---
type: "Bill"
title: "Tax Certification - Add Catawba & Alexander."
description: "Tax Certification - Add Catawba & Alexander."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2009"
identifier: "HB 215"
citation: "North Carolina HB 215 (2009)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["COUNTIES", "DEBTOR & CREDITOR", "DEEDS", "LOCAL", "PROPERTY", "PUBLIC RECORDS", "RATIFIED", "REAL ESTATE", "RECORDATION OF INSTRUMENTS", "TAXATION", "TAXES", "PROPERTY", "REP. SETZER", "RECORDS", "CATAWBA COUNTY", "ALEXANDER COUNTY", "CHAPTERED", "TAX COLLECTION"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["R. Warren", "Setzer"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 17
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2009-02-18"
last_action: "2009-07-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5aca938b-f617-40a8-b41e-889af9d955d0"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2009&BillID=H215&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "3becc07aa0b7329d7d07870d9aef2ab656df9cc1f182e9b55df0c22bf5ad99be"
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 215 (2009) — Tax Certification - Add Catawba & Alexander.

## 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/H215v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/House/PDF/H215v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/House/PDF/H215v2.pdf)
4. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/House/PDF/H215v3.pdf)
5. **SL2009-290** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/House/PDF/H215v4.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **114–0** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **40–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- R. Warren — primary (person)
- Setzer — primary (person)
- E. Floyd — cosponsor (person)
- Hilton — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2009-07-13** Ch. SL 2009-290 `became-law`
- **2009-07-13** Ratified
- **2009-07-09** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2009-07-08** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2009-07-01** Placed On Cal For 7/8/2009
- **2009-07-01** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2009-04-07** Ref To Com On Finance `referral-committee`
- **2009-04-07** Rec From House
- **2009-04-06** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2009-04-02** Placed On Cal For 4/6/2009
- **2009-04-02** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2009-04-02** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2009-03-18** Re-ref Com On Finance `referral-committee`
- **2009-03-18** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2009-02-19** Ref to the Com on Local Government I, if favorable, Finance `referral-committee`
- **2009-02-19** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2009-02-18** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5aca938b-f617-40a8-b41e-889af9d955d0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).