---
type: "Bill"
title: "Colonial Spanish Mustang as State Horse."
description: "Colonial Spanish Mustang as State Horse."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2009"
identifier: "HB 1251"
citation: "North Carolina HB 1251 (2009)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ANIMALS", "CALENDAR", "CANCER", "DISEASES", "HEALTH EDUCATION", "PRESENTED", "PUBLIC", "PUBLIC HEALTH", "RATIFIED", "STATE SYMBOLS", "TESTING", "TITLE CHANGE", "CHAPTERED", "REP. T. HARRELL"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Burris-Floyd", "England", "Harrell"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 24
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2009-04-08"
last_action: "2010-06-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d4d7e0f5-aa0c-4aef-81b0-6419d9ef8f6f"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2009&BillID=H1251&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "e65d90d69f27933ef84a4b666c7be31d31c467c2375083f118bd6f744cb30e7e"
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 1251 (2009) — Colonial Spanish Mustang as State Horse.

## 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/H1251v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/House/PDF/H1251v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/House/PDF/H1251v2.pdf)
4. **Edition 3** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/House/PDF/H1251v3.pdf)
5. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/House/PDF/H1251v4.pdf)
6. **SL2010-6** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/House/PDF/H1251v5.pdf)

## Votes

- M11 Concur — **116–0** (pass) · lower
- Second Reading — **38–5** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Burris-Floyd — primary (person)
- England — primary (person)
- Harrell — primary (person)
- Adams — cosponsor (person)
- Avila — cosponsor (person)
- Barnhart — cosponsor (person)
- Blackwell — cosponsor (person)
- Bordsen — cosponsor (person)
- Bryant — cosponsor (person)
- Cleveland — cosponsor (person)
- Cotham — cosponsor (person)
- Current — cosponsor (person)
- Dickson — cosponsor (person)
- Dockham — cosponsor (person)
- Dollar — cosponsor (person)
- Earle — cosponsor (person)
- Faison — cosponsor (person)
- Fisher — cosponsor (person)
- Folwell — cosponsor (person)
- Frye — cosponsor (person)
- Gibson — cosponsor (person)
- Glazier — cosponsor (person)
- Goforth — cosponsor (person)
- Grady — cosponsor (person)
- Guice — cosponsor (person)
- Harrison — cosponsor (person)
- Holliman — cosponsor (person)
- Howard — cosponsor (person)
- Hurley — cosponsor (person)
- Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- Jeffus — cosponsor (person)
- Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Justice — cosponsor (person)
- Justus — cosponsor (person)
- K. Alexander — cosponsor (person)
- Lucas — cosponsor (person)
- Luebke — cosponsor (person)
- M. Alexander — cosponsor (person)
- Mackey — cosponsor (person)
- Martin — cosponsor (person)
- McCormick — cosponsor (person)
- McElraft — cosponsor (person)
- Neumann — cosponsor (person)
- Pierce — cosponsor (person)
- R. Warren — cosponsor (person)
- Rapp — cosponsor (person)
- Sager — cosponsor (person)
- Setzer — cosponsor (person)
- Stevens — cosponsor (person)
- Stewart — cosponsor (person)
- Stiller — cosponsor (person)
- Tarleton — cosponsor (person)
- Wainwright — cosponsor (person)
- Whilden — cosponsor (person)
- Wiley — cosponsor (person)
- Wray — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2010-06-07** Ch. SL 2010-6 `became-law`
- **2010-06-07** Signed By Gov. 6/7/2010 `executive-signature`
- **2010-06-07** Pres. To Gov. 6/4/2010 `executive-receipt`
- **2010-06-03** Ratified
- **2010-06-02** Concurred In S/Com Sub `amendment-passage`
- **2010-06-01** Placed On Cal For 6/2/2010
- **2010-06-01** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2010-06-01** Reptd Fav To Concur `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2010-05-31** Ref To Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2010-05-31** Rec To Concur S Com Sub
- **2010-05-27** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2010-05-26** Com Substitute Adopted
- **2010-05-26** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2009-05-19** Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2009-05-14** Rec From House
- **2009-05-14** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2009-05-13** Placed On Cal For 5/14/2009
- **2009-05-13** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2009-05-13** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2009-05-05** Re-ref Com On State Government/State Personnel `referral-committee`
- **2009-05-05** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2009-04-09** Ref to the Com on Health, if favorable, State Government/State Personnel `referral-committee`
- **2009-04-09** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2009-04-08** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d4d7e0f5-aa0c-4aef-81b0-6419d9ef8f6f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).