---
type: "Bill"
title: "County Bow Hunting/Mineral Rights."
description: "County Bow Hunting/Mineral Rights."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2009"
identifier: "HB 888"
citation: "North Carolina HB 888 (2009)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ANIMALS", "COUNTIES", "FISH & WILDLIFE", "HUNTING & FISHING", "LANDOWNERS", "LOCAL", "MINING & MINERAL EXTRACTION", "PROPERTY", "RATIFIED", "SESSION LAWS", "TITLE CHANGE", "WEAPONS", "WAYNE COUNTY", "HYDE COUNTY", "CHAPTERED", "REP. SPEAR"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 7
action_count: 20
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2009-03-30"
last_action: "2009-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4cd747d8-c44b-43c2-89ba-8b30cc7cc12c"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2009&BillID=H888&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "40752fd1d5d4c46405559819b5399cef2beeadd79f572a163f4128f434c5a33f"
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 888 (2009) — County Bow Hunting/Mineral Rights.

## 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/H888v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/House/PDF/H888v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/House/PDF/H888v2.pdf)
4. **Edition 3** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/House/PDF/H888v3.pdf)
5. **Edition 4** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/House/PDF/H888v4.pdf)
6. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/House/PDF/H888v5.pdf)
7. **SL2009-77** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/House/PDF/H888v6.pdf)

## Votes

- M11 Concur — **102–13** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Spear — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2009-06-11** Ch. SL 2009-77 `became-law`
- **2009-06-11** Ratified
- **2009-06-10** Concurred In S/Com Sub `amendment-passage`
- **2009-06-09** Placed On Cal For 6/10/2009
- **2009-06-09** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2009-06-09** Rec To Concur S Com Sub
- **2009-06-04** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2009-06-03** Com Substitute Adopted
- **2009-06-03** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2009-04-28** Ref To Com On State and Local Government `referral-committee`
- **2009-04-28** Rec From House
- **2009-04-27** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **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`
- **2009-04-13** Re-ref Com On Wildlife Resources `referral-committee`
- **2009-04-13** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2009-03-31** Ref to the Com on Local Government II, if favorable, Wildlife Resources `referral-committee`
- **2009-03-31** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2009-03-30** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4cd747d8-c44b-43c2-89ba-8b30cc7cc12c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).