---
type: "Bill"
title: "Clay County Opossum Exclusion/Wildlife Laws."
description: "Clay County Opossum Exclusion/Wildlife Laws."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2013"
identifier: "HB 1131"
citation: "North Carolina HB 1131 (2013)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ANIMALS", "CALENDAR", "COUNTIES", "ENVIRONMENT", "FISH & WILDLIFE", "HOLIDAYS", "LOCAL", "RATIFIED", "CLAY COUNTY", "CHAPTERED"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 5
action_count: 18
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2014-05-20"
last_action: "2014-06-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/26956877-5af6-4d99-86b2-c7d38e65062d"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2013&BillID=H1131&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "d49f45733a5545b0dc96b02cffcd387d1c817f677f231729869a7b5552dddea8"
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 1131 (2013) — Clay County Opossum Exclusion/Wildlife Laws.

## 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/2013/Bills/House/PDF/H1131v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2013/Bills/House/PDF/H1131v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2013/Bills/House/PDF/H1131v2.pdf)
4. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2013/Bills/House/PDF/H1131v3.pdf)
5. **SL2014-7** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2013/Bills/House/PDF/H1131v4.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **45–4** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Cleveland — cosponsor (person)
- Dobson — cosponsor (person)
- Floyd — cosponsor (person)
- Ford — cosponsor (person)
- Hager — cosponsor (person)
- Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Lucas — cosponsor (person)
- Presnell — cosponsor (person)
- Starnes — cosponsor (person)
- Torbett — cosponsor (person)
- Turner — cosponsor (person)
- Waddell — cosponsor (person)
- West — cosponsor (person)
- Whitmire — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2014-06-12** Ch. SL 2014-7 `became-law`
- **2014-06-12** Ratified
- **2014-06-11** Ordered Enrolled
- **2014-06-11** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2014-06-11** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2014-06-10** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2014-05-28** Ref To Com On State and Local Government `referral-committee`
- **2014-05-28** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2014-05-28** Special Message Received From House
- **2014-05-27** Special Message sent to the Senate
- **2014-05-27** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2014-05-27** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2014-05-23** Placed On Cal For 05/27/2014
- **2014-05-23** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2014-05-23** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2014-05-21** Ref To Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2014-05-21** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2014-05-20** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/26956877-5af6-4d99-86b2-c7d38e65062d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).