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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Consumer Guidelines for Hearing Aid Purchases."
+description: "Consumer Guidelines for Hearing Aid Purchases."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
+legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
+session: "2009"
+identifier: "HB 1705"
+citation: "North Carolina HB 1705 (2009)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["BOARDS", "COMMERCE", "CONSUMER PROTECTION", "HEALTH SERVICES", "LICENSING & CERTIFICATION", "OCCUPATIONS", "PRESENTED", "PUBLIC", "RATIFIED", "REPORTS", "TASK FORCES", "REP. WEISS", "CHAPTERED", "REP. ENGLAND", "REP. FARMER-BUTTERFIELD", "REP. PIERCE", "HEARING AID DEALERS BOARD"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["England", "Farmer-Butterfield", "Pierce"]
+version_count: 6
+action_count: 24
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2010-05-13"
+last_action: "2010-07-20"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0ae21d6f-3887-4b86-860c-9a477beeb871"
+source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2009&BillID=H1705&votesToView=all"
+source_hash: "0803e441446939c81499f26c8c44e2f8e3a99bed2fb40702e013886162171d98"
+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 1705 (2009) — Consumer Guidelines for Hearing Aid Purchases.
+
+## 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/H1705v0.pdf)
+2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/House/PDF/H1705v1.pdf)
+3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/House/PDF/H1705v2.pdf)
+4. **Edition 3** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/House/PDF/H1705v3.pdf)
+5. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/House/PDF/H1705v4.pdf)
+6. **SL2010-121** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/House/PDF/H1705v5.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- M11 Concur — **109–0** (pass) · lower
+- Second Reading — **48–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- England — primary (person)
+- Farmer-Butterfield — primary (person)
+- Pierce — primary (person)
+- Brown — cosponsor (person)
+- Dockham — cosponsor (person)
+- Gill — cosponsor (person)
+- Harrison — cosponsor (person)
+- Hughes — cosponsor (person)
+- M. Alexander — cosponsor (person)
+- Parfitt — cosponsor (person)
+- R. Warren — cosponsor (person)
+- Weiss — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2010-07-20** Ch. SL 2010-121 `became-law`
+- **2010-07-20** Signed By Gov. 7/20/2010 `executive-signature`
+- **2010-07-09** Pres. To Gov. 7/9/2010 `executive-receipt`
+- **2010-07-09** Ratified
+- **2010-07-08** Concurred In S/Com Sub `amendment-passage`
+- **2010-07-08** Placed On Cal For 7/8/2010
+- **2010-07-08** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
+- **2010-07-08** Reptd Fav To Concur `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2010-07-01** Ref To Com On Health `referral-committee`
+- **2010-07-01** Rec To Concur S Com Sub
+- **2010-07-01** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
+- **2010-06-30** Com Substitute Adopted
+- **2010-06-30** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2010-06-14** Ref To Com On Health Care `referral-committee`
+- **2010-06-11** Rec From House
+- **2010-06-10** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
+- **2010-06-09** Placed On Cal For 6/10/2010
+- **2010-06-09** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
+- **2010-06-09** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2010-05-24** Re-ref Com On Aging `referral-committee`
+- **2010-05-24** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2010-05-17** Ref to the Com on Health, if favorable, Aging `referral-committee`
+- **2010-05-17** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
+- **2010-05-13** Filed `introduction`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0ae21d6f-3887-4b86-860c-9a477beeb871`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).
+