---
type: "Bill"
title: "Belmont Street Lighting Assessments."
description: "Belmont Street Lighting Assessments."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2005"
identifier: "HB 581"
citation: "North Carolina HB 581 (2005)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["COUNTIES", "INFRASTRUCTURE", "LOCAL", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "MUNICIPALITIES", "RATIFIED", "ROADS & HIGHWAYS", "TRANSPORTATION", "REP. RAYFIELD", "GASTON COUNTY", "CHAPTERED", "BELMONT"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 4
action_count: 17
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2005-03-09"
last_action: "2005-06-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/27129861-292c-47df-85ad-bb8fc3dabcce"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2005&BillID=H581&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "9d0540193ffd6f613c959b2ff10545f4d49affe8d2e7d0ecc20d65c93b2d67a2"
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 581 (2005) — Belmont Street Lighting Assessments.

## 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/H581v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2005/Bills/House/PDF/H581v1.pdf)
3. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2005/Bills/House/PDF/H581v2.pdf)
4. **SL2005-111** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2005/Bills/House/PDF/H581v3.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **48–0** (pass) · upper
- Second Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Rayfield — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2005-06-23** Ch. SL 2005-111 `became-law`
- **2005-06-23** Ratified
- **2005-06-22** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2005-06-21** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2005-06-15** Placed On Cal For 6/21/2005
- **2005-06-15** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2005-05-02** Ref To Com On Finance `referral-committee`
- **2005-05-02** Rec From House
- **2005-04-27** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2005-04-26** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2005-04-25** Placed On Cal For 4/26/2005
- **2005-04-19** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2005-04-19** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2005-04-06** Re-ref Com On Finance `referral-committee`
- **2005-04-06** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2005-03-10** Ref To Com On Local Government II `referral-committee`
- **2005-03-09** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/27129861-292c-47df-85ad-bb8fc3dabcce`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).