---
type: "Bill"
title: "Lottery Act Changes."
description: "Lottery Act Changes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2009"
identifier: "HB 205"
citation: "North Carolina HB 205 (2009)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["AUDITING & AUDITS", "COMMISSIONS", "CONTRACTS", "ETHICS", "GAMING", "LOTTERY", "PRESENTED", "PRIVACY", "PUBLIC", "RATIFIED", "REP. OWENS", "LOTTERY COMN.", "CHAPTERED"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 8
action_count: 29
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2009-02-17"
last_action: "2009-07-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/20ee6319-394d-4945-a151-3085766fd40b"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2009&BillID=H205&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "8af253e29e2f4a41bcdcebfd48c1ffaa03afe66ec1c460df2739e5b229fa40b9"
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 205 (2009) — Lottery Act Changes.

## 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/H205v0.pdf)
2. **A1: AMD-9-V-2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://webservices.ncleg.net/ViewBillDocument/2009/207/0/H205-AMD-9-V-2)
3. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/House/PDF/H205v1.pdf)
4. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/House/PDF/H205v2.pdf)
5. **Edition 3** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/House/PDF/H205v3.pdf)
6. **Edition 4** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/House/PDF/H205v4.pdf)
7. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/House/PDF/H205v5.pdf)
8. **SL2009-357** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/House/PDF/H205v6.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper
- Second Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Owens — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2009-07-27** Ch. SL 2009-357 `became-law`
- **2009-07-27** Signed By Gov. 7/27/2009 `executive-signature`
- **2009-07-17** Pres. To Gov. 7/17/2009 `executive-receipt`
- **2009-07-16** Ratified
- **2009-07-15** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2009-07-14** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2009-07-08** Placed On Cal For 7/14/2009
- **2009-07-08** Withdrawn From Cal
- **2009-07-01** Placed On Cal For 7/8/2009
- **2009-07-01** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2009-04-30** Ref To Com On Finance `referral-committee`
- **2009-04-30** Rec From House
- **2009-04-28** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2009-04-28** Amend Failed 5 `amendment-failure`
- **2009-04-28** Amend Failed 4 `amendment-failure`
- **2009-04-28** Amend Failed 3 `amendment-failure`
- **2009-04-28** Amend Failed 2 `amendment-failure`
- **2009-04-28** Amend Adopted 1 `amendment-passage`
- **2009-04-27** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2009-04-23** Placed On Cal For 4/27/2009
- **2009-04-22** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2009-04-22** Reptd Fav Com Sub 2 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2009-02-25** Re-ref Com On Finance `referral-committee`
- **2009-02-25** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2009-02-19** Ref to the Com on Judiciary III, if favorable, Finance `referral-committee`
- **2009-02-19** Withdrawn From Com
- **2009-02-18** Ref to the Com on Judiciary I, if favorable, Finance `referral-committee`
- **2009-02-18** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2009-02-17** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/20ee6319-394d-4945-a151-3085766fd40b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).