---
type: "Bill"
title: "WS/FC School Board Vacancies."
description: "WS/FC School Board Vacancies."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2013"
identifier: "HB 196"
citation: "North Carolina HB 196 (2013)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["APPOINTMENTS", "BOARDS", "COUNTIES", "EDUCATION", "EDUCATION BOARDS", "ELEMENTARY EDUCATION", "KINDERGARTEN", "LOCAL", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "MUNICIPALITIES", "PUBLIC OFFICIALS", "RATIFIED", "SECONDARY EDUCATION", "FORSYTH COUNTY", "WINSTON-SALEM", "CHAPTERED"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Conrad", "Lambeth"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 22
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2013-02-28"
last_action: "2013-07-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a0aaf3df-4a7a-44c8-bbc8-a0cdaa38c53d"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2013&BillID=H196&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "40fdceb05d99085ee13f35cfc1eae761995b2b23a7b447673817fbe25cbf9a38"
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 196 (2013) — WS/FC School Board Vacancies.

## 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/2013/Bills/House/PDF/H196v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2013/Bills/House/PDF/H196v1.pdf)
3. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2013/Bills/House/PDF/H196v2.pdf)
4. **SL2013-249** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2013/Bills/House/PDF/H196v3.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Conrad — primary (person)
- Lambeth — primary (person)
- Howard — cosponsor (person)
- Malone — cosponsor (person)
- Whitmire — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2013-07-09** Ch. SL 2013-249 `became-law`
- **2013-07-09** Ratified
- **2013-07-01** Ordered Enrolled
- **2013-07-01** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2013-07-01** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2013-07-01** Placed on Today's Calendar
- **2013-07-01** Withdrawn From Senate Clerk's Office
- **2013-06-27** Held in Senate Clerk's Office
- **2013-06-27** Withdrawn From Cal
- **2013-06-26** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2013-05-06** Ref To Com On State and Local Government `referral-committee`
- **2013-05-06** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2013-05-06** Rec From House
- **2013-05-02** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2013-05-02** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2013-05-01** Placed On Cal For 05/02/2013
- **2013-05-01** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2013-05-01** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2013-04-22** Serial Referral To Government Stricken
- **2013-03-05** Ref to the Com on Elections, if favorable, Government `referral-committee`
- **2013-03-05** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2013-02-28** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a0aaf3df-4a7a-44c8-bbc8-a0cdaa38c53d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).