---
type: "Bill"
title: "Charlotte/Civil Service Board."
description: "Charlotte/Civil Service Board."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2015"
identifier: "HB 143"
citation: "North Carolina HB 143 (2015)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["BOARDS", "CHARTERS", "CIVIL SERVICE BOARDS", "COUNTIES", "EMPLOYMENT", "LOCAL", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "MEMBERSHIP", "MUNICIPALITIES", "RATIFIED", "SESSION LAWS", "MECKLENBURG COUNTY", "CHARLOTTE", "CHAPTERED"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bishop", "Cotham", "Cunningham"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 21
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2015-03-03"
last_action: "2015-05-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f21bfa31-948a-49ed-9dbd-d53d0f7e0f5b"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2015&BillID=H143&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "bda9f5d22b06b0998326327fcbc5e886f425f60151f879c0cde86b853d532153"
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 143 (2015) — Charlotte/Civil Service Board.

## 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/H143v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2015/Bills/House/PDF/H143v1.pdf)
3. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2015/Bills/House/PDF/H143v2.pdf)
4. **SL2015-33** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2015/Bills/House/PDF/H143v3.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **113–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Bishop — primary (person)
- Cotham — primary (person)
- Cunningham — primary (person)
- Alexander — cosponsor (person)
- Bradford — cosponsor (person)
- C. Graham — cosponsor (person)
- Carney — cosponsor (person)
- Earle — cosponsor (person)
- Floyd — cosponsor (person)
- G. Graham — cosponsor (person)
- Jeter — cosponsor (person)
- R. Moore — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2015-05-21** Ch. SL 2015-33 `became-law`
- **2015-05-21** Ratified
- **2015-05-20** Ordered Enrolled
- **2015-05-20** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2015-05-20** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2015-05-19** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2015-05-07** Re-ref Com On State and Local Government `referral-committee`
- **2015-05-07** Withdrawn From Com
- **2015-03-25** Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2015-03-25** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2015-03-25** Regular Message Received From House
- **2015-03-25** Regular Message Sent To Senate
- **2015-03-24** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2015-03-24** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2015-03-23** Postponed To 03/24/2015
- **2015-03-19** Placed On Cal For 03/23/2015
- **2015-03-19** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2015-03-19** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2015-03-04** Ref To Com On Local Government `referral-committee`
- **2015-03-04** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2015-03-03** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f21bfa31-948a-49ed-9dbd-d53d0f7e0f5b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).