---
type: "Bill"
title: "School Calendar Flex./Inclement Weather."
description: "School Calendar Flex./Inclement Weather."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2003"
identifier: "HB 340"
citation: "North Carolina HB 340 (2003)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["BOARDS", "CALENDAR", "EDUCATION", "EDUCATION BOARDS", "EMPLOYMENT", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "PERSONNEL", "PRESENTED", "PUBLIC", "RATIFIED", "TEACHERS", "WEATHER", "CHAPTERED", "REP. PARMON"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gibson", "Parmon"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2003-03-05"
last_action: "2003-04-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/78450366-ea21-4949-a5b1-7b6ff9930cea"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2003&BillID=H340&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "49b26d65b650339265b6a16970aa32a85675cc3a5b38f6e98d6d904b01e2c47f"
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 340 (2003) — School Calendar Flex./Inclement Weather.

## 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/H340v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/House/PDF/H340v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/House/PDF/H340v2.pdf)
4. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/House/PDF/H340v3.pdf)
5. **SL 2003-8** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/House/PDF/H340v4.pdf)

## Votes

- Amendment 1 — **17–28** (fail) · upper
- Second Reading — **36–9** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Gibson — primary (person)
- Parmon — primary (person)
- A. Williams — cosponsor (person)
- Adams — cosponsor (person)
- B. Allen — cosponsor (person)
- Bordsen — cosponsor (person)
- Clary — cosponsor (person)
- Coates — cosponsor (person)
- Culp — cosponsor (person)
- Cunningham — cosponsor (person)
- Gorman — cosponsor (person)
- Hall — cosponsor (person)
- Hunter — cosponsor (person)
- Jones — cosponsor (person)
- L. Allen — cosponsor (person)
- Lewis — cosponsor (person)
- McAllister — cosponsor (person)
- McGee — cosponsor (person)
- Miller — cosponsor (person)
- Moore — cosponsor (person)
- Wainwright — cosponsor (person)
- West — cosponsor (person)
- Womble — cosponsor (person)
- Wright — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2003-04-08** Ch. SL 2003-8 `became-law`
- **2003-04-07** Signed By Gov. 4/4/2003 `executive-signature`
- **2003-04-07** Pres. To Gov. 4/3/2003 `executive-receipt`
- **2003-04-03** Ratified
- **2003-04-02** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2003-04-02** Amend Failed # 1 `amendment-failure`
- **2003-04-02** Placed On Cal For 4/2/2003
- **2003-04-02** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2003-03-25** Ref To Com On Education/Higher Education `referral-committee`
- **2003-03-25** Rec From House
- **2003-03-20** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2003-03-19** Placed On Cal For 3/20/2003
- **2003-03-13** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2003-03-13** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2003-03-06** Ref To Com On Education `referral-committee`
- **2003-03-05** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/78450366-ea21-4949-a5b1-7b6ff9930cea`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).