---
type: "Bill"
title: "Madison County Occupancy Tax."
description: "Madison County Occupancy Tax."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2005"
identifier: "HB 544"
citation: "North Carolina HB 544 (2005)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["AUTHORITIES", "COUNTIES", "COUNTY COMMISSIONERS", "FISCAL NOTES", "HOTELS & MOTELS", "LOCAL", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "RATIFIED", "TAXATION", "TAXES", "OCCUPANCY", "TRAVEL & TOURISM", "MADISON COUNTY", "CHAPTERED", "REP. RAPP", "TOURISM DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITIES"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 4
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2005-03-08"
last_action: "2005-06-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7c489b43-2a29-4137-8c6a-87aa74fad8c6"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2005&BillID=H544&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "924e3801d23d5102f3c457fca39d4d2ce62c1bae791dbf060ecd0192cd6e8abd"
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 544 (2005) — Madison County Occupancy Tax.

## 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/2005/Bills/House/PDF/H544v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2005/Bills/House/PDF/H544v1.pdf)
3. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2005/Bills/House/PDF/H544v2.pdf)
4. **SL2005-118** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2005/Bills/House/PDF/H544v3.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **37–9** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **39–10** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Rapp — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2005-06-28** Ch. SL 2005-118 `became-law`
- **2005-06-28** Ratified
- **2005-06-28** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2005-06-27** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2005-06-23** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2005-04-14** Ref To Com On Finance `referral-committee`
- **2005-04-14** Rec From House
- **2005-04-13** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2005-04-12** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2005-04-11** Placed On Cal For 4/12/2005
- **2005-04-05** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2005-04-05** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2005-03-09** Ref To Com On Finance `referral-committee`
- **2005-03-08** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7c489b43-2a29-4137-8c6a-87aa74fad8c6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).