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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Allow Absentee Ballots/Fire District Election."
+description: "Allow Absentee Ballots/Fire District Election."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
+legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
+session: "2019"
+identifier: "HB 18"
+citation: "North Carolina HB 18 (2019)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["ELECTIONS", "EMERGENCY SERVICES", "FIREFIGHTERS & FIREFIGHTING", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "PRESENTED", "PUBLIC", "RATIFIED", "CHAPTERED", "FIRE DISTRICTS", "BALLOTS & BALLOT ISSUES"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Howard"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 27
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2019-02-04"
+last_action: "2019-07-19"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f5320f6b-721e-4ad1-9817-b8e3c9f44b68"
+source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2019&BillID=H18&votesToView=all"
+source_hash: "0bd0131fb2e126893deabb0776d7dd10af368e6c8737487f002c715fe601220c"
+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 18 (2019) — Allow Absentee Ballots/Fire District Election.
+
+## 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/2019/Bills/House/PDF/H18v0.pdf)
+2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2019/Bills/House/PDF/H18v1.pdf)
+3. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2019/Bills/House/PDF/H18v2.pdf)
+4. **SL 2019-136** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2019/Bills/House/PDF/H18v3.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Second Reading — **117–0** (pass) · lower
+- Second Reading — **49–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Howard — primary (person)
+- Sasser — cosponsor (person)
+- Setzer — cosponsor (person)
+- Wray — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-07-19** Ch. SL 2019-136 `became-law`
+- **2019-07-19** Signed by Gov. 7/19/2019 `executive-signature`
+- **2019-07-10** Pres. To Gov. 7/10/2019 `executive-receipt`
+- **2019-07-09** Ratified
+- **2019-07-08** Ordered Enrolled
+- **2019-07-08** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
+- **2019-07-08** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
+- **2019-07-02** Placed On Cal For 07/08/2019
+- **2019-07-02** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-07-01** Re-ref Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
+- **2019-07-01** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-06-14** Re-ref to Redistricting and Elections. If fav, re-ref to Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
+- **2019-06-14** Withdrawn From Com
+- **2019-03-21** Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
+- **2019-03-21** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
+- **2019-03-21** Regular Message Received From House
+- **2019-03-21** Regular Message Sent To Senate
+- **2019-03-20** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
+- **2019-03-20** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
+- **2019-03-18** Placed On Cal For 03/20/2019
+- **2019-03-18** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
+- **2019-03-18** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-03-13** Re-ref Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
+- **2019-03-13** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-02-05** Ref to the Com on Elections and Ethics Law, if favorable, Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
+- **2019-02-05** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
+- **2019-02-04** Filed `introduction`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f5320f6b-721e-4ad1-9817-b8e3c9f44b68`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).
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