---
type: "Bill"
title: "Dare County Courthouse Contracts."
description: "Dare County Courthouse Contracts."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2003"
identifier: "HB 686"
citation: "North Carolina HB 686 (2003)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["BIDS & BIDDING", "BUILDINGS", "CONSTRUCTION", "CONTRACTS", "COUNTIES", "LOCAL", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "RATIFIED", "REP. CULPEPPER", "DARE COUNTY", "CHAPTERED"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 4
action_count: 12
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2003-03-25"
last_action: "2003-05-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8bf13cdb-eb1f-4499-8dae-9c4008562a55"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2003&BillID=H686&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "db13780c735c86330fd39673169f85131ca5215b77b4b7956b08fbaefb8f0d35"
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 686 (2003) — Dare County Courthouse Contracts.

## 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/H686v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/House/PDF/H686v1.pdf)
3. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/House/PDF/H686v2.pdf)
4. **SL 2003-47** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/House/PDF/H686v3.pdf)

## Votes

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

## Sponsors

- Culpepper — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2003-05-20** Ch. SL 2003-47 `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`
- **2003-04-28** Ref To Com On State Government, Local Government, and Veterans' Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2003-04-28** Rec From House
- **2003-04-24** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2003-04-23** Placed On Cal For 4/24/2003
- **2003-04-23** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2003-04-23** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2003-03-26** Ref To Com On Local Government II `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/8bf13cdb-eb1f-4499-8dae-9c4008562a55`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).