---
type: "Bill"
title: "Replacing Officials Called to Active Duty."
description: "Replacing Officials Called to Active Duty."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2007"
identifier: "HB 671"
citation: "North Carolina HB 671 (2007)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ARMED FORCES", "COUNTIES", "EMPLOYMENT", "GENERAL ASSEMBLY", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "MEMBERSHIP", "MUNICIPALITIES", "PERSONNEL", "PRESENTED", "PUBLIC", "PUBLIC OFFICIALS", "RATIFIED", "CHAPTERED", "REP. MARTIN", "REP. KILLIAN"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Martin"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 32
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2007-03-14"
last_action: "2007-08-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/962814d7-26eb-41bd-a6d1-8020f20abfea"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2007&BillID=H671&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "8dd11e37c468d57427e8ff5b5d7809e0a788ee61f0495afe0b1997c7a77bf794"
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 671 (2007) — Replacing Officials Called to Active Duty.

## 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/2007/Bills/House/PDF/H671v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/House/PDF/H671v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/House/PDF/H671v2.pdf)
4. **Edition 3** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/House/PDF/H671v3.pdf)
5. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/House/PDF/H671v4.pdf)
6. **SL2007-432** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/House/PDF/H671v5.pdf)

## Votes

- Conference Rpt\Motion 7\To Adopt — **48–0** (pass) · upper
- C Rpt Adopt — **106–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Martin — primary (person)
- Blust — cosponsor (person)
- Brown — cosponsor (person)
- Church — cosponsor (person)
- Cleveland — cosponsor (person)
- Current — cosponsor (person)
- Daughtry — cosponsor (person)
- Folwell — cosponsor (person)
- Glazier — cosponsor (person)
- Gulley — cosponsor (person)
- Harrison — cosponsor (person)
- Killian — cosponsor (person)
- M. Alexander — cosponsor (person)
- Moore — cosponsor (person)
- Ross — cosponsor (person)
- Saunders — cosponsor (person)
- Steen — cosponsor (person)
- Underhill — cosponsor (person)
- Wainwright — cosponsor (person)
- Weiss — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2007-08-23** Ch. SL 2007-432 `became-law`
- **2007-08-23** Signed By Gov. 8/23/2007 `executive-signature`
- **2007-08-02** Pres. To Gov. 8/3/2007 `executive-receipt`
- **2007-08-02** Ratified
- **2007-08-02** Conf Report Adopted
- **2007-08-02** Conf Report Adopted
- **2007-08-01** Placed On Cal For 8/1/2007
- **2007-08-01** Conf Com Reported
- **2007-08-01** Placed On Cal For 8/2/2007
- **2007-08-01** Conf Com Reported
- **2007-08-01** Conf Com Appointed
- **2007-07-31** Conf Com Appointed
- **2007-07-31** Failed concur in S/Com Sub
- **2007-07-30** Placed On Cal For 7/31/2007
- **2007-07-30** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2007-07-30** Rec To Concur S Com Sub
- **2007-07-30** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2007-07-26** Placed On Cal For 7/30/2007
- **2007-07-26** Withdrawn From Cal
- **2007-07-25** Com Substitute Adopted
- **2007-07-25** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2007-05-07** Ref To Com On State & Local Government `referral-committee`
- **2007-05-07** Rec From House
- **2007-05-03** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2007-05-02** Placed On Cal For 5/3/2007
- **2007-05-02** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2007-05-02** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2007-04-02** Re-ref Com On State Personnel `referral-committee`
- **2007-04-02** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2007-03-15** Ref to the Com on Homeland Security, Military and Veterans Affairs and, if favorable, to the Com on State Personnel `referral-committee`
- **2007-03-15** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2007-03-14** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/962814d7-26eb-41bd-a6d1-8020f20abfea`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).