---
type: "Bill"
title: "Currituck/New Hanover Beach Towns/Jacksonville Occupancy Tax."
description: "Currituck/New Hanover Beach Towns/Jacksonville Occupancy Tax."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 240"
citation: "North Carolina HB 240 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CHARTERS; COASTAL RESOURCES; COUNTIES; COUNTY COMMISSIONERS; EMERGENCY SERVICES; HOTELS & MOTELS; LOCAL; LOCAL GOVERNMENT; MUNICIPALITIES; RATIFIED; RESCUE SQUADS; SESSION LAWS; TAXATION; TAXES", "OCCUPANCY; TITLE CHANGE; TRAVEL & TOURISM; NEW HANOVER COUNTY; ONSLOW COUNTY; MECKLENBURG COUNTY; DAVIDSON; SUNSETS; IREDELL COUNTY; KURE BEACH; CAROLINA BEACH; JACKSONVILLE; CURRITUCK COUNTY; WRIGHTSVILLE BEACH; CHAPTERED"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 5
action_count: 31
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-02-26"
last_action: "2026-06-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a7484987-958f-499a-9bbc-10d70093f8d4"
source_url: "https://www.ncleg.gov/BillLookUp/2025/H240"
source_hash: "784ca00cc06b224635ab415273af7ec6e2090f357803a554006621102c144f84"
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 240 (2025) — Currituck/New Hanover Beach Towns/Jacksonville Occupancy Tax.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Filed** (filed) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H240v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H240v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H240v2.pdf)
4. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H240v3.pdf)
5. **SL 2026-7** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H240v4.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **112–0** (pass) · lower
- M11 Concur — **111–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Carver — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2026-06-18** Ch. SL 2026-7 `became-law`
- **2026-06-18** Ratified
- **2026-06-17** Ordered Enrolled
- **2026-06-17** Concurred In S Com Sub `amendment-passage`
- **2026-06-16** Placed On Cal For 06/17/2026
- **2026-06-16** Cal Pursuant 36(b)
- **2026-06-16** Special Message Received For Concurrence in S Com Sub
- **2026-06-16** Special Message Sent To House
- **2026-06-16** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2026-06-16** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2026-06-16** Placed on Today's Calendar
- **2026-06-16** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-06-16** Re-ref Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2026-06-16** Com Substitute Adopted
- **2026-06-16** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-06-15** Re-ref to Finance. If fav, re-ref to Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2026-06-15** Withdrawn From Com
- **2025-03-27** Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-27** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-03-27** Regular Message Received From House
- **2025-03-27** Regular Message Sent To Senate
- **2025-03-26** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-25** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-03-24** Placed On Cal For 03/25/2025
- **2025-03-24** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2025-03-24** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-18** Re-ref Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-18** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-03** Ref to the Com on State and Local Government, if favorable, Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-03** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-02-26** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a7484987-958f-499a-9bbc-10d70093f8d4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).