---
type: "Bill"
title: "Asheville Civil Service Board."
description: "Asheville Civil Service Board."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2003"
identifier: "HB 1551"
citation: "North Carolina HB 1551 (2003)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["BOARDS", "CIVIL SERVICE BOARDS", "COUNTIES", "EMPLOYMENT", "LOCAL", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "MUNICIPALITIES", "RATIFIED", "SESSION LAWS", "TERM LENGTHS & LIMITS", "REP. SHERRILL", "BUNCOMBE COUNTY", "ASHEVILLE", "CHAPTERED", "REP. GOFORTH", "REP. FISHER"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Goforth", "Sherrill"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 12
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2004-05-19"
last_action: "2004-06-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6264fc16-5aeb-4d09-a957-18309467a4c6"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2003&BillID=H1551&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "e5d06afe93775d8ae6eb1bccb6e88dbf8e0c3eb8b322e1f822fe730e4bffaa53"
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 1551 (2003) — Asheville Civil Service Board.

## 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/H1551v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/House/PDF/H1551v1.pdf)
3. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/House/PDF/H1551v2.pdf)
4. **SL 2004-13** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/House/PDF/H1551v3.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Goforth — primary (person)
- Sherrill — primary (person)
- Fisher — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2004-06-21** Ch. SL 2004-13 `became-law`
- **2004-06-21** Ratified
- **2004-06-17** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2004-06-16** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2004-06-02** Ref To Com On State Government, Local Government, and Veterans' Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2004-06-02** Rec From House
- **2004-06-01** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2004-05-31** Placed On Cal For 6/1/2004
- **2004-05-26** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2004-05-26** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2004-05-20** Ref To Com On Local Government I `referral-committee`
- **2004-05-19** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6264fc16-5aeb-4d09-a957-18309467a4c6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).