---
type: "Bill"
title: "Substitute Teacher Deduction/Personal Leave."
description: "Substitute Teacher Deduction/Personal Leave."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2013"
identifier: "HB 249"
citation: "North Carolina HB 249 (2013)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["BOARDS", "EDUCATION", "EDUCATION BOARDS", "ELEMENTARY EDUCATION", "EMPLOYMENT", "KINDERGARTEN", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "OCCUPATIONS", "PERSONNEL", "PRESENTED", "PUBLIC", "RATIFIED", "SALARIES & BENEFITS", "SECONDARY EDUCATION", "STATE EMPLOYEES", "TEACHERS", "CHAPTERED"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Blackwell", "Glazier", "Holloway"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2013-03-06"
last_action: "2013-07-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ebd5b9d5-e368-4fb9-9909-3c0af22a7e23"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2013&BillID=H249&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "531cea5e33fbb7041e6cdcd68bbd632918e5cdd4360f32fd51262fb122cb6e46"
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 249 (2013) — Substitute Teacher Deduction/Personal Leave.

## 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/H249v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2013/Bills/House/PDF/H249v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2013/Bills/House/PDF/H249v2.pdf)
4. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2013/Bills/House/PDF/H249v3.pdf)
5. **SL2013-240** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2013/Bills/House/PDF/H249v4.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper
- Second Reading — **117–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Blackwell — primary (person)
- Glazier — primary (person)
- Holloway — primary (person)
- Collins — cosponsor (person)
- Cotham — cosponsor (person)
- Dockham — cosponsor (person)
- Elmore — cosponsor (person)
- Farmer-Butterfield — cosponsor (person)
- Floyd — cosponsor (person)
- Gill — cosponsor (person)
- Hamilton — cosponsor (person)
- Harrison — cosponsor (person)
- Jones — cosponsor (person)
- Jordan — cosponsor (person)
- Lucas — cosponsor (person)
- Shepard — cosponsor (person)
- Waddell — cosponsor (person)
- Wray — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2013-07-03** Ch. SL 2013-240 `became-law`
- **2013-07-03** Signed by Gov. 7/3/2013 `executive-signature`
- **2013-06-25** Pres. To Gov. 6/25/2013 `executive-receipt`
- **2013-06-24** Ratified
- **2013-06-20** Ordered Enrolled
- **2013-06-20** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2013-06-20** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2013-06-19** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2013-03-21** Ref To Com On Education/Higher Education `referral-committee`
- **2013-03-21** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2013-03-21** Rec From House
- **2013-03-20** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2013-03-20** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2013-03-19** Placed On Cal For 03/20/2013
- **2013-03-19** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2013-03-19** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2013-03-19** Serial Referral To Finance Stricken
- **2013-03-07** Ref to the Com on Education, if favorable, Finance `referral-committee`
- **2013-03-07** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2013-03-06** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ebd5b9d5-e368-4fb9-9909-3c0af22a7e23`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).