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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Henderson County Fire Tax Districts."
+description: "Henderson County Fire Tax Districts."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
+legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
+session: "2017"
+identifier: "HB 491"
+citation: "North Carolina HB 491 (2017)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["COUNTIES", "EMERGENCY SERVICES", "FIREFIGHTERS & FIREFIGHTING", "LOCAL", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "RATIFIED", "SESSION LAWS", "TAXATION", "HENDERSON COUNTY", "CHAPTERED", "FIRE DISTRICTS", "TAX DISTRICTS"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["McGrady"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 28
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2017-03-27"
+last_action: "2017-06-21"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7e5fd416-6b60-4628-98d7-601352356928"
+source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2017&BillID=H491&votesToView=all"
+source_hash: "ce5153f1c1a8704181cfeda0bb7fa4cf55b180bae3547587a491c6fbaffe017e"
+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 491 (2017) — Henderson County Fire Tax Districts.
+
+## 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/2017/Bills/House/PDF/H491v0.pdf)
+2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2017/Bills/House/PDF/H491v1.pdf)
+3. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2017/Bills/House/PDF/H491v2.pdf)
+4. **SL 2017-38** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2017/Bills/House/PDF/H491v3.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Third Reading — **49–0** (pass) · upper
+- Second Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- McGrady — primary (person)
+- Henson — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2017-06-21** Ch. SL 2017-38 `became-law`
+- **2017-06-21** Ratified
+- **2017-06-20** Ordered Enrolled
+- **2017-06-20** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
+- **2017-06-19** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
+- **2017-06-15** Placed On Cal For 06/19/2017
+- **2017-06-15** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-06-13** Re-ref Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
+- **2017-06-13** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-06-05** Re-ref to Finance. If fav, re-ref to Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
+- **2017-06-05** Withdrawn From Com
+- **2017-05-18** Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
+- **2017-05-18** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
+- **2017-05-18** Regular Message Received From House
+- **2017-05-18** Regular Message Sent To Senate
+- **2017-05-17** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
+- **2017-05-11** Placed On Cal For 05/17/2017
+- **2017-05-11** Withdrawn From Cal
+- **2017-05-11** Placed On Cal For 05/16/2017
+- **2017-05-11** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
+- **2017-05-10** Placed On Cal For 05/11/2017
+- **2017-05-10** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
+- **2017-05-10** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-04-19** Re-ref Com On Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2017-04-19** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-03-28** Ref to the Com on State and Local Government II, if favorable, Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2017-03-28** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
+- **2017-03-27** Filed `introduction`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7e5fd416-6b60-4628-98d7-601352356928`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).
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