---
type: "Bill"
title: "Increase Penalties for Audiovisual Piracy."
description: "Increase Penalties for Audiovisual Piracy."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2007"
identifier: "HB 1094"
citation: "North Carolina HB 1094 (2007)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["COMMERCE", "COURTS", "CRIMES", "CRIMINAL PROCEDURE", "ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY", "INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY", "PRESENTED", "PUBLIC", "RATIFIED", "SENTENCING", "CHAPTERED", "ELECTRONIC & OTHER MEDIA", "REP. STEEN"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Goforth", "McComas", "Steen"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 25
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2007-03-27"
last_action: "2007-08-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0ce7f68d-8fa7-407c-b692-8d08c6f0bfc6"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2007&BillID=H1094&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "cca8a0631b76407183fb491136c97d2716a576b7f6ca3664b7cbae202c72872a"
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 1094 (2007) — Increase Penalties for Audiovisual Piracy.

## 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/2007/Bills/House/PDF/H1094v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/House/PDF/H1094v1.pdf)
3. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/House/PDF/H1094v2.pdf)
4. **SL2007-463** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/House/PDF/H1094v3.pdf)

## Votes

- Amendment 1 — **47–1** (pass) · upper
- M11 Concur\Sen. Amd. 1 — **112–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Goforth — primary (person)
- McComas — primary (person)
- Steen — primary (person)
- Allen — cosponsor (person)
- Barnhart — cosponsor (person)
- Carney — cosponsor (person)
- Coates — cosponsor (person)
- Current — cosponsor (person)
- Daughtridge — cosponsor (person)
- Faison — cosponsor (person)
- Fisher — cosponsor (person)
- Gibson — cosponsor (person)
- Glazier — cosponsor (person)
- Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Justice — cosponsor (person)
- McGee — cosponsor (person)
- Moore — cosponsor (person)
- Neumann — cosponsor (person)
- Ray — cosponsor (person)
- Ross — cosponsor (person)
- Samuelson — cosponsor (person)
- Stam — cosponsor (person)
- Stiller — cosponsor (person)
- Thomas — cosponsor (person)
- Tillis — cosponsor (person)
- Wray — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2007-08-28** Ch. SL 2007-463 `became-law`
- **2007-08-28** Signed By Gov. 8/28/2007 `executive-signature`
- **2007-08-02** Pres. To Gov. 8/2/2007 `executive-receipt`
- **2007-08-02** Ratified
- **2007-08-02** Concurred In S Amend `amendment-passage`
- **2007-08-01** Placed On Cal For 8/2/2007
- **2007-08-01** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2007-08-01** Rec To Concur In S Amend
- **2007-08-01** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2007-08-01** Amend Adopted 1 `amendment-passage`
- **2007-07-31** Placed On Cal For 8/1/2007
- **2007-07-31** Withdrawn From Cal
- **2007-07-28** Placed On Cal For 7/31/2007
- **2007-07-28** Withdrawn From Cal
- **2007-07-27** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2007-07-26** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2007-04-24** Ref To Com On Judiciary I (Civil) `referral-committee`
- **2007-04-24** Rec From House
- **2007-04-23** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2007-04-19** Placed On Cal For 4/23/2007
- **2007-04-19** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2007-04-19** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2007-03-28** Ref To Com On Judiciary I `referral-committee`
- **2007-03-28** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2007-03-27** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0ce7f68d-8fa7-407c-b692-8d08c6f0bfc6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).