---
type: "Bill"
title: "Trustee Appointments/Isothermal Comm. Coll."
description: "Trustee Appointments/Isothermal Comm. Coll."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2015"
identifier: "HB 188"
citation: "North Carolina HB 188 (2015)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["APPOINTMENTS", "BOARDS", "COMMUNITY COLLEGES", "COUNTIES", "COUNTY COMMISSIONERS", "GENERAL ASSEMBLY", "LOCAL", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "MEMBERSHIP", "PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE", "RATIFIED", "SPEAKER", "RUTHERFORD COUNTY", "POLK COUNTY", "CHAPTERED", "COMMUNITY COLLEGE BOARDS"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 8
action_count: 31
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2015-03-10"
last_action: "2015-09-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/43b7b174-f123-4649-ab06-3b4f8d5d066c"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2015&BillID=H188&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "0e2988e808e86264b824376ca737457b2380d928a3f74e19537df5ec84530117"
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 188 (2015) — Trustee Appointments/Isothermal Comm. Coll.

## 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/H188v0.pdf)
2. **A1: ATC-101-V-3** (committee substitute) — [source](https://webservices.ncleg.net/ViewBillDocument/2015/6282/0/H188-ATC-101-V-3)
3. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2015/Bills/House/PDF/H188v1.pdf)
4. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2015/Bills/House/PDF/H188v2.pdf)
5. **Edition 3** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2015/Bills/House/PDF/H188v3.pdf)
6. **Edition 4** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2015/Bills/House/PDF/H188v4.pdf)
7. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2015/Bills/House/PDF/H188v5.pdf)
8. **SL2015-243** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2015/Bills/House/PDF/H188v6.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **32–15** (pass) · upper
- M11 Concur — **83–25** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Burr — cosponsor (person)
- Hager — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2015-09-21** Ch. SL 2015-243 `became-law`
- **2015-09-21** Ratified
- **2015-09-17** Ordered Enrolled
- **2015-09-17** Concurred In S/Com Sub `amendment-passage`
- **2015-09-17** Added to Calendar
- **2015-09-17** Cal Pursuant 36(b)
- **2015-09-17** Special Message Received For Concurrence in S Com Sub
- **2015-09-17** Special Message Sent To House
- **2015-09-17** Engrossed
- **2015-09-17** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2015-09-17** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2015-09-17** Amend Adopted A1 `amendment-passage`
- **2015-09-16** Com Substitute Adopted
- **2015-09-16** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2015-09-15** Re-ref Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2015-09-15** Withdrawn From Com
- **2015-05-07** Re-ref Com On Education/Higher Education `referral-committee`
- **2015-05-07** Withdrawn From Com
- **2015-04-02** Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2015-04-02** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2015-04-02** Regular Message Received From House
- **2015-04-02** Regular Message Sent To Senate
- **2015-04-01** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2015-04-01** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2015-03-31** Postponed To 04/01/2015
- **2015-03-31** Added to Calendar
- **2015-03-31** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2015-03-31** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2015-03-11** Ref To Com On Education - Community Colleges `referral-committee`
- **2015-03-11** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2015-03-10** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/43b7b174-f123-4649-ab06-3b4f8d5d066c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).