---
type: "Bill"
title: "Apex/Cary/Police Assistance on School Grounds."
description: "Apex/Cary/Police Assistance on School Grounds."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 55"
citation: "North Carolina HB 55 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["BOARDS", "COUNTIES", "EDUCATION", "EDUCATION BOARDS", "EMERGENCY SERVICES", "LAW ENFORCEMENT", "LOCAL", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "MUNICIPALITIES", "RATIFIED", "SECONDARY EDUCATION", "WAKE COUNTY", "CARY", "CHAPTERED", "APEX"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dollar", "G. Adcock", "Williams"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 22
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2017-02-07"
last_action: "2017-06-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/40813268-7b78-43b1-a2f6-cee4d5b93bfc"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2017&BillID=H55&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "aff0d3d212f85402b7810c60d3015dd15ee02778904d7075ba602f937d584c70"
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 55 (2017) — Apex/Cary/Police Assistance on School Grounds.

## 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/H55v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2017/Bills/House/PDF/H55v1.pdf)
3. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2017/Bills/House/PDF/H55v2.pdf)
4. **SL 2017-34** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2017/Bills/House/PDF/H55v3.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **118–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Dollar — primary (person)
- G. Adcock — primary (person)
- Williams — primary (person)
- Duane Hall — cosponsor (person)
- Faircloth — cosponsor (person)
- Gill — cosponsor (person)
- Jackson — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-06-19** Ch. SL 2017-34 `became-law`
- **2017-06-19** Ratified
- **2017-06-15** Ordered Enrolled
- **2017-06-15** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2017-06-15** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2017-06-14** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-06-06** Re-ref Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2017-06-06** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-06-05** Re-ref to State and Local Government. If fav, re-ref to Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2017-06-05** Withdrawn From Com
- **2017-03-09** Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-09** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2017-03-09** Regular Message Received From House
- **2017-03-09** Regular Message Sent To Senate
- **2017-03-08** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2017-03-08** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2017-03-08** Added to Calendar
- **2017-03-08** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2017-03-08** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-08** Ref To Com On State and Local Government II `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-08** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2017-02-07** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/40813268-7b78-43b1-a2f6-cee4d5b93bfc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).