Finance `referral-committee`
- **2015-08-05** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2015-04-02** Ref to the Com on Local Government, if favorable, Finance `referral-committee`
- **2015-04-02** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2015-04-01** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0a09765b-9b30-4a15-a9dd-f72bdf6a958b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).