---
type: "Bill"
title: "Consumer Guidelines for Hearing Aid Purchases."
description: "Consumer Guidelines for Hearing Aid Purchases."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2009"
identifier: "HB 1705"
citation: "North Carolina HB 1705 (2009)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["BOARDS", "COMMERCE", "CONSUMER PROTECTION", "HEALTH SERVICES", "LICENSING & CERTIFICATION", "OCCUPATIONS", "PRESENTED", "PUBLIC", "RATIFIED", "REPORTS", "TASK FORCES", "REP. WEISS", "CHAPTERED", "REP. ENGLAND", "REP. FARMER-BUTTERFIELD", "REP. PIERCE", "HEARING AID DEALERS BOARD"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["England", "Farmer-Butterfield", "Pierce"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 24
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2010-05-13"
last_action: "2010-07-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0ae21d6f-3887-4b86-860c-9a477beeb871"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2009&BillID=H1705&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "0803e441446939c81499f26c8c44e2f8e3a99bed2fb40702e013886162171d98"
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 1705 (2009) — Consumer Guidelines for Hearing Aid Purchases.

## 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/2009/Bills/House/PDF/H1705v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/House/PDF/H1705v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/House/PDF/H1705v2.pdf)
4. **Edition 3** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/House/PDF/H1705v3.pdf)
5. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/House/PDF/H1705v4.pdf)
6. **SL2010-121** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/House/PDF/H1705v5.pdf)

## Votes

- M11 Concur — **109–0** (pass) · lower
- Second Reading — **48–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- England — primary (person)
- Farmer-Butterfield — primary (person)
- Pierce — primary (person)
- Brown — cosponsor (person)
- Dockham — cosponsor (person)
- Gill — cosponsor (person)
- Harrison — cosponsor (person)
- Hughes — cosponsor (person)
- M. Alexander — cosponsor (person)
- Parfitt — cosponsor (person)
- R. Warren — cosponsor (person)
- Weiss — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2010-07-20** Ch. SL 2010-121 `became-law`
- **2010-07-20** Signed By Gov. 7/20/2010 `executive-signature`
- **2010-07-09** Pres. To Gov. 7/9/2010 `executive-receipt`
- **2010-07-09** Ratified
- **2010-07-08** Concurred In S/Com Sub `amendment-passage`
- **2010-07-08** Placed On Cal For 7/8/2010
- **2010-07-08** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2010-07-08** Reptd Fav To Concur `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2010-07-01** Ref To Com On Health `referral-committee`
- **2010-07-01** Rec To Concur S Com Sub
- **2010-07-01** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2010-06-30** Com Substitute Adopted
- **2010-06-30** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2010-06-14** Ref To Com On Health Care `referral-committee`
- **2010-06-11** Rec From House
- **2010-06-10** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2010-06-09** Placed On Cal For 6/10/2010
- **2010-06-09** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2010-06-09** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2010-05-24** Re-ref Com On Aging `referral-committee`
- **2010-05-24** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2010-05-17** Ref to the Com on Health, if favorable, Aging `referral-committee`
- **2010-05-17** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2010-05-13** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0ae21d6f-3887-4b86-860c-9a477beeb871`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).