---
type: "Bill"
title: "Abolish Coroner in Various Counties."
description: "Abolish Coroner in Various Counties."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 1157"
citation: "North Carolina HB 1157 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CORONERS", "COUNTIES", "LOCAL", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "PUBLIC OFFICIALS", "RATIFIED", "TITLE CHANGE", "YADKIN COUNTY", "BLADEN COUNTY", "AVERY COUNTY", "MONTGOMERY COUNTY", "HOKE COUNTY", "CHAPTERED"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 8
action_count: 35
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-05-19"
last_action: "2020-06-17"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/83913c72-7109-4d5c-b260-3cbee5a02a89"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2019&BillID=H1157&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "6c6275df39b59b245b70575ce257634efe4cf62f70b8f666e685bbc402d1bd6a"
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 1157 (2019) — Abolish Coroner in Various Counties.

## 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/2019/Bills/House/PDF/H1157v0.pdf)
2. **A1: ABK-68-V-3** (committee substitute) — [source](https://webservices.ncleg.gov/ViewBillDocument/2019/8001/0/H1157-ABK-68-V-3)
3. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2019/Bills/House/PDF/H1157v1.pdf)
4. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2019/Bills/House/PDF/H1157v2.pdf)
5. **Edition 3** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2019/Bills/House/PDF/H1157v3.pdf)
6. **Edition 4** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2019/Bills/House/PDF/H1157v4.pdf)
7. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2019/Bills/House/PDF/H1157v5.pdf)
8. **SL 2020-21** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2019/Bills/House/PDF/H1157v6.pdf)

## Votes

- Amendment 1 — **44–5** (pass) · upper
- Second Reading — **48–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Brewer — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-06-17** Ch. SL 2020-21 `became-law`
- **2020-06-17** Ratified
- **2020-06-16** Ordered Enrolled
- **2020-06-16** Concurred In S Com Sub `amendment-passage`
- **2020-06-15** Placed On Cal For 06/16/2020
- **2020-06-15** Cal Pursuant 36(b)
- **2020-06-15** Special Message Received For Concurrence in S Com Sub
- **2020-06-15** Special Message Sent To House
- **2020-06-15** Engrossed
- **2020-06-15** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2020-06-15** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2020-06-15** Amend Adopted A1 `amendment-passage`
- **2020-06-11** Placed On Cal For 06/15/2020
- **2020-06-11** Withdrawn From Cal
- **2020-06-04** Placed On Cal For 06/11/2020
- **2020-06-04** Withdrawn From Cal
- **2020-06-03** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-06-02** Re-ref Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2020-06-02** Com Substitute Adopted
- **2020-06-02** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-06-01** Re-ref to State and Local Government. If fav, re-ref to Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2020-06-01** Withdrawn From Com
- **2020-06-01** Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2020-06-01** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2020-06-01** Regular Message Received From House
- **2020-05-28** Regular Message Sent To Senate
- **2020-05-27** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2020-05-27** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2020-05-26** Placed On Cal For 05/27/2020
- **2020-05-26** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2020-05-26** Serial Referral To Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House Stricken
- **2020-05-26** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-05-19** Ref to the Com on State and Local Government, if favorable, Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2020-05-19** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2020-05-19** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/83913c72-7109-4d5c-b260-3cbee5a02a89`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).