---
type: "Bill"
title: "Wadesboro/Ansonville Governing Body Terms."
description: "Wadesboro/Ansonville Governing Body Terms."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2003"
identifier: "HB 696"
citation: "North Carolina HB 696 (2003)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CHARTERS", "CITY COUNCILS", "COUNTIES", "LOCAL", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "MAYORS", "MUNICIPALITIES", "RATIFIED", "SESSION LAWS", "TERM LENGTHS & LIMITS", "REP. GIBSON", "ANSON COUNTY", "CHAPTERED", "ANSONVILLE", "WADESBORO"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 4
action_count: 17
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2003-03-26"
last_action: "2003-06-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c7f164a6-1e97-4257-9fe8-eb16cc212194"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2003&BillID=H696&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "b13b6dcdbd8dcbee939ecd8498b992aa109636fa780d24fae48551ac68a27939"
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 696 (2003) — Wadesboro/Ansonville Governing Body Terms.

## 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/H696v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/House/PDF/H696v1.pdf)
3. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/House/PDF/H696v2.pdf)
4. **SL 2003-190** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/House/PDF/H696v3.pdf)

## Votes

- M11 Concur\Sen. Amd. 1 — **116–0** (pass) · lower
- Second Reading — **44–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Gibson — cosponsor (person)
- Goodwin — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2003-06-18** Ch. SL 2003-190 `became-law`
- **2003-06-12** Ratified
- **2003-06-11** Concurred In S Amend `amendment-passage`
- **2003-06-10** Placed On Cal For 6/11/2003
- **2003-06-10** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2003-06-10** Rec To Concur In S Amend
- **2003-06-05** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2003-06-05** Amend Adopted # 1 `amendment-passage`
- **2003-06-04** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2003-04-24** Ref To Com On State Government, Local Government, and Veterans' Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2003-04-24** Rec From House
- **2003-04-23** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2003-04-22** Placed On Cal For 4/23/2003
- **2003-04-16** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2003-04-16** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2003-03-27** Ref To Com On Local Government I `referral-committee`
- **2003-03-26** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c7f164a6-1e97-4257-9fe8-eb16cc212194`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).