---
type: "Bill"
title: "Incorporate Cashiers."
description: "Incorporate Cashiers."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2003"
identifier: "HB 790"
citation: "North Carolina HB 790 (2003)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CHARTERS", "COUNTIES", "ELECTIONS", "LOCAL", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "MUNICIPAL INCORPORATION", "MUNICIPALITIES", "RATIFIED", "REFERENDUMS & INITIATIVES", "SESSION LAWS", "REP. HAIRE", "JACKSON COUNTY", "CHAPTERED", "CASHIERS"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 4
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2003-03-26"
last_action: "2003-05-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6154cf2c-dd94-4f3e-9bf8-f5f536e00371"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2003&BillID=H790&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "ec483ab89eeb815d022e0384be3711315cff80e110142b6f40ee89214bbc65c1"
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 790 (2003) — Incorporate Cashiers.

## 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/H790v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/House/PDF/H790v1.pdf)
3. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/House/PDF/H790v2.pdf)
4. **SL 2003-75** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/House/PDF/H790v3.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **48–0** (pass) · upper
- Second Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Haire — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2003-05-21** Ch. SL 2003-75 `became-law`
- **2003-05-21** Ratified
- **2003-05-20** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2003-05-15** Placed On Cal For 5/20/2003
- **2003-05-15** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2003-05-14** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2003-04-14** Ref To Com On Finance `referral-committee`
- **2003-04-14** Rec From House
- **2003-04-10** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2003-04-09** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2003-04-08** Placed On Cal For 4/9/2003
- **2003-04-08** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2003-04-08** Reptd Fav `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/6154cf2c-dd94-4f3e-9bf8-f5f536e00371`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).