---
type: "Bill"
title: "Soil and Water Employee Judgments."
description: "Soil and Water Employee Judgments."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2001"
identifier: "HB 968"
citation: "North Carolina HB 968 (2001)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["COUNTIES", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "MUNICIPALITIES", "PERSONNEL", "PRESENTED", "PUBLIC", "PUBLIC OFFICIALS", "RATIFIED", "SOIL & WATER CONSERVATION DIST.", "REP. CULP", "CHAPTERED"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Culp"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2001-04-03"
last_action: "2001-07-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8a729fce-eb26-4b6c-902a-1e75bb7b0720"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2001&BillID=H968&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "da0c924f9f7d85903fe748396bd0cbd6f5cc8c10ed5715a4a4edf42c5a6d3c52"
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 968 (2001) — Soil and Water Employee Judgments.

## 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/H968v1.pdf)
2. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2001/Bills/House/PDF/H968v2.pdf)
3. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2001/Bills/House/PDF/H968v3.pdf)
4. **SL 2001-300** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2001/Bills/House/PDF/H968v4.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper
- M11 Concur — **112–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Culp — primary (person)
- Brubaker — cosponsor (person)
- Gibson — cosponsor (person)
- Hackney — cosponsor (person)
- Hill — cosponsor (person)
- Insko — cosponsor (person)
- McCombs — cosponsor (person)
- Mitchell — cosponsor (person)
- Owens — cosponsor (person)
- Setzer — cosponsor (person)
- Teague — cosponsor (person)
- Tolson — cosponsor (person)
- Tucker — cosponsor (person)
- Underhill — cosponsor (person)
- Warwick — cosponsor (person)
- Weatherly — cosponsor (person)
- Wilson, G. — cosponsor (person)
- Yongue — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2001-07-21** Ch. SL 2001-300 `became-law`
- **2001-07-21** Signed By Gov. 7/21/2001 `executive-signature`
- **2001-07-12** Pres. To Gov. 7/12/2001 `executive-receipt`
- **2001-07-11** Ratified
- **2001-07-10** Concurred In S/Com Sub `amendment-passage`
- **2001-07-09** Placed On Cal For 7/10/2001
- **2001-07-03** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2001-07-03** Rec To Concur S Com Sub
- **2001-06-28** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2001-06-27** Com Substitute Adopted
- **2001-06-27** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2001-04-25** Ref To Com On Judiciary I `referral-committee`
- **2001-04-25** Rec From House
- **2001-04-24** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2001-04-19** Placed On Cal For 4/23/2001
- **2001-04-19** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2001-04-19** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2001-04-04** Ref To Com On Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2001-04-03** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8a729fce-eb26-4b6c-902a-1e75bb7b0720`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).