---
type: "Bill"
title: "Motor Vehicle Tax: Waive Penalties/Interest."
description: "Motor Vehicle Tax: Waive Penalties/Interest."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2015"
identifier: "SB 273"
citation: "North Carolina SB 273 (2015)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["COUNTIES", "COUNTY COMMISSIONERS", "FINES & PENALTIES", "INTEREST", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "MOTOR VEHICLES", "PRESENTED", "PUBLIC", "RATIFIED", "TAXATION", "TAXES", "MOTOR VEHICLE", "CHAPTERED"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["D. Davis"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 31
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2015-03-12"
last_action: "2015-08-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/94478a4b-858a-4ca1-82f0-e403cda12ee3"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2015&BillID=S273&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "fee97b32b703dcf9bfa0fb27dd77cd729da4cfbbaae8975409ee8bdd323b09b6"
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 273 (2015) — Motor Vehicle Tax: Waive Penalties/Interest.

## 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/Senate/PDF/S273v0.pdf)
2. **A1: ATQ-52-V-1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://webservices.ncleg.net/ViewBillDocument/2015/5942/0/S273-ATQ-52-V-1)
3. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2015/Bills/Senate/PDF/S273v1.pdf)
4. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2015/Bills/Senate/PDF/S273v2.pdf)
5. **SL2015-204** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2015/Bills/Senate/PDF/S273v3.pdf)

## Votes

- Motion 9 To Concur — **43–0** (pass) · upper
- Second Reading — **107–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- D. Davis — primary (person)
- Pate — cosponsor (person)
- Smith-Ingram — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2015-08-11** Ch. SL 2015-204 `became-law`
- **2015-08-11** Signed by Gov. 8/11/2015 `executive-signature`
- **2015-08-07** Pres. To Gov. 08/07/2015 `executive-receipt`
- **2015-08-06** Ratified
- **2015-08-05** Ordered Enrolled
- **2015-08-05** Concurred In H Amend S273v1 `amendment-passage`
- **2015-08-04** Placed On Cal For 08/05/2015
- **2015-08-04** Regular Message Received For Concurrence in H Amend
- **2015-08-04** Regular Message Sent To Senate
- **2015-08-03** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2015-08-03** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2015-08-03** Amend Adopted A1 `amendment-passage`
- **2015-07-30** Placed On Cal For 08/03/2015
- **2015-07-30** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2015-07-30** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2015-07-16** Re-ref Com On Finance `referral-committee`
- **2015-07-16** Withdrawn From Com
- **2015-04-30** Ref To Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2015-04-30** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2015-04-30** Regular Message Received From Senate
- **2015-04-30** Regular Message Sent To House
- **2015-04-29** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2015-04-29** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2015-04-28** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2015-04-15** Re-ref Com On Finance `referral-committee`
- **2015-04-15** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2015-03-23** Re-ref to Transportation. If fav, re-ref to Finance `referral-committee`
- **2015-03-23** Withdrawn From Com
- **2015-03-16** Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2015-03-16** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2015-03-12** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/94478a4b-858a-4ca1-82f0-e403cda12ee3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).