---
type: "Bill"
title: "Gastonia Charter Revisions."
description: "Gastonia Charter Revisions."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 154"
citation: "North Carolina HB 154 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CHARTERS", "COUNTIES", "LOCAL", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "MUNICIPALITIES", "RATIFIED", "SESSION LAWS", "GASTONIA", "GASTON COUNTY", "CHAPTERED"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 4
action_count: 29
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-02-21"
last_action: "2017-06-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/aaa177e1-083b-4d05-9c6a-164ee15360d3"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2017&BillID=H154&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "8aa04009efe8d715997ec324837abe7814265dec79954b52b75071532aaae9e7"
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 154 (2017) — Gastonia Charter Revisions.

## 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/2017/Bills/House/PDF/H154v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2017/Bills/House/PDF/H154v1.pdf)
3. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2017/Bills/House/PDF/H154v2.pdf)
4. **SL 2017-37** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2017/Bills/House/PDF/H154v3.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **49–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Bumgardner — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-06-21** Ch. SL 2017-37 `became-law`
- **2017-06-21** Ratified
- **2017-06-20** Ordered Enrolled
- **2017-06-20** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2017-06-19** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2017-06-15** Placed On Cal For 06/19/2017
- **2017-06-15** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-06-13** Re-ref Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2017-06-13** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-06-06** Re-ref Com On Finance `referral-committee`
- **2017-06-06** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-06-06** Re-ref to State and Local Government. If fav, re-ref to Finance. If fav, re-ref to Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2017-06-06** Withdrawn From Com
- **2017-05-23** Re-ref to State and Local Government. If fav, re-ref to Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2017-05-23** Withdrawn From Com
- **2017-03-30** Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-30** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2017-03-30** Regular Message Received From House
- **2017-03-30** Regular Message Sent To Senate
- **2017-03-29** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2017-03-28** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2017-03-28** Added to Calendar
- **2017-03-28** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2017-03-28** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-15** Re-ref Com On Finance `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-15** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-22** Ref to the Com on State and Local Government I, if favorable, Finance `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-22** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2017-02-21** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/aaa177e1-083b-4d05-9c6a-164ee15360d3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).