---
type: "Bill"
title: "Wilkes Commissioner Election."
description: "Wilkes Commissioner Election."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2003"
identifier: "HB 480"
citation: "North Carolina HB 480 (2003)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["COUNTIES", "COUNTY COMMISSIONERS", "LOCAL", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "MEMBERSHIP", "RATIFIED", "SESSION LAWS", "REP. WALKER", "WILKES COUNTY", "CHAPTERED"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 4
action_count: 12
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2003-03-12"
last_action: "2003-05-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a91d3a32-4c97-4280-925d-06399c7f8fcb"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2003&BillID=H480&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "24f5b9a54e00726b8171ce7c81161cd49d9bdf4e75734f4e8405d44c8fbc782f"
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 480 (2003) — Wilkes Commissioner Election.

## 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/H480v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/House/PDF/H480v1.pdf)
3. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/House/PDF/H480v2.pdf)
4. **SL 2003-45** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/House/PDF/H480v3.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Walker — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2003-05-20** Ch. SL 2003-45 `became-law`
- **2003-05-19** Ratified
- **2003-05-15** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2003-05-14** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2003-04-02** Ref To Com On State Government, Local Government, and Veterans' Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2003-04-02** Rec From House
- **2003-04-01** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2003-03-31** Placed On Cal For 4/1/2003
- **2003-03-27** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2003-03-27** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2003-03-13** Ref To Com On Local Government I `referral-committee`
- **2003-03-12** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a91d3a32-4c97-4280-925d-06399c7f8fcb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).