---
type: "Bill"
title: "Adopt Wounded Heroes Day."
description: "Adopt Wounded Heroes Day."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 138"
citation: "North Carolina HB 138 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ARMED FORCES", "CALENDAR", "CHAPTERED", "DISABLED PERSONS", "PERSONNEL", "PRESENTED", "PUBLIC", "RATIFIED", "VETERANS"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 4
action_count: 22
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-02-23"
last_action: "2021-04-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/78bffd7e-c4c7-431f-b2aa-97aab68a3fe0"
source_url: "https://www.ncleg.gov/BillLookUp/2021/H138"
source_hash: "77b17a90acf5d612b8541007b25068a7682852d41d850183d8637291dad9de52"
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 138 (2021) — Adopt Wounded Heroes Day.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Filed** (filed) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2021/Bills/House/PDF/H138v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2021/Bills/House/PDF/H138v1.pdf)
3. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2021/Bills/House/PDF/H138v2.pdf)
4. **SL 2021-12** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2021/Bills/House/PDF/H138v3.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **118–0** (pass) · lower
- Second Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- A. Baker — cosponsor (person)
- A. Jones — cosponsor (person)
- Adcock — cosponsor (person)
- Ager — cosponsor (person)
- Arp — cosponsor (person)
- Autry — cosponsor (person)
- Ball — cosponsor (person)
- Bradford — cosponsor (person)
- Brockman — cosponsor (person)
- Brown — cosponsor (person)
- Carney — cosponsor (person)
- Carter — cosponsor (person)
- Clampitt — cosponsor (person)
- Clemmons — cosponsor (person)
- Cleveland — cosponsor (person)
- Dahle — cosponsor (person)
- Farkas — cosponsor (person)
- Fisher — cosponsor (person)
- Gill — cosponsor (person)
- Goodwin — cosponsor (person)
- Graham — cosponsor (person)
- Greene — cosponsor (person)
- Hanig — cosponsor (person)
- Harris — cosponsor (person)
- Harrison — cosponsor (person)
- Hastings — cosponsor (person)
- Hawkins — cosponsor (person)
- Humphrey — cosponsor (person)
- Hurley — cosponsor (person)
- Iler — cosponsor (person)
- Kidwell — cosponsor (person)
- Lambeth — cosponsor (person)
- Lofton — cosponsor (person)
- Logan — cosponsor (person)
- Lucas — cosponsor (person)
- McElraft — cosponsor (person)
- McNeely — cosponsor (person)
- McNeill — cosponsor (person)
- Miller — cosponsor (person)
- Moffitt — cosponsor (person)
- Morey — cosponsor (person)
- Moss — cosponsor (person)
- Pickett — cosponsor (person)
- Pierce — cosponsor (person)
- Pittman — cosponsor (person)
- Pless — cosponsor (person)
- Potts — cosponsor (person)
- Riddell — cosponsor (person)
- Sasser — cosponsor (person)
- Setzer — cosponsor (person)
- Shepard — cosponsor (person)
- Strickland — cosponsor (person)
- Szoka — cosponsor (person)
- Wheatley — cosponsor (person)
- Willingham — cosponsor (person)
- Willis — cosponsor (person)
- Winslow — cosponsor (person)
- Wray — cosponsor (person)
- Zenger — cosponsor (person)
- von Haefen — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-04-21** Ch. SL 2021-12 `became-law`
- **2021-04-21** Signed by Gov. 4/21/2021 `executive-signature`
- **2021-04-15** Pres. To Gov. 4/15/2021 `executive-receipt`
- **2021-04-15** Ratified
- **2021-04-15** Ordered Enrolled
- **2021-04-15** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-15** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2021-04-14** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-17** Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-17** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2021-03-17** Special Message Received From House
- **2021-03-17** Special Message Sent To Senate
- **2021-03-17** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-17** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2021-03-16** Placed On Cal For 03/17/2021
- **2021-03-16** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2021-03-16** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-10** Re-ref Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-10** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-02-24** Ref to the Com on State Government, if favorable, Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-24** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2021-02-23** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/78bffd7e-c4c7-431f-b2aa-97aab68a3fe0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).