---
type: "Bill"
title: "New Bern Charter/Revised & Consolidated."
description: "New Bern Charter/Revised & Consolidated."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2015"
identifier: "HB 1045"
citation: "North Carolina HB 1045 (2015)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CHARTERS", "COUNTIES", "LOCAL", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "MUNICIPALITIES", "RATIFIED", "SESSION LAWS", "CRAVEN COUNTY", "NEW BERN", "CHAPTERED"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["J. Bell", "Speciale"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2016-05-04"
last_action: "2016-06-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4e8384d8-046c-4cb0-9f66-11b43e94522b"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2015&BillID=H1045&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "fc71119e6c055ff45c10c8a100f1a3495794427f93ef761994df5ef94f020609"
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 1045 (2015) — New Bern Charter/Revised & Consolidated.

## 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/2015/Bills/House/PDF/H1045v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2015/Bills/House/PDF/H1045v1.pdf)
3. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2015/Bills/House/PDF/H1045v2.pdf)
4. **SL 2016-41** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2015/Bills/House/PDF/H1045v3.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **44–0** (pass) · upper
- Second Reading — **43–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- J. Bell — primary (person)
- Speciale — primary (person)
- G. Graham — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2016-06-27** Ch. SL 2016-41 `became-law`
- **2016-06-27** Ratified
- **2016-06-23** Ordered Enrolled
- **2016-06-23** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2016-06-22** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2016-06-21** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2016-06-16** Ref To Com On State and Local Government `referral-committee`
- **2016-06-16** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2016-06-15** Regular Message Received From House
- **2016-06-15** Regular Message Sent To Senate
- **2016-06-14** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2016-06-13** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2016-06-09** Placed On Cal For 06/13/2016
- **2016-06-09** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2016-06-09** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2016-06-02** Re-ref Com On Finance `referral-committee`
- **2016-06-02** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2016-05-09** Ref to the Com on Local Government, if favorable, Finance `referral-committee`
- **2016-05-09** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2016-05-04** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4e8384d8-046c-4cb0-9f66-11b43e94522b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).