---
type: "Bill"
title: "Personal Delivery Device/PDD/Delivery Robots."
description: "Personal Delivery Device/PDD/Delivery Robots."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 739"
citation: "North Carolina SB 739 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["APPROPRIATIONS", "BUDGETING", "COMMERCE", "CORPORATIONS", "FOR-PROFIT", "COUNCIL OF STATE", "DEFINITIONS", "EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES", "FEES", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "MOTOR VEHICLES", "PRESENTED", "PUBLIC", "PUBLIC OFFICIALS", "RATIFIED", "STEM", "SECRETARY OF STATE", "SHIPPING", "TRANSPORTATION", "CHAPTERED", "UNREGULATED VEHICLES", "PUBLIC SAFETY DEPT."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Perry", "Searcy"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 40
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-05-14"
last_action: "2020-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f4a6fd8b-f5ad-4250-b6c9-e42d383b3c3d"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2019&BillID=S739&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "99722eb94da219bcfbffee0c09e17d51ebb41adeb639741d807e8267c1a03467"
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 SB 739 (2019) — Personal Delivery Device/PDD/Delivery Robots.

## 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/2019/Bills/Senate/PDF/S739v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2019/Bills/Senate/PDF/S739v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2019/Bills/Senate/PDF/S739v2.pdf)
4. **Edition 3** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2019/Bills/Senate/PDF/S739v3.pdf)
5. **Edition 4** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2019/Bills/Senate/PDF/S739v4.pdf)
6. **Edition 5** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2019/Bills/Senate/PDF/S739v5.pdf)
7. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2019/Bills/Senate/PDF/S739v6.pdf)
8. **SL 2020-73** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2019/Bills/Senate/PDF/S739v7.pdf)

## Votes

- Motion 9 To Concur — **49–0** (pass) · upper
- Second Reading — **114–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Perry — primary (person)
- Searcy — primary (person)
- Britt — cosponsor (person)
- Foushee — cosponsor (person)
- Gunn — cosponsor (person)
- J. Davis — cosponsor (person)
- Marcus — cosponsor (person)
- Murdock — cosponsor (person)
- Nickel — cosponsor (person)
- Sawyer — cosponsor (person)
- Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Van Duyn — cosponsor (person)
- deViere — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-07-01** Ch. SL 2020-73 `became-law`
- **2020-07-01** Signed by Gov. 7/1/2020 `executive-signature`
- **2020-06-25** Pres. To Gov. 6/25/2020 `executive-receipt`
- **2020-06-25** Ratified
- **2020-06-25** Ordered Enrolled
- **2020-06-25** Concurred In H Com Sub `amendment-passage`
- **2020-06-25** Placed on Today's Calendar
- **2020-06-25** Special Message Received For Concurrence in H Com Sub
- **2020-06-24** Special Message Sent To Senate
- **2020-06-24** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2020-06-24** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2020-06-23** Placed On Cal For 06/24/2020
- **2020-06-23** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2020-06-23** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-06-22** Ref To Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2020-06-22** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2020-06-22** Special Message Received From Senate
- **2020-06-19** Special Message Sent To House
- **2020-06-19** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2020-06-19** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2020-06-18** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-06-17** Re-ref Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2020-06-17** Com Substitute Adopted
- **2020-06-17** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-06-10** Re-ref to Finance. If fav, re-ref to Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2020-06-10** Withdrawn From Com
- **2020-06-10** Re-ref Com On Appropriations/Base Budget `referral-committee`
- **2020-06-10** Com Substitute Adopted
- **2020-06-10** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-06-02** Sequential Referral To Rules and Operations of the Senate Added
- **2020-06-02** Sequential Referral To Appropriations/Base Budget Added
- **2020-06-02** Sequential Referral To Rules and Operations of the Senate Stricken
- **2020-05-27** Re-ref Com On Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2020-05-27** Com Substitute Adopted
- **2020-05-27** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-05-20** Re-ref to Commerce and Insurance. If fav, re-ref to Transportation. If fav, re-ref to Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2020-05-20** Withdrawn From Com
- **2020-05-18** Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2020-05-18** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2020-05-14** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f4a6fd8b-f5ad-4250-b6c9-e42d383b3c3d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).