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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Honor Retiring Firefighters."
+description: "Honor Retiring Firefighters."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
+legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
+session: "2003"
+identifier: "HB 55"
+citation: "North Carolina HB 55 (2003)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["EMERGENCY SERVICES", "FIREFIGHTING", "FISCAL NOTES", "PERSONNEL", "PRESENTED", "PUBLIC", "RATIFIED", "RETIREMENT", "TITLE CHANGE", "CHAPTERED", "REP. RAY"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: []
+version_count: 5
+action_count: 17
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2003-02-20"
+last_action: "2003-06-09"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6a35959d-d1c6-493e-9054-8daf123149ce"
+source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2003&BillID=H55&votesToView=all"
+source_hash: "f368c0a53d1ddb0435836c3f8e14fd0bea3ddbeb6cde8beacf08c321352731e9"
+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 55 (2003) — Honor Retiring Firefighters.
+
+## 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/2003/Bills/House/PDF/H55v0.pdf)
+2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/House/PDF/H55v1.pdf)
+3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/House/PDF/H55v2.pdf)
+4. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/House/PDF/H55v3.pdf)
+5. **SL 2003-145** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/House/PDF/H55v4.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Second Reading — **49–0** (pass) · upper
+- Third Reading — **49–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Culp — cosponsor (person)
+- Daughtry — cosponsor (person)
+- Dockham — cosponsor (person)
+- G. Wilson — cosponsor (person)
+- Gillespie — cosponsor (person)
+- Gorman — cosponsor (person)
+- Hilton — cosponsor (person)
+- Howard — cosponsor (person)
+- K. Williams — cosponsor (person)
+- Kiser — cosponsor (person)
+- Lewis — cosponsor (person)
+- McCombs — cosponsor (person)
+- Mitchell — cosponsor (person)
+- Ray — cosponsor (person)
+- Rhodes — cosponsor (person)
+- Setzer — cosponsor (person)
+- Walend — cosponsor (person)
+- Walker — cosponsor (person)
+- Warner — cosponsor (person)
+- West — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2003-06-09** Ch. SL 2003-145 `became-law`
+- **2003-06-09** Signed By Gov. 6/4/2003 `executive-signature`
+- **2003-06-02** Pres. To Gov. 5/30/2003 `executive-receipt`
+- **2003-05-29** Ratified
+- **2003-05-28** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
+- **2003-05-27** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
+- **2003-05-21** Placed On Cal For 5/27/2003
+- **2003-05-21** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2003-03-26** Ref To Com On State Government, Local Government, and Veterans' Affairs `referral-committee`
+- **2003-03-26** Rec From House
+- **2003-03-25** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
+- **2003-03-25** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
+- **2003-03-24** Placed On Cal For 3/25/2003
+- **2003-03-20** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
+- **2003-03-20** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2003-02-24** Ref To Com On Ways and Means `referral-committee`
+- **2003-02-20** Filed `introduction`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6a35959d-d1c6-493e-9054-8daf123149ce`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).
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