---
type: "Bill"
title: "Equalize Treatment of Wastewater Products."
description: "Equalize Treatment of Wastewater Products."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 548"
citation: "North Carolina HB 548 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["COMMERCE", "INFRASTRUCTURE", "PRESENTED", "PUBLIC", "RATIFIED", "RETAILING", "TAXATION", "TAXES", "SALES & USE", "UTILITIES", "WATER & SEWER SYSTEMS", "CHAPTERED"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 6
action_count: 30
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-04-03"
last_action: "2017-07-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/68d1ed85-2fe1-4d5f-b9f0-d5d51883e1be"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2017&BillID=H548&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "4bb03b43b84a9dda34283191f1f54400159751cb2095da394d225945b6b8b6a7"
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 548 (2017) — Equalize Treatment of Wastewater Products.

## 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/2017/Bills/House/PDF/H548v0.pdf)
2. **A1: ASV-11-V-1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://webservices.ncleg.net/ViewBillDocument/2017/4422/0/H548-ASV-11-V-1)
3. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2017/Bills/House/PDF/H548v1.pdf)
4. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2017/Bills/House/PDF/H548v2.pdf)
5. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2017/Bills/House/PDF/H548v3.pdf)
6. **SL 2017-139** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2017/Bills/House/PDF/H548v4.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper
- Second Reading — **111–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Warren — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-07-20** Ch. SL 2017-139 `became-law`
- **2017-07-20** Signed by Gov. 7/20/2017 `executive-signature`
- **2017-06-27** Pres. To Gov. 6/27/2017 `executive-receipt`
- **2017-06-27** Ratified
- **2017-06-26** Ordered Enrolled
- **2017-06-26** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2017-06-26** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2017-06-22** Placed On Cal For 06/26/2017
- **2017-06-22** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-06-21** Re-ref Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2017-06-21** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-06-08** Re-ref to Finance. If fav, re-ref to Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2017-06-08** Withdrawn From Com
- **2017-06-01** Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2017-06-01** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2017-06-01** Regular Message Received From House
- **2017-05-31** Regular Message Sent To Senate
- **2017-05-30** Ordered Engrossed
- **2017-05-30** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2017-05-30** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2017-05-30** Amend Adopted A1 `amendment-passage`
- **2017-05-30** Added to Calendar
- **2017-05-30** Withdrawn From Com
- **2017-05-26** Re-ref Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2017-05-26** Withdrawn From Cal
- **2017-05-23** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2017-05-23** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-04** Ref To Com On Finance `referral-committee`
- **2017-04-04** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2017-04-03** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/68d1ed85-2fe1-4d5f-b9f0-d5d51883e1be`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).