---
type: "Bill"
title: "Abolish Wilkes County Coroner."
description: "Abolish Wilkes County Coroner."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2003"
identifier: "SB 1178"
citation: "North Carolina SB 1178 (2003)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CORONERS", "COUNTIES", "LOCAL", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "PUBLIC OFFICIALS", "RATIFIED", "SEN. GARWOOD", "WILKES COUNTY", "CHAPTERED"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 4
action_count: 11
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2004-05-19"
last_action: "2004-07-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5a8620f8-3a2b-4c7e-a105-e2f397c91634"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2003&BillID=S1178&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "669ee25aa4efb4b22b9b93f8dffa8790395227047b3926281c97593c946724f6"
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 SB 1178 (2003) — Abolish Wilkes County Coroner.

## 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/Senate/PDF/S1178v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/Senate/PDF/S1178v1.pdf)
3. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/Senate/PDF/S1178v2.pdf)
4. **SL 2004-51** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/Senate/PDF/S1178v3.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **42–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Garwood — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2004-07-07** Ch. SL 2004-51 `became-law`
- **2004-07-06** Ratified
- **2004-07-01** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2004-06-30** Placed On Cal For 7/1/2004
- **2004-06-24** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2004-06-24** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2004-05-31** Ref To Com On Local Government I `referral-committee`
- **2004-05-27** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2004-05-26** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2004-05-20** Ref To Com On State Government, Local Government, and Veterans' Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2004-05-19** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5a8620f8-3a2b-4c7e-a105-e2f397c91634`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).