---
type: "Bill"
title: "Neighborhood Occupantless Vehicle."
description: "Neighborhood Occupantless Vehicle."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 814"
citation: "North Carolina HB 814 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CHAPTERED", "COMMERCE", "EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES", "MOTOR VEHICLES", "PRESENTED", "PUBLIC", "RATIFIED", "SELF-DRIVING VEHICLES", "SHIPPING"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Reives", "Saine"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 34
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-05-04"
last_action: "2021-11-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/482de867-5bd8-4e75-994a-f4feb83a1ce8"
source_url: "https://www.ncleg.gov/BillLookUp/2021/H814"
source_hash: "87b2d32cc4cc89f152e70e7fc0734d28102a182067eb6fd5636557a9e220a72d"
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 814 (2021) — Neighborhood Occupantless Vehicle.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Filed** (filed) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2021/Bills/House/PDF/H814v0.pdf)
2. **A1: ABG-42-V-3** (committee substitute) — [source](https://webservices.ncleg.gov/ViewBillDocument/2021/53323/0/H814-ABG-42-V-3)
3. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2021/Bills/House/PDF/H814v1.pdf)
4. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2021/Bills/House/PDF/H814v2.pdf)
5. **Edition 3** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2021/Bills/House/PDF/H814v3.pdf)
6. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2021/Bills/House/PDF/H814v4.pdf)
7. **SL 2021-179** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2021/Bills/House/PDF/H814v5.pdf)

## Votes

- M11 Concur — **106–3** (pass) · lower
- Second Reading — **49–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Reives — primary (person)
- Saine — primary (person)
- A. Baker — cosponsor (person)
- Butler — cosponsor (person)
- Farkas — cosponsor (person)
- Goodwin — cosponsor (person)
- Hunter — cosponsor (person)
- Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- McNeely — cosponsor (person)
- Pierce — cosponsor (person)
- R. Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Wray — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-11-10** Ch. SL 2021-179 `became-law`
- **2021-11-10** Signed by Gov. 11/10/2021 `executive-signature`
- **2021-11-05** Pres. To Gov. 11/5/2021 `executive-receipt`
- **2021-11-04** Ratified
- **2021-11-03** Ordered Enrolled
- **2021-11-03** Concurred In S Com Sub `amendment-passage`
- **2021-11-02** Placed On Cal For 11/03/2021
- **2021-11-02** Cal Pursuant 36(b)
- **2021-11-02** Special Message Received For Concurrence in S Com Sub
- **2021-11-02** Special Message Sent To House
- **2021-11-02** Engrossed
- **2021-11-02** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-11-02** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2021-11-02** Amend Adopted A1 `amendment-passage`
- **2021-11-01** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-09-21** Re-ref Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2021-09-21** Com Substitute Adopted
- **2021-09-21** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-09-20** Re-ref to Transportation. If fav, re-ref to Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2021-09-20** Withdrawn From Com
- **2021-05-12** Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2021-05-12** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2021-05-12** Regular Message Received From House
- **2021-05-12** Regular Message Sent To Senate
- **2021-05-11** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-05-11** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2021-05-11** Added to Calendar
- **2021-05-11** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2021-05-11** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-05-11** Re-ref Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2021-05-11** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-05-05** Ref to the Com on Transportation, if favorable, Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2021-05-05** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2021-05-04** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/482de867-5bd8-4e75-994a-f4feb83a1ce8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).