---
type: "Bill"
title: "Rockingham County School Board/Chair Term."
description: "Rockingham County School Board/Chair Term."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 954"
citation: "North Carolina HB 954 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["BOARDS", "COUNTIES", "EDUCATION", "EDUCATION BOARDS", "ELEMENTARY EDUCATION", "KINDERGARTEN", "LOCAL", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "MEMBERSHIP", "MUNICIPALITIES", "RATIFIED", "SECONDARY EDUCATION", "TERM LENGTHS & LIMITS", "ROCKINGHAM COUNTY", "CHAPTERED"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bert Jones"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 23
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2018-05-16"
last_action: "2018-06-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4694ac2e-3846-477a-a5d0-2cfa4bde6bd0"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2017&BillID=H954&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "99df4c651c7fc9e31fb9e6a872b832e4ab7663609e8a4ddfb641b22e200e7845"
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 954 (2017) — Rockingham County School Board/Chair Term.

## 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/H954v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2017/Bills/House/PDF/H954v1.pdf)
3. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2017/Bills/House/PDF/H954v2.pdf)
4. **SL 2018-17** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2017/Bills/House/PDF/H954v3.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **91–21** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Bert Jones — primary (person)
- Gill — cosponsor (person)
- K. Hall — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-06-21** Ch. SL 2018-17 `became-law`
- **2018-06-21** Ratified
- **2018-06-20** Ordered Enrolled
- **2018-06-20** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2018-06-20** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2018-06-20** Placed on Today's Calendar
- **2018-06-20** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-06-20** Re-ref Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2018-06-20** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-06-18** Re-ref to State and Local Government. If fav, re-ref to Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2018-06-18** Withdrawn From Com
- **2018-05-31** Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2018-05-31** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2018-05-31** Regular Message Received From House
- **2018-05-31** Regular Message Sent To Senate
- **2018-05-30** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2018-05-30** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2018-05-30** Added to Calendar
- **2018-05-30** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2018-05-30** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-05-17** Ref To Com On State and Local Government II `referral-committee`
- **2018-05-17** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2018-05-16** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4694ac2e-3846-477a-a5d0-2cfa4bde6bd0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).