---
type: "Bill"
title: "Disaster Leave/Vol. Emergency Personnel."
description: "Disaster Leave/Vol. Emergency Personnel."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2003"
identifier: "SB 940"
citation: "North Carolina SB 940 (2003)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["DISASTERS & EMERGENCIES", "EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT", "EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES", "EMERGENCY SERVICES", "EMPLOYMENT", "FIREFIGHTING", "GOVERNOR", "HEALTH SERVICES", "LABOR DEPT.", "PERSONNEL", "PRESENTED", "PUBLIC", "RATIFIED", "RESCUE SQUADS", "VOLUNTEERS", "SEN. KERR", "CHAPTERED"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 5
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2003-04-02"
last_action: "2003-05-31"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/15d04468-0db9-4cb1-8307-f55d3e7b9e53"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2003&BillID=S940&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "f03730394b02b15b3f240c249b721dba07ec85393e3663ac376950e73a37d8de"
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 940 (2003) — Disaster Leave/Vol. Emergency Personnel.

## 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/S940v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/Senate/PDF/S940v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/Senate/PDF/S940v2.pdf)
4. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/Senate/PDF/S940v3.pdf)
5. **SL 2003-103** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/Senate/PDF/S940v4.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **117–0** (pass) · lower
- Amendment 1 — **48–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Kerr — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2003-05-31** Ch. SL 2003-103 `became-law`
- **2003-05-31** Signed By Gov. 5/31/2003 `executive-signature`
- **2003-05-27** Pres. To Gov. 5/22/2003 `executive-receipt`
- **2003-05-21** Ratified
- **2003-05-20** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2003-05-19** Placed On Cal For 5/20/2003
- **2003-05-14** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2003-05-14** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2003-04-24** Ref To Com On State Government `referral-committee`
- **2003-04-24** Rec From Senate
- **2003-04-22** Engrossed
- **2003-04-22** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2003-04-22** Amend Adopted # 1 `amendment-passage`
- **2003-04-17** Placed On Cal For 4/22/2003
- **2003-04-17** Withdrawn From Cal
- **2003-04-16** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2003-04-03** Ref To Com On State Government, Local Government, and Veterans' Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2003-04-02** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/15d04468-0db9-4cb1-8307-f55d3e7b9e53`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).