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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "NCNG Tuition Assistance Benefit Amendment."
+description: "NCNG Tuition Assistance Benefit Amendment."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
+legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
+session: "2015"
+identifier: "HB 709"
+citation: "North Carolina HB 709 (2015)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["ARMED FORCES", "AUTHORITIES", "EDUCATION", "EDUCATION ASSISTANCE AUTHORITY", "HIGHER EDUCATION", "PERSONNEL", "PRESENTED", "PUBLIC", "RATIFIED", "TUITION", "CHAPTERED", "NATIONAL GUARD"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: []
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 28
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2015-04-14"
+last_action: "2015-10-30"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7ad8998d-11e8-4642-b0a6-2a26ee7a9f21"
+source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2015&BillID=H709&votesToView=all"
+source_hash: "565d7e880f0e94a31f8f6b64f520ef686e472512430ce72523695efc014d8844"
+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 709 (2015) — NCNG Tuition Assistance Benefit Amendment.
+
+## 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/2015/Bills/House/PDF/H709v0.pdf)
+2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2015/Bills/House/PDF/H709v1.pdf)
+3. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2015/Bills/House/PDF/H709v2.pdf)
+4. **SL2015-298** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2015/Bills/House/PDF/H709v3.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Second Reading — **117–0** (pass) · lower
+- Second Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Adcock — cosponsor (person)
+- Ager — cosponsor (person)
+- B. Richardson — cosponsor (person)
+- B. Turner — cosponsor (person)
+- Baskerville — cosponsor (person)
+- Brockman — cosponsor (person)
+- Carney — cosponsor (person)
+- Cunningham — cosponsor (person)
+- Earle — cosponsor (person)
+- Farmer-Butterfield — cosponsor (person)
+- Floyd — cosponsor (person)
+- G. Graham — cosponsor (person)
+- G. Martin — cosponsor (person)
+- Gill — cosponsor (person)
+- Glazier — cosponsor (person)
+- Hamilton — cosponsor (person)
+- Hanes — cosponsor (person)
+- Holley — cosponsor (person)
+- L. Hall — cosponsor (person)
+- Meyer — cosponsor (person)
+- Pendleton — cosponsor (person)
+- Pierce — cosponsor (person)
+- Queen — cosponsor (person)
+- R. Johnson — cosponsor (person)
+- R. Moore — cosponsor (person)
+- Reives — cosponsor (person)
+- Salmon — cosponsor (person)
+- Steinburg — cosponsor (person)
+- Waddell — cosponsor (person)
+- Whitmire — cosponsor (person)
+- Wray — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2015-10-30** Ch. SL 2015-298 `became-law`
+- **2015-10-30** Signed by Gov. 10/30/2015 `executive-signature`
+- **2015-09-22** Pres. To Gov. 9/22/2015 `executive-receipt`
+- **2015-09-21** Ratified
+- **2015-09-17** Ordered Enrolled
+- **2015-09-17** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
+- **2015-09-17** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
+- **2015-09-16** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2015-09-15** Re-ref Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
+- **2015-09-15** Withdrawn From Com
+- **2015-07-22** Re-ref Com On Appropriations/Base Budget `referral-committee`
+- **2015-07-22** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2015-07-15** Re-ref to Education/Higher Education. If fav, re-ref to Appropriations/Base Budget `referral-committee`
+- **2015-07-15** Withdrawn From Com
+- **2015-04-28** Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
+- **2015-04-28** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
+- **2015-04-28** Regular Message Received From House
+- **2015-04-28** Regular Message Sent To Senate
+- **2015-04-27** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
+- **2015-04-27** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
+- **2015-04-27** Added to Calendar
+- **2015-04-27** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
+- **2015-04-27** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2015-04-21** Re-ref Com On Education - Universities `referral-committee`
+- **2015-04-21** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2015-04-15** Ref to the Com on Homeland Security, Military, and Veterans Affairs, if favorable, Education - Universities `referral-committee`
+- **2015-04-15** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
+- **2015-04-14** Filed `introduction`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7ad8998d-11e8-4642-b0a6-2a26ee7a9f21`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).
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