---
type: "Bill"
title: "Local Mod: Economic Development Commissions."
description: "Local Mod: Economic Development Commissions."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2015"
identifier: "HB 243"
citation: "North Carolina HB 243 (2015)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["COMMISSIONS", "COUNTIES", "ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT", "LOCAL", "MEMBERSHIP", "RATIFIED", "MACON COUNTY", "CHAPTERED"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 4
action_count: 18
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2015-03-16"
last_action: "2015-05-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d5f36d64-9d4d-40a8-a4f7-8abaf328e08c"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2015&BillID=H243&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "8c2d3522b583da92cf6f8ed42335ba0bdeae7703ccb30c94ea668e29971a5e03"
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 243 (2015) — Local Mod: Economic Development Commissions.

## 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/H243v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2015/Bills/House/PDF/H243v1.pdf)
3. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2015/Bills/House/PDF/H243v2.pdf)
4. **SL2015-15** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2015/Bills/House/PDF/H243v3.pdf)

## Votes

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

## Sponsors

- Waddell — cosponsor (person)
- West — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2015-05-14** Ch. SL 2015-15 `became-law`
- **2015-05-14** Ratified
- **2015-05-13** Ordered Enrolled
- **2015-05-13** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2015-05-13** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2015-05-12** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2015-03-31** Ref To Com On State and Local Government `referral-committee`
- **2015-03-31** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2015-03-31** Regular Message Received From House
- **2015-03-31** Regular Message Sent To Senate
- **2015-03-30** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2015-03-30** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2015-03-26** Added to Calendar
- **2015-03-26** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2015-03-26** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2015-03-17** Ref To Com On Local Government `referral-committee`
- **2015-03-17** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2015-03-16** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d5f36d64-9d4d-40a8-a4f7-8abaf328e08c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).