---
type: "Bill"
title: "Bessemer City Charter Amendment."
description: "Bessemer City Charter Amendment."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 9"
citation: "North Carolina HB 9 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["APPOINTMENTS", "CHARTERS", "CITY MANAGERS", "COUNTIES", "EMERGENCY SERVICES", "LAW ENFORCEMENT", "LOCAL", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "MUNICIPALITIES", "RATIFIED", "SESSION LAWS", "GASTON COUNTY", "BESSEMER CITY"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 4
action_count: 25
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2019-01-30"
last_action: "2019-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8e0dc21b-e443-4eef-8e64-bc14c050987c"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2019&BillID=H9&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "204a12a0835acfe145a7b3480f30de7143716da914567b76ef6afe1626b2c646"
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 9 (2019) — Bessemer City Charter Amendment.

## 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/H9v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2019/Bills/House/PDF/H9v1.pdf)
3. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2019/Bills/House/PDF/H9v2.pdf)
4. **SL 2019-24** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2019/Bills/House/PDF/H9v3.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **111–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Hastings — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-06-11** Ch. SL 2019-24 `became-law`
- **2019-06-11** Ratified
- **2019-06-10** Ordered Enrolled
- **2019-06-10** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-06-10** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2019-06-05** Placed On Cal For 06/10/2019
- **2019-06-05** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-06-04** Re-ref Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2019-06-04** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-05-29** Re-ref to State and Local Government. If fav, re-ref to Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-29** Withdrawn From Com
- **2019-02-21** Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-21** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2019-02-21** Regular Message Received From House
- **2019-02-21** Regular Message Sent To Senate
- **2019-02-20** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-02-20** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2019-02-18** Placed On Cal For 02/20/2019
- **2019-02-18** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2019-02-18** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-06** Re-ref Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-06** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-01-31** Ref to the Com on State and Local Government, if favorable, Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-31** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2019-01-30** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8e0dc21b-e443-4eef-8e64-bc14c050987c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).