---
type: "Bill"
title: "Raleigh/Wake Clear-Cutting."
description: "Raleigh/Wake Clear-Cutting."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2003"
identifier: "HB 679"
citation: "North Carolina HB 679 (2003)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["COUNTIES", "LOCAL", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "MUNICIPALITIES", "PLANNING & ZONING", "RATIFIED", "SESSION LAWS", "REP. MINER", "REP. WEISS", "WAKE COUNTY", "RUTHERFORD COUNTY", "RALEIGH", "ROWAN COUNTY", "RUTHERFORDTON", "PLANTS & TREES", "SALISBURY", "CHAPTERED", "REP. ROSS"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ross", "Weiss"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2003-03-25"
last_action: "2003-06-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c98906c5-8f7f-49a2-bf6a-2c39382928d0"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2003&BillID=H679&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "3da523699938e3618b05cb75f253da746a5217076190c3f6dfd0014a199f9dfc"
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 679 (2003) — Raleigh/Wake 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/H679v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/House/PDF/H679v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/House/PDF/H679v2.pdf)
4. **Edition 3** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/House/PDF/H679v3.pdf)
5. **Edition 4** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/House/PDF/H679v4.pdf)
6. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/House/PDF/H679v5.pdf)
7. **SL 2003-128** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/House/PDF/H679v6.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **44–0** (pass) · upper
- M11 Concur — **85–19** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Ross — primary (person)
- Weiss — primary (person)
- Miner — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2003-06-03** Ch. SL 2003-128 `became-law`
- **2003-06-02** Ratified
- **2003-05-29** Concurred In S/Com Sub `amendment-passage`
- **2003-05-28** Placed On Cal For 5/29/2003
- **2003-05-28** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2003-05-28** Rec To Concur S Com Sub
- **2003-05-22** Engrossed
- **2003-05-22** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2003-05-22** Amend Adopted # 1 `amendment-passage`
- **2003-05-21** Com Substitute Adopted
- **2003-05-21** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2003-04-14** Ref To Com On State Government, Local Government, and Veterans' Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2003-04-14** Rec From House
- **2003-04-10** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2003-04-09** Placed On Cal For 4/10/2003
- **2003-04-09** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2003-04-09** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2003-03-26** Ref To Com On Local Government I `referral-committee`
- **2003-03-25** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c98906c5-8f7f-49a2-bf6a-2c39382928d0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).