---
type: "Bill"
title: "Sex Offender Can't Drive Bus with Children."
description: "Sex Offender Can't Drive Bus with Children."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2009"
identifier: "HB 1117"
citation: "North Carolina HB 1117 (2009)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CRIMES", "DMV", "DRIVERS LICENSES", "FISCAL NOTES", "LICENSES & PERMITS", "MOTOR VEHICLES", "PRESENTED", "PUBLIC", "RATIFIED", "SEX OFFENSES", "TRANSPORTATION DEPT.", "REP. TUCKER", "CHAPTERED"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 4
action_count: 26
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2009-04-06"
last_action: "2009-08-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/97c57bcc-2782-4366-beab-cf6f6cb8e1d1"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2009&BillID=H1117&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "66d151f34440cc95a6f212e3a29039df811ce73b79ab2e84509527f0805ed684"
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 1117 (2009) — Sex Offender Can't Drive Bus with Children.

## 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/2009/Bills/House/PDF/H1117v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/House/PDF/H1117v1.pdf)
3. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/House/PDF/H1117v2.pdf)
4. **SL2009-491** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/House/PDF/H1117v3.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Second Reading — **110–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Faison — cosponsor (person)
- Justice — cosponsor (person)
- Justus — cosponsor (person)
- McLawhorn — cosponsor (person)
- Parmon — cosponsor (person)
- Starnes — cosponsor (person)
- Tucker — cosponsor (person)
- Wray — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2009-08-26** Ch. SL 2009-491 `became-law`
- **2009-08-26** Signed By Gov. 8/26/2009 `executive-signature`
- **2009-08-07** Pres. To Gov. 8/7/2009 `executive-receipt`
- **2009-08-06** Ratified
- **2009-08-06** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2009-08-06** Placed On Cal For 8/6/2009
- **2009-08-06** Withdrawn From Com
- **2009-08-06** Re-ref Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2009-08-06** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2009-08-04** Ref To Com On Judiciary II `referral-committee`
- **2009-08-03** Rec From House
- **2009-08-03** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2009-07-30** Placed On Cal For 8/3/2009
- **2009-07-30** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2009-07-30** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2009-07-29** Assigned To Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2009-05-14** Re-ref Com On Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2009-05-14** Withdrawn From Cal
- **2009-05-13** Placed On Cal For 5/14/2009
- **2009-05-13** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2009-05-13** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2009-05-12** Re-ref Com On Judiciary II `referral-committee`
- **2009-05-12** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2009-04-07** Ref to the Com on Transportation, if favorable, Judiciary II `referral-committee`
- **2009-04-07** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2009-04-06** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/97c57bcc-2782-4366-beab-cf6f6cb8e1d1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).