---
type: "Bill"
title: "Montgomery Commissioner Elections."
description: "Montgomery Commissioner Elections."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2003"
identifier: "HB 1589"
citation: "North Carolina HB 1589 (2003)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["COUNTIES", "COUNTY COMMISSIONERS", "ELECTIONS", "LOCAL", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "MINORITIES", "PUBLIC OFFICIALS", "RATIFIED", "REP. GIBSON", "MONTGOMERY COUNTY", "CHAPTERED"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 5
action_count: 14
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2004-05-19"
last_action: "2004-07-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/48fe6a75-b9ae-4fb3-aa7c-42448cf868d4"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2003&BillID=H1589&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "49faea0cc99efe904ed046493538f28389b2945b16193516ad028f6eb6aee965"
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 1589 (2003) — Montgomery Commissioner Elections.

## 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/H1589v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/House/PDF/H1589v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/House/PDF/H1589v2.pdf)
4. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/House/PDF/H1589v4.pdf)
5. **SL 2004-59** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/House/PDF/H1589v5.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Gibson — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2004-07-07** Ch. SL 2004-59 `became-law`
- **2004-07-07** Ratified
- **2004-07-06** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2004-07-01** Placed On Cal For 7/6/2004
- **2004-07-01** Withdrawn From Cal
- **2004-06-30** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2004-06-14** Ref To Com On State Government, Local Government, and Veterans' Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2004-06-14** Rec From House
- **2004-06-09** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2004-06-08** Placed On Cal For 6/9/2004
- **2004-06-03** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2004-06-03** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `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/48fe6a75-b9ae-4fb3-aa7c-42448cf868d4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).