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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Future Volunteer Firefighters Act."
+description: "Future Volunteer Firefighters Act."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
+legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
+session: "2009"
+identifier: "HB 557"
+citation: "North Carolina HB 557 (2009)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES", "COMMUNITY COLLEGES", "EDUCATION", "EMERGENCY SERVICES", "EMPLOYMENT", "FIREFIGHTERS & FIREFIGHTING", "FISCAL NOTES", "HIGHER EDUCATION", "MINORS", "PERSONNEL", "PUBLIC", "RATIFIED", "VOLUNTEERS", "CHAPTERED", "REP. FOLWELL", "REP. PIERCE", "REP. GUICE", "REP. STEVENS"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Folwell", "Guice", "Pierce"]
+version_count: 5
+action_count: 18
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2009-03-11"
+last_action: "2009-05-04"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/19b747af-3c66-4c0a-8cfd-bc1bc1ae3018"
+source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2009&BillID=H557&votesToView=all"
+source_hash: "bae5b371adb0ab7189873bee5523fab195ace89d0fa3c144312a2fd95968cd06"
+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 557 (2009) — Future Volunteer Firefighters Act.
+
+## 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/H557v0.pdf)
+2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/House/PDF/H557v1.pdf)
+3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/House/PDF/H557v2.pdf)
+4. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/House/PDF/H557v3.pdf)
+5. **SL2009-21** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/House/PDF/H557v4.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Second Reading — **49–0** (pass) · upper
+- Second Reading — **114–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Folwell — primary (person)
+- Guice — primary (person)
+- Pierce — primary (person)
+- Brown — cosponsor (person)
+- Faison — cosponsor (person)
+- Harrison — cosponsor (person)
+- Holloway — cosponsor (person)
+- Lewis — cosponsor (person)
+- Moore — cosponsor (person)
+- Stevens — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2009-05-04** Ch. SL 2009-21 `became-law`
+- **2009-05-04** Signed By Gov. 5/4/2009 `executive-signature`
+- **2009-04-27** Pres. To Gov. 4/24/2009 `executive-receipt`
+- **2009-04-23** Ratified
+- **2009-04-22** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
+- **2009-04-21** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2009-04-08** Ref To Com On State and Local Government `referral-committee`
+- **2009-04-08** Rec From House
+- **2009-04-07** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
+- **2009-04-06** Placed On Cal For 4/7/2009
+- **2009-04-06** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
+- **2009-04-06** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2009-03-26** Re-ref Com On Judiciary II `referral-committee`
+- **2009-03-26** serial referral to Jud. I stricken
+- **2009-03-26** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2009-03-12** Ref to the Com on Ways and Means/Broadband Connectivity, if favorable, Judiciary I `referral-committee`
+- **2009-03-12** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
+- **2009-03-11** Filed `introduction`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/19b747af-3c66-4c0a-8cfd-bc1bc1ae3018`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).
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