---
type: "Bill"
title: "Amend Various Motor Vehicle Laws."
description: "Amend Various Motor Vehicle Laws."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 455"
citation: "North Carolina HB 455 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["BOARDS", "COMMERCE", "DMV", "ELECTRONIC COMMERCE", "FRANCHISES", "INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY", "INTERNET", "LICENSE PLATES", "LICENSES & PERMITS", "MOTOR VEHICLES", "PRESENTED", "PUBLIC", "RATIFIED", "RETAILING", "SALES & CONVEYANCES", "SESSION LAWS", "TELECOMMUNICATIONS", "TELESERVICES", "TITLE CHANGE", "TITLES", "RECORDS", "CHAPTERED", "MOTOR VEHICLE DEALERS BOARD", "AUTOMOTIVE SERVICE & REPAIR"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ross"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 32
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-03-26"
last_action: "2020-06-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/827f7219-9d6e-4a73-8858-23cd92fec433"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2019&BillID=H455&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "380514b9cc2f456a9c5dfb2992d9d3254ba1446a91941954dc1ab6d6da2085a2"
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 455 (2019) — Amend Various Motor Vehicle Laws.

## 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/H455v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2019/Bills/House/PDF/H455v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2019/Bills/House/PDF/H455v2.pdf)
4. **Edition 3** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2019/Bills/House/PDF/H455v3.pdf)
5. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2019/Bills/House/PDF/H455v4.pdf)
6. **SL 2020-51** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2019/Bills/House/PDF/H455v5.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper
- M11 Concur — **115–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Ross — primary (person)
- B. Jones — cosponsor (person)
- Bumgardner — cosponsor (person)
- Conrad — cosponsor (person)
- Hurley — cosponsor (person)
- McNeill — cosponsor (person)
- Murphy — cosponsor (person)
- Riddell — cosponsor (person)
- Sauls — cosponsor (person)
- Setzer — cosponsor (person)
- Torbett — cosponsor (person)
- Willingham — cosponsor (person)
- Wray — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-06-30** Ch. SL 2020-51 `became-law`
- **2020-06-30** Signed by Gov. 6/30/2020 `executive-signature`
- **2020-06-24** Pres. To Gov. 6/24/2020 `executive-receipt`
- **2020-06-24** Ratified
- **2020-06-23** Ordered Enrolled
- **2020-06-23** Concurred In S Com Sub `amendment-passage`
- **2020-06-22** Placed On Cal For 06/23/2020
- **2020-06-22** Cal Pursuant 36(b)
- **2020-06-22** Special Message Received For Concurrence in S Com Sub
- **2020-06-22** Special Message Sent To House
- **2020-06-22** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2020-06-22** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2020-06-19** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-06-18** Re-ref Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2020-06-18** Com Substitute Adopted
- **2020-06-18** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-06-05** Re-ref to Commerce and Insurance. If fav, re-ref to Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2019-06-05** Withdrawn From Com
- **2019-05-06** Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-06** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2019-05-06** Regular Message Received From House
- **2019-05-03** Regular Message Sent To Senate
- **2019-05-02** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-05-02** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2019-05-01** Placed On Cal For 05/02/2019
- **2019-05-01** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2019-05-01** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-30** Re-ref Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-30** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-27** Ref to the Com on Transportation, if favorable, Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-27** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2019-03-26** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/827f7219-9d6e-4a73-8858-23cd92fec433`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).