---
type: "Bill"
title: "Soil and Water Conservation Commission."
description: "Soil and Water Conservation Commission."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2003"
identifier: "HB 727"
citation: "North Carolina HB 727 (2003)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["COMMISSIONS", "ENVIRONMENT", "ETHICS", "MEMBERSHIP", "PRESENTED", "PUBLIC", "RATIFIED", "SOIL & WATER CONSERVATION COMN.", "SOILS", "WATER RESOURCES", "REP. CULP", "CHAPTERED"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 4
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2003-03-26"
last_action: "2003-06-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a835ee7a-e4a4-41c6-93cd-430b23d38520"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2003&BillID=H727&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "cffbffd4ae5ecea5d6c8654268ca461d3fdc05ab33b575c6db9963d5446884fc"
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 727 (2003) — Soil and Water Conservation Commission.

## 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/H727v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/House/PDF/H727v1.pdf)
3. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/House/PDF/H727v2.pdf)
4. **SL 2003-198** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/House/PDF/H727v3.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Barbee — cosponsor (person)
- Blust — cosponsor (person)
- Church — cosponsor (person)
- Culp — cosponsor (person)
- Dockham — cosponsor (person)
- Fox — cosponsor (person)
- G. Wilson — cosponsor (person)
- Gibson — cosponsor (person)
- Hill — cosponsor (person)
- Lewis — cosponsor (person)
- McGee — cosponsor (person)
- Ray — cosponsor (person)
- Rhodes — cosponsor (person)
- Saunders — cosponsor (person)
- Tolson — cosponsor (person)
- Walker — cosponsor (person)
- West — cosponsor (person)
- Yongue — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2003-06-16** Ch. SL 2003-198 `became-law`
- **2003-06-16** Signed By Gov. 6/13/2003 `executive-signature`
- **2003-06-09** Pres. To Gov. 6/6/2003 `executive-receipt`
- **2003-06-05** Ratified
- **2003-06-04** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2003-06-03** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2003-05-15** Re-ref Com On Agriculture/Environment/Natural Resources `referral-committee`
- **2003-05-15** Withdrawn From Cal
- **2003-05-08** Placed On Cal For 5/15/2003
- **2003-05-08** Withdrawn From Cal
- **2003-05-08** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2003-05-07** 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`
- **2003-03-27** Ref To Com On State Government `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/a835ee7a-e4a4-41c6-93cd-430b23d38520`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).