---
type: "Bill"
title: "Veterans Administration Police Officers."
description: "Veterans Administration Police Officers."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2003"
identifier: "HB 24"
citation: "North Carolina HB 24 (2003)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ARMED FORCES", "LAW ENFORCEMENT", "PRESENTED", "PUBLIC", "RATIFIED", "VETERANS", "REP. MCCOMBS", "CHAPTERED"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 4
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2003-02-13"
last_action: "2003-05-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/71d9573a-4f6d-45ad-85a6-f10557d700bb"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2003&BillID=H24&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "54de6c6c507d1c64060bac785f19be0f22a3c45efe50ad0ca893f74ef35ce4e5"
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 24 (2003) — Veterans Administration Police Officers.

## 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/H24v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/House/PDF/H24v1.pdf)
3. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/House/PDF/H24v2.pdf)
4. **SL 2003-36** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/House/PDF/H24v3.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **116–0** (pass) · lower
- Second Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Barbee — cosponsor (person)
- Barnhart — cosponsor (person)
- Coates — cosponsor (person)
- Gillespie — cosponsor (person)
- McCombs — cosponsor (person)
- Mitchell — cosponsor (person)
- Preston — cosponsor (person)
- Rayfield — cosponsor (person)
- Rhodes — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2003-05-15** Ch. SL 2003-36 `became-law`
- **2003-05-15** Signed By Gov. 5/14/2003 `executive-signature`
- **2003-05-12** Pres. To Gov. 5/9/2003 `executive-receipt`
- **2003-05-08** Ratified
- **2003-05-07** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2003-05-06** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2003-03-17** Ref To Com On Judiciary II `referral-committee`
- **2003-03-13** Rec From House
- **2003-03-12** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2003-03-11** Placed On Cal For 3/12/2003
- **2003-03-11** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2003-03-11** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2003-02-17** Ref To Com On Judiciary III `referral-committee`
- **2003-02-13** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/71d9573a-4f6d-45ad-85a6-f10557d700bb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).