---
type: "Bill"
title: "Continuing Budget Authority."
description: "Continuing Budget Authority."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2015"
identifier: "HB 18"
citation: "North Carolina HB 18 (2015)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["APPROPRIATIONS", "BUDGETING", "EDUCATION", "ELEMENTARY EDUCATION", "PRESENTED", "PUBLIC", "PUBLIC INSTRUCTION DEPT.", "RATIFIED", "SECONDARY EDUCATION", "SESSION LAWS", "TITLE CHANGE", "SUNSETS", "CHAPTERED"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Horn", "S. Martin", "Shepard"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 32
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2015-01-28"
last_action: "2015-08-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/db56fefa-2cdc-49be-a354-7bffb4bb705b"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2015&BillID=H18&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "ff6c9285c1c73277fecb80206742eb373d887ec56d0916d9933c6a558bec29b0"
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 18 (2015) — Continuing Budget Authority.

## 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/H18v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2015/Bills/House/PDF/H18v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2015/Bills/House/PDF/H18v2.pdf)
4. **Edition 3** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2015/Bills/House/PDF/H18v3.pdf)
5. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2015/Bills/House/PDF/H18v4.pdf)
6. **SL2015-233** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2015/Bills/House/PDF/H18v5.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **37–6** (pass) · upper
- M11 Concur — **109–4** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Horn — primary (person)
- S. Martin — primary (person)
- Shepard — primary (person)
- B. Turner — cosponsor (person)
- Cleveland — cosponsor (person)
- Hanes — cosponsor (person)
- Insko — cosponsor (person)
- Jones — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2015-08-27** Ch. SL 2015-233 `became-law`
- **2015-08-27** Signed by Gov. 8/27/2015 `executive-signature`
- **2015-08-27** Pres. To Gov. 8/27/2015 `executive-receipt`
- **2015-08-27** Ratified
- **2015-08-27** Ordered Enrolled
- **2015-08-27** Concurred In S/Com Sub `amendment-passage`
- **2015-08-27** Added to Calendar
- **2015-08-27** Special Message Received For Concurrence in S Com Sub
- **2015-08-27** Special Message Sent To House
- **2015-08-27** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2015-08-27** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2015-08-27** Placed on Today's Calendar
- **2015-08-27** Com Substitute Adopted
- **2015-08-27** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2015-05-13** Re-ref Com On Appropriations/Base Budget `referral-committee`
- **2015-05-13** Withdrawn From Cal
- **2015-05-13** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2015-05-05** Re-ref Com On Education/Higher Education `referral-committee`
- **2015-05-05** Withdrawn From Com
- **2015-03-19** Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2015-03-19** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2015-03-19** Regular Message Received From House
- **2015-03-19** Regular Message Sent To Senate
- **2015-03-18** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2015-03-18** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2015-03-17** Placed On Cal For 03/18/2015
- **2015-03-17** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2015-03-17** Serial Referral To Appropriations Stricken
- **2015-03-17** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2015-01-29** Ref to the Com on Education - K-12, if favorable, Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2015-01-29** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2015-01-28** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/db56fefa-2cdc-49be-a354-7bffb4bb705b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).