---
type: "Bill"
title: "Pitt County Animal Control Records."
description: "Pitt County Animal Control Records."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 239"
citation: "North Carolina HB 239 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ANIMAL CONTROL", "ANIMALS", "COUNTIES", "LOCAL", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "PUBLIC HEALTH", "PUBLIC RECORDS", "RATIFIED", "SESSION LAWS", "RECORDS", "BURKE COUNTY", "GUILFORD COUNTY", "PITT COUNTY", "CHAPTERED"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["K. Smith"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 38
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-02-28"
last_action: "2019-07-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5ec97818-efa4-4358-a9cc-ca1214bbe2b7"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2019&BillID=H239&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "34b299c7f6cf98e35c278cf7cf57793a2ca2d53d393ac2eccbf67c7b78d20c82"
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 239 (2019) — Pitt County Animal Control Records.

## 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/2019/Bills/House/PDF/H239v0.pdf)
2. **A1: ATT-41-V-1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://webservices.ncleg.gov/ViewBillDocument/2019/5455/0/H239-ATT-41-V-1)
3. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2019/Bills/House/PDF/H239v1.pdf)
4. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2019/Bills/House/PDF/H239v2.pdf)
5. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2019/Bills/House/PDF/H239v3.pdf)
6. **SL 2019-106** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2019/Bills/House/PDF/H239v4.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **48–0** (pass) · upper
- M11 Concur Sen. Amd. 1 — **119–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- K. Smith — primary (person)
- Humphrey — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-07-11** Ch. SL 2019-106 `became-law`
- **2019-07-11** Ratified
- **2019-07-10** Ordered Enrolled
- **2019-07-10** Concurred In S Amend SA1 `amendment-passage`
- **2019-07-09** Placed On Cal For 07/10/2019
- **2019-07-09** Cal Pursuant 36(b)
- **2019-07-09** Special Message Received For Concurrence in S Amend
- **2019-07-09** Special Message Sent To House
- **2019-07-09** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-07-09** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2019-07-09** Amend Adopted A1 `amendment-passage`
- **2019-07-08** Placed On Cal For 07/09/2019
- **2019-07-08** Withdrawn From Cal
- **2019-07-02** Placed On Cal For 07/08/2019
- **2019-07-02** Withdrawn From Cal
- **2019-07-01** Placed On Cal For 07/02/2019
- **2019-07-01** Withdrawn From Cal
- **2019-06-27** Placed On Cal For 07/01/2019
- **2019-06-27** Withdrawn From Cal
- **2019-06-26** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-06-25** Re-ref Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2019-06-25** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-05-29** Re-ref to State and Local Government. If fav, re-ref to Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-29** Withdrawn From Com
- **2019-04-16** Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-16** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2019-04-16** Regular Message Received From House
- **2019-04-16** Regular Message Sent To Senate
- **2019-04-15** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-04-15** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2019-04-11** Placed On Cal For 04/15/2019
- **2019-04-11** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2019-04-11** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-03** Re-ref Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-03** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-04** Ref to the Com on State and Local Government, if favorable, Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-04** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2019-02-28** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5ec97818-efa4-4358-a9cc-ca1214bbe2b7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).