---
type: "Bill"
title: "Return Overpayments of State Funds."
description: "Return Overpayments of State Funds."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2003"
identifier: "HB 1221"
citation: "North Carolina HB 1221 (2003)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["EMPLOYMENT", "PERSONNEL", "PRESENTED", "PUBLIC", "RATIFIED", "SALARIES & BENEFITS", "STATE EMPLOYEES", "REP. DECKER", "CHAPTERED"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 6
action_count: 21
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2003-04-10"
last_action: "2003-06-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/996116fe-1638-4cc5-b89c-221981f5b6b5"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2003&BillID=H1221&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "369d946b0778ebbfba4777d5719ace9dd649d610eb5d9b638eab1450428abd9b"
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 1221 (2003) — Return Overpayments of State Funds.

## 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/2003/Bills/House/PDF/H1221v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/House/PDF/H1221v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/House/PDF/H1221v2.pdf)
4. **Edition 3** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/House/PDF/H1221v3.pdf)
5. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/House/PDF/H1221v4.pdf)
6. **SL 2003-263** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/House/PDF/H1221v5.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **49–0** (pass) · upper
- M11 Concur — **111–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Capps — cosponsor (person)
- Church — cosponsor (person)
- Decker — cosponsor (person)
- England — cosponsor (person)
- G. Allen — cosponsor (person)
- Gibson — cosponsor (person)
- Goforth — cosponsor (person)
- Hall — cosponsor (person)
- Harrell — cosponsor (person)
- Hill — cosponsor (person)
- Holliman — cosponsor (person)
- L. Allen — cosponsor (person)
- Parmon — cosponsor (person)
- Rapp — cosponsor (person)
- Rayfield — cosponsor (person)
- Saunders — cosponsor (person)
- Sutton — cosponsor (person)
- Tolson — cosponsor (person)
- Warner — cosponsor (person)
- Wood — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2003-06-27** Ch. SL 2003-263 `became-law`
- **2003-06-27** Signed By Gov. 6/26/2003 `executive-signature`
- **2003-06-19** Pres. To Gov. 6/19/2003 `executive-receipt`
- **2003-06-18** Ratified
- **2003-06-17** Concurred In S/Com Sub `amendment-passage`
- **2003-06-12** Placed On Cal For 6/16/2003
- **2003-06-12** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2003-06-12** Rec To Concur S Com Sub
- **2003-06-10** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2003-06-09** Com Substitute Adopted
- **2003-06-09** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2003-05-05** Ref To Com On State Government, Local Government, and Veterans' Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2003-05-01** Held by Senate
- **2003-05-01** Rec From House
- **2003-04-30** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2003-04-30** Amend Adopted #1 `amendment-passage`
- **2003-04-29** Placed On Cal For 4/30/2003
- **2003-04-29** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2003-04-29** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2003-04-14** Ref To Com On State Government `referral-committee`
- **2003-04-10** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/996116fe-1638-4cc5-b89c-221981f5b6b5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).