---
type: "Bill"
title: "Cabarrus Memorial Hospital Advanced Degrees."
description: "Cabarrus Memorial Hospital Advanced Degrees."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2003"
identifier: "HB 1509"
citation: "North Carolina HB 1509 (2003)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["COUNTIES", "EDUCATION", "EMPLOYMENT", "HEALTH SERVICES", "HIGHER EDUCATION", "HOSPITALS", "LOCAL", "NURSING", "OCCUPATIONS", "RATIFIED", "SESSION LAWS", "VOCATIONAL EDUCATION", "REP. BARNHART", "REP. L. JOHNSON", "CABARRUS COUNTY", "CHAPTERED"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Barnhart"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 12
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2004-05-18"
last_action: "2004-07-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c3e8f7f3-577d-4b09-98e9-0ebfa187afa8"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2003&BillID=H1509&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "a41b9fe359b897456c864ac2bae58d241b9dcd5a74002783ccef077261bbd65c"
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 1509 (2003) — Cabarrus Memorial Hospital Advanced Degrees.

## 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/H1509v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/House/PDF/H1509v1.pdf)
3. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/House/PDF/H1509v2.pdf)
4. **SL 2004-67** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/House/PDF/H1509v3.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Barnhart — primary (person)
- L. Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Steen — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2004-07-08** Ch. SL 2004-67 `became-law`
- **2004-07-08** Ratified
- **2004-07-08** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2004-07-07** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2004-06-21** Ref To Com On Education/Higher Education `referral-committee`
- **2004-06-21** Rec From House
- **2004-06-17** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2004-06-16** Placed On Cal For 6/17/2004
- **2004-06-15** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2004-06-15** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2004-05-19** Ref To Com On Health `referral-committee`
- **2004-05-18** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c3e8f7f3-577d-4b09-98e9-0ebfa187afa8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).