---
type: "Bill"
title: "Garner/Unsafe Residential Buildings."
description: "Garner/Unsafe Residential Buildings."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2003"
identifier: "HB 1666"
citation: "North Carolina HB 1666 (2003)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["BUILDING CODES", "BUILDINGS", "COUNTIES", "LOCAL", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "MUNICIPALITIES", "RATIFIED", "SAFETY", "SESSION LAWS", "REP. ELLIS", "WAKE COUNTY", "GARNER", "CHAPTERED", "REP. ROSS"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ross"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 12
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2004-05-25"
last_action: "2004-06-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b73ce383-b745-436c-b196-9e6f657ed2df"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2003&BillID=H1666&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "03967e084337441de04bd2299013b6b03f6c8acb26c958c89dc5df34600b51b4"
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 1666 (2003) — Garner/Unsafe Residential Buildings.

## 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/H1666v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/House/PDF/H1666v1.pdf)
3. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/House/PDF/H1666v2.pdf)
4. **SL 2004-6** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/House/PDF/H1666v3.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Ross — primary (person)
- Ellis — cosponsor (person)
- Stam — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2004-06-14** Ch. SL 2004-6 `became-law`
- **2004-06-14** Ratified
- **2004-06-10** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2004-06-09** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2004-06-08** Ref To Com On State Government, Local Government, and Veterans' Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2004-06-08** Rec From House
- **2004-06-03** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2004-06-02** Placed On Cal For 6/3/2004
- **2004-06-02** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2004-06-02** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2004-05-26** Ref To Com On Local Government I `referral-committee`
- **2004-05-25** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b73ce383-b745-436c-b196-9e6f657ed2df`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).