---
type: "Bill"
title: "Constitutional Amendment Property Tax Levy Limit."
description: "Constitutional Amendment Property Tax Levy Limit."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1089"
citation: "North Carolina HB 1089 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CONSTITUTION", "NC; ELECTIONS; PROPERTY; PUBLIC; RATIFIED; REAL ESTATE; TAXATION; TAXES", "PROPERTY; CHAPTERED"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Echevarria", "Howard", "Setzer"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 26
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2026-04-28"
last_action: "2026-05-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2dd06a1b-f9c4-4ac4-b644-365fdcce18c9"
source_url: "https://www.ncleg.gov/BillLookUp/2025/H1089"
source_hash: "ea9084b46ce31292725814410f5619a3e37669334c3c22a9f76d0d19bb5d31f0"
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 1089 (2025) — Constitutional Amendment Property Tax Levy Limit.

## 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/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H1089v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H1089v1.pdf)
3. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H1089v2.pdf)
4. **SL 2026-5** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H1089v3.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **31–15** (pass) · upper
- Second Reading — **31–15** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Echevarria — primary (person)
- Howard — primary (person)
- Setzer — primary (person)
- Adams — cosponsor (person)
- Almond — cosponsor (person)
- Balkcom — cosponsor (person)
- Biggs — cosponsor (person)
- Blust — cosponsor (person)
- Branson — cosponsor (person)
- Campbell — cosponsor (person)
- Carver — cosponsor (person)
- Cotham — cosponsor (person)
- D. Hall — cosponsor (person)
- Davis — cosponsor (person)
- Dixon — cosponsor (person)
- Eddins — cosponsor (person)
- Gable — cosponsor (person)
- Goodwin — cosponsor (person)
- Humphrey — cosponsor (person)
- Huneycutt — cosponsor (person)
- John Lowery — cosponsor (person)
- Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Kidwell — cosponsor (person)
- Loftis — cosponsor (person)
- McNeely — cosponsor (person)
- Moss — cosponsor (person)
- N. Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- Paré — cosponsor (person)
- Potts — cosponsor (person)
- Rhyne — cosponsor (person)
- Riddell — cosponsor (person)
- Scott — cosponsor (person)
- Ward — cosponsor (person)
- Warren — cosponsor (person)
- Watford — cosponsor (person)
- Willis — cosponsor (person)
- Winslow — cosponsor (person)
- Zenger — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2026-05-21** Ch. SL 2026-5 `became-law`
- **2026-05-21** Ratified
- **2026-05-20** Ordered Enrolled
- **2026-05-20** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2026-05-20** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2026-05-20** Amend Tabled A3
- **2026-05-20** Amend Tabled A2
- **2026-05-20** Amend Tabled A1
- **2026-05-20** Placed on Today's Calendar
- **2026-05-20** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-05-20** Re-ref Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2026-05-20** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-05-20** Ref to Finance. If fav, re-ref to Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2026-05-20** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2026-05-20** Special Message Received From House
- **2026-05-20** Special Message Sent To Senate
- **2026-05-20** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2026-05-20** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2026-05-19** Placed On Cal For 05/20/2026
- **2026-05-19** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2026-05-19** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-05-12** Re-ref Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2026-05-12** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-04-30** Ref to the Com on Finance, if favorable, Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2026-04-30** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2026-04-28** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2dd06a1b-f9c4-4ac4-b644-365fdcce18c9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).