---
type: "Bill"
title: "Carolina Shores Charter."
description: "Carolina Shores Charter."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2003"
identifier: "HB 742"
citation: "North Carolina HB 742 (2003)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ANNEXATION", "CHARTERS", "COUNTIES", "LOCAL", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "MUNICIPALITIES", "PLANNING & ZONING", "RATIFIED", "SESSION LAWS", "REP. HILL", "BRUNSWICK COUNTY", "CHAPTERED", "REP. STILLER", "CAROLINA SHORES"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hill"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2003-03-26"
last_action: "2003-05-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/90422684-9248-4048-85dd-f77c9a3e4904"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2003&BillID=H742&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "1c0f32df9548dbe69e526c798ed738cfa29d5ba3ade783cb6c5c1b69cc9117d9"
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 742 (2003) — Carolina Shores Charter.

## 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/H742v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/House/PDF/H742v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/House/PDF/H742v2.pdf)
4. **Edition 3** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/House/PDF/H742v3.pdf)
5. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/House/PDF/H742v4.pdf)
6. **SL 2003-78** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/House/PDF/H742v5.pdf)

## Votes

- M11 Concur — **110–0** (pass) · lower
- Second Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Hill — primary (person)
- Stiller — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2003-05-27** Ch. SL 2003-78 `became-law`
- **2003-05-22** Ratified
- **2003-05-21** Concurred In S/Com Sub `amendment-passage`
- **2003-05-20** Placed On Cal For 5/21/2003
- **2003-05-20** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2003-05-20** Rec To Concur S Com Sub
- **2003-05-15** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2003-05-15** Placed On Cal For 5/15/2003
- **2003-05-15** Com Substitute Adopted
- **2003-05-15** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2003-04-30** Ref To Com On Finance `referral-committee`
- **2003-04-30** Rec From House
- **2003-04-29** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2003-04-28** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2003-04-24** Placed On Cal For 4/28/2003
- **2003-04-24** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2003-04-24** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2003-03-27** Ref To Com On Finance `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/90422684-9248-4048-85dd-f77c9a3e4904`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).