---
type: "Bill"
title: "Concealed Carry By Law Enforcement Officers."
description: "Concealed Carry By Law Enforcement Officers."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2005"
identifier: "HB 1401"
citation: "North Carolina HB 1401 (2005)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["LAW ENFORCEMENT", "LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS", "PRESENTED", "PUBLIC", "RATIFIED", "TITLE CHANGE", "WEAPONS", "CHAPTERED", "REP. FOLWELL"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 5
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2005-04-20"
last_action: "2005-08-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/98efa4d0-86bb-4ee2-af49-05c0ca92f66b"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2005&BillID=H1401&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "18bb777a6aa357952fbfd37a49635ee689184baacaff0fe8045526d702b57ff0"
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 1401 (2005) — Concealed Carry By Law Enforcement Officers.

## 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/2005/Bills/House/PDF/H1401v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2005/Bills/House/PDF/H1401v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2005/Bills/House/PDF/H1401v2.pdf)
4. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2005/Bills/House/PDF/H1401v3.pdf)
5. **SL2005-337** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2005/Bills/House/PDF/H1401v4.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **101–5** (pass) · lower
- Second Reading — **46–2** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Almond — cosponsor (person)
- Barnhart — cosponsor (person)
- Blackwood — cosponsor (person)
- Blust — cosponsor (person)
- Brown — cosponsor (person)
- Capps — cosponsor (person)
- Cleveland — cosponsor (person)
- Culp — cosponsor (person)
- Current — cosponsor (person)
- Dollar — cosponsor (person)
- Ed Jones — cosponsor (person)
- Folwell — cosponsor (person)
- Frye — cosponsor (person)
- Grady — cosponsor (person)
- Hilton — cosponsor (person)
- Hollo — cosponsor (person)
- Holloway — cosponsor (person)
- Howard — cosponsor (person)
- Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Justus — cosponsor (person)
- Kiser — cosponsor (person)
- LaRoque — cosponsor (person)
- Langdon — cosponsor (person)
- Lewis — cosponsor (person)
- McGee — cosponsor (person)
- McMahan — cosponsor (person)
- Moore — cosponsor (person)
- Preston — cosponsor (person)
- Setzer — cosponsor (person)
- Starnes — cosponsor (person)
- Vinson — cosponsor (person)
- Walend — cosponsor (person)
- Walker — cosponsor (person)
- Wiley — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2005-08-29** Ch. SL 2005-337 `became-law`
- **2005-08-29** Signed By Gov. 8/26/2005 `executive-signature`
- **2005-08-18** Pres. To Gov. 8/17/2005 `executive-receipt`
- **2005-08-16** Ratified
- **2005-08-12** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2005-08-12** Placed On Cal For 8/12/2005
- **2005-08-12** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2005-05-31** Ref To Com On Judiciary II `referral-committee`
- **2005-05-31** Rec From House
- **2005-05-26** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2005-05-25** Placed On Cal For 5/26/2005
- **2005-05-25** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2005-05-25** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2005-04-21** Ref To Com On Judiciary II `referral-committee`
- **2005-04-20** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/98efa4d0-86bb-4ee2-af49-05c0ca92f66b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).