---
type: "Bill"
title: "NH County Commissioners Accountability Act."
description: "NH County Commissioners Accountability Act."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2011"
identifier: "HB 437"
citation: "North Carolina HB 437 (2011)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["BOARDS", "CITY COUNCILS", "COMMISSIONS", "COMMITTEES", "COUNTIES", "COUNTY COMMISSIONERS", "LOCAL", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "MUNICIPALITIES", "RATIFIED", "REP. MCCOMAS", "NEW HANOVER COUNTY", "WILMINGTON", "CHAPTERED"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 6
action_count: 23
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2011-03-22"
last_action: "2012-06-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/81b9b6f8-7189-46d2-af2a-ce5e1298184f"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2011&BillID=H437&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "1dc2bfc577bed1f67d5a4d7077fc0696a38cdab25df203e968fae777ddb0962c"
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 437 (2011) — NH County Commissioners Accountability Act.

## 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/2011/Bills/House/PDF/H437v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/House/PDF/H437v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/House/PDF/H437v2.pdf)
4. **Edition 3** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/House/PDF/H437v3.pdf)
5. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/House/PDF/H437v4.pdf)
6. **SL2012-10** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/House/PDF/H437v5.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **115–2** (pass) · lower
- Second Reading — **107–5** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Hamilton — cosponsor (person)
- McComas — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2012-06-07** Ch. SL 2012-10 `became-law`
- **2012-06-07** Ratified
- **2012-06-06** Concurred In S/Com Sub `amendment-passage`
- **2012-06-06** Placed On Cal For 6/6/2012
- **2012-06-06** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2012-06-06** Rec To Concur S Com Sub
- **2012-06-06** Rec From Senate
- **2012-06-06** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2012-06-05** Com Substitute Adopted
- **2012-06-05** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-06-10** Ref To Com On State and Local Government `referral-committee`
- **2011-06-10** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2011-06-10** Rec From House
- **2011-06-09** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2011-06-08** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2011-06-08** Placed On Cal For 6/8/2011
- **2011-06-08** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2011-06-08** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-06-07** Re-ref Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2011-06-07** Withdrawn From Com
- **2011-03-24** Ref To Com On Government `referral-committee`
- **2011-03-24** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2011-03-22** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/81b9b6f8-7189-46d2-af2a-ce5e1298184f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).