---
type: "Bill"
title: "Reporting Absentee Votes."
description: "Reporting Absentee Votes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2003"
identifier: "HB 869"
citation: "North Carolina HB 869 (2003)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["BOARDS", "CALENDAR", "COUNTIES", "ELECTIONS", "ELECTIONS", "STATE BOARD OF", "PRESENTED", "PUBLIC", "RATIFIED", "CHAPTERED", "REP. GORMAN"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 4
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2003-04-03"
last_action: "2003-06-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/56be2888-685d-4985-9304-f5a025d72d32"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2003&BillID=H869&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "797772e93f4acc4f21c651087f3c1f071df455495158134edd62d0fc973e3765"
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 869 (2003) — Reporting Absentee Votes.

## 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/H869v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/House/PDF/H869v1.pdf)
3. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/House/PDF/H869v2.pdf)
4. **SL 2003-183** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/House/PDF/H869v3.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper
- Second Reading — **97–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Blust — cosponsor (person)
- Gorman — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2003-06-18** Ch. SL 2003-183 `became-law`
- **2003-06-18** Signed By Gov. 6/12/2003 `executive-signature`
- **2003-06-09** Pres. To Gov. 6/5/2003 `executive-receipt`
- **2003-06-04** Ratified
- **2003-06-03** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2003-06-02** Placed On Cal For 6/3/2003
- **2003-06-02** Withdrawn From Cal
- **2003-05-29** Reptd Fav `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
- **2003-04-21** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2003-04-21** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2003-04-07** Ref To Com On Election Law and Campaign Finance Reform `referral-committee`
- **2003-04-03** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/56be2888-685d-4985-9304-f5a025d72d32`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).