---
type: "Bill"
title: "Campaigning Outside Polls."
description: "Campaigning Outside Polls."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2003"
identifier: "HB 819"
citation: "North Carolina HB 819 (2003)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["BOARDS", "COUNTIES", "ELECTIONS", "ELECTIONS BOARDS", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "POLITICAL ACTIVITY", "PRESENTED", "PUBLIC", "RATIFIED", "REP. ELLIS", "REP. MILLER", "CHAPTERED"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Miller"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2003-03-31"
last_action: "2003-08-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4d26d2b7-fa0a-4c5d-b6a3-5e59f228ccfe"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2003&BillID=H819&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "d964246de4c6e5e4d36cd9be19a6cc6591995c853daf7d52507f5342e39bed5d"
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 819 (2003) — Campaigning Outside Polls.

## 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/H819v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/House/PDF/H819v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/House/PDF/H819v2.pdf)
4. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/House/PDF/H819v3.pdf)
5. **SL 2003-365** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/House/PDF/H819v4.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **43–0** (pass) · upper
- M11 Concur — **99–5** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Miller — primary (person)
- Barnhart — cosponsor (person)
- Blackwood — cosponsor (person)
- Blust — cosponsor (person)
- Bowie — cosponsor (person)
- C. Wilson — cosponsor (person)
- Capps — cosponsor (person)
- Culp — cosponsor (person)
- Ellis — cosponsor (person)
- Frye — cosponsor (person)
- G. Wilson — cosponsor (person)
- Gorman — cosponsor (person)
- Gulley — cosponsor (person)
- Hilton — cosponsor (person)
- Holmes — cosponsor (person)
- Howard — cosponsor (person)
- Hunter — cosponsor (person)
- Justice — cosponsor (person)
- Justus — cosponsor (person)
- K. Williams — cosponsor (person)
- Kiser — cosponsor (person)
- L. Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- LaRoque — cosponsor (person)
- Lewis — cosponsor (person)
- Luebke — cosponsor (person)
- McGee — cosponsor (person)
- McHenry — cosponsor (person)
- Michaux — cosponsor (person)
- Moore — cosponsor (person)
- Munford — cosponsor (person)
- Pate — cosponsor (person)
- Preston — cosponsor (person)
- Ray — cosponsor (person)
- Setzer — cosponsor (person)
- Sexton — cosponsor (person)
- Stam — cosponsor (person)
- Walend — cosponsor (person)
- Walker — cosponsor (person)
- West — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2003-08-01** Ch. SL 2003-365 `became-law`
- **2003-08-01** Signed By Gov. 8/1/2003 `executive-signature`
- **2003-07-20** Pres. To Gov. 7/20/2003 `executive-receipt`
- **2003-07-19** Ratified
- **2003-07-19** Concurred In S/Com Sub `amendment-passage`
- **2003-07-18** Placed On Cal For 7/19/2003
- **2003-07-18** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2003-07-18** Rec To Concur S Com Sub
- **2003-07-18** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2003-07-18** Placed On Cal For 7/18/2003
- **2003-07-18** Com Substitute Adopted
- **2003-07-18** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2003-04-28** Ref To Com On Judiciary I `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
- **2003-04-17** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2003-04-17** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2003-04-01** Ref To Com On Election Law and Campaign Finance Reform `referral-committee`
- **2003-03-31** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4d26d2b7-fa0a-4c5d-b6a3-5e59f228ccfe`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).