---
type: "Bill"
title: "School Employee Health Certificate."
description: "School Employee Health Certificate."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2001"
identifier: "HB 608"
citation: "North Carolina HB 608 (2001)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["DHHS", "EDUCATION", "EDUCATION BOARDS", "ELEMENTARY EDUCATION", "EMPLOYMENT", "KINDERGARTEN", "PERSONNEL", "PRESENTED", "PUBLIC", "PUBLIC HEALTH", "PUBLIC INSTRUCTION DEPT.", "PUBLIC INSTRUCTION", "SUPT. OF", "RATIFIED", "SECONDARY EDUCATION", "REP. WALEND", "CHAPTERED"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 5
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2001-03-13"
last_action: "2001-05-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/91aa9100-6da8-4f44-800a-1c938ff510e9"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2001&BillID=H608&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "4597c263f2342d8c0a74cbb79245d1e50eecb3a22e00c7cc705b7c29bbeb7eb8"
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 608 (2001) — School Employee Health Certificate.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2001/Bills/House/PDF/H608v1.pdf)
2. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2001/Bills/House/PDF/H608v2.pdf)
3. **Edition 3** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2001/Bills/House/PDF/H608v3.pdf)
4. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2001/Bills/House/PDF/H608v4.pdf)
5. **SL 2001-118** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2001/Bills/House/PDF/H608v5.pdf)

## Votes

- M11 TO CONCUR\IN SCS — **112–0** (pass) · lower
- Second Reading — **48–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Walend — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2001-05-25** Ch. SL 2001-118 `became-law`
- **2001-05-25** Signed By Gov. 5/25/2001 `executive-signature`
- **2001-05-21** Pres. To Gov. 5/18/2001 `executive-receipt`
- **2001-05-17** Ratified
- **2001-05-16** Concurred In S/Com Sub `amendment-passage`
- **2001-05-15** Placed On Cal For 5/16/2001
- **2001-05-15** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2001-05-15** Rec To Concur S Com Sub
- **2001-05-10** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2001-05-09** Com Substitute Adopted
- **2001-05-09** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2001-04-19** Ref To Com On Education/Higher Education `referral-committee`
- **2001-04-19** Rec From House
- **2001-04-18** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2001-04-17** Placed On Cal For 4/18/2001
- **2001-04-17** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2001-04-17** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2001-03-14** Ref To Com On Education `referral-committee`
- **2001-03-13** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/91aa9100-6da8-4f44-800a-1c938ff510e9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).