---
type: "Bill"
title: "Certain Municipalities Clear-Cutting."
description: "Certain Municipalities Clear-Cutting."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2003"
identifier: "HB 516"
citation: "North Carolina HB 516 (2003)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["COUNTIES", "LOCAL", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "MUNICIPALITIES", "PLANNING & ZONING", "PUBLIC MEETINGS", "RATIFIED", "SESSION LAWS", "TITLE CHANGE", "REP. GOODWIN", "RICHMOND COUNTY", "JOHNSTON COUNTY", "IREDELL COUNTY", "STATESVILLE", "ROCKINGHAM", "PLANTS & TREES", "SMITHFIELD", "CHAPTERED"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 6
action_count: 17
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2003-03-13"
last_action: "2003-06-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b3d5f35e-354b-4b33-ab4a-da94d4d6555a"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2003&BillID=H516&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "94cce82077270e2e14c8bc874c51fa1e20e1af334ddaeba78ec756bd2bfeff32"
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 516 (2003) — Certain Municipalities Clear-Cutting.

## 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/H516v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/House/PDF/H516v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/House/PDF/H516v2.pdf)
4. **Edition 3** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/House/PDF/H516v3.pdf)
5. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/House/PDF/H516v4.pdf)
6. **SL 2003-246** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/House/PDF/H516v5.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Goodwin — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2003-06-26** Ch. SL 2003-246 `became-law`
- **2003-06-25** Ratified
- **2003-06-24** Concurred In S/Com Sub `amendment-passage`
- **2003-06-23** Placed On Cal For 6/24/2003
- **2003-06-17** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2003-06-17** Rec To Concur S Com Sub
- **2003-06-12** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2003-06-11** Com Substitute Adopted
- **2003-06-11** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2003-04-22** Ref To Com On State Government, Local Government, and Veterans' Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2003-04-22** Rec From House
- **2003-04-21** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2003-04-16** Placed On Cal For 4/17/2003
- **2003-04-10** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2003-04-10** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2003-03-17** Ref To Com On Local Government II `referral-committee`
- **2003-03-13** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b3d5f35e-354b-4b33-ab4a-da94d4d6555a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).