---
type: "Bill"
title: "Increase Davie County Force Account Limit."
description: "Increase Davie County Force Account Limit."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2005"
identifier: "HB 997"
citation: "North Carolina HB 997 (2005)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["BUILDINGS", "CONSTRUCTION", "COUNTIES", "EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES", "EMERGENCY SERVICES", "HEALTH SERVICES", "LOCAL", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "DEBT/LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "RATIFIED", "REP. HOWARD", "DAVIE COUNTY", "CHAPTERED"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 4
action_count: 12
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2005-03-29"
last_action: "2005-05-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/91d179fd-07cb-4008-9ec8-d8e165187d3b"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2005&BillID=H997&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "fe6c9f2860edfcaccb3ed6a2c2fd340ff7d3e487db235502f7674d1df1b10089"
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 997 (2005) — Increase Davie County Force Account Limit.

## 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/H997v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2005/Bills/House/PDF/H997v1.pdf)
3. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2005/Bills/House/PDF/H997v2.pdf)
4. **SL2005-32** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2005/Bills/House/PDF/H997v3.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **49–0** (pass) · upper
- Second Reading — **105–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Howard — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2005-05-09** Ch. SL 2005-32 `became-law`
- **2005-05-09** Ratified
- **2005-05-05** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2005-05-04** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2005-04-25** Ref To Com On State and Local Government `referral-committee`
- **2005-04-25** Rec From House
- **2005-04-21** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2005-04-20** Placed On Cal For 4/21/2005
- **2005-04-20** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2005-04-20** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2005-03-30** Ref To Com On Local Government II `referral-committee`
- **2005-03-29** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/91d179fd-07cb-4008-9ec8-d8e165187d3b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).