---
type: "Bill"
title: "Spring Lake Charter Amendment."
description: "Spring Lake Charter Amendment."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 248"
citation: "North Carolina HB 248 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CHAPTERED", "CHARTERS", "CITY MANAGERS", "COUNTIES", "CUMBERLAND COUNTY", "LOCAL", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "MUNICIPALITIES", "PERSONNEL", "PUBLIC OFFICIALS", "RATIFIED", "SESSION LAWS", "SPRING LAKE (TOWN)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Lucas", "Richardson", "Szoka"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 32
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-03-09"
last_action: "2021-09-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c9b25570-4583-4ce3-8890-c34d0df5dd4d"
source_url: "https://www.ncleg.gov/BillLookUp/2021/H248"
source_hash: "0ca8a5093aa3dfd44967e1f371b650969ec67ae22cc4eb0980c96e8bf4aab8c7"
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 248 (2021) — Spring Lake Charter Amendment.

## 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/H248v0.pdf)
2. **A1: Scanned Document** (committee substitute) — [source](https://webservices.ncleg.gov/ViewBillDocument/2021/52990/0/H248-A-NBC-9160)
3. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2021/Bills/House/PDF/H248v1.pdf)
4. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2021/Bills/House/PDF/H248v2.pdf)
5. **Edition 3** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2021/Bills/House/PDF/H248v3.pdf)
6. **Edition 4** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2021/Bills/House/PDF/H248v4.pdf)
7. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2021/Bills/House/PDF/H248v5.pdf)
8. **SL 2021-142** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2021/Bills/House/PDF/H248v6.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **44–0** (pass) · upper
- Amendment 1 — **44–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Lucas — primary (person)
- Richardson — primary (person)
- Szoka — primary (person)
- Autry — cosponsor (person)
- Brown — cosponsor (person)
- Gailliard — cosponsor (person)
- R. Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Wheatley — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-09-09** Ch. SL 2021-142 `became-law`
- **2021-09-09** Ratified
- **2021-09-08** Ordered Enrolled
- **2021-09-08** Concurred In S Com Sub `amendment-passage`
- **2021-09-03** Placed On Cal For 09/08/2021
- **2021-09-03** Cal Pursuant 36(b)
- **2021-09-03** Special Message Received For Concurrence in S Com Sub
- **2021-09-02** Special Message Sent To House
- **2021-09-01** Engrossed
- **2021-09-01** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-09-01** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2021-09-01** Amend Adopted A1 `amendment-passage`
- **2021-08-31** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-08-25** Re-ref Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2021-08-25** Com Substitute Adopted
- **2021-08-25** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-08-19** Re-ref to State and Local Government. If fav, re-ref to Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2021-08-19** Withdrawn From Com
- **2021-05-12** Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2021-05-12** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2021-05-12** Regular Message Received From House
- **2021-05-12** Regular Message Sent To Senate
- **2021-05-11** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-05-11** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2021-05-11** Added to Calendar
- **2021-05-11** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2021-05-11** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-27** Re-ref Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-27** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-10** Ref to the Com on Local Government, if favorable, Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-10** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2021-03-09** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c9b25570-4583-4ce3-8890-c34d0df5dd4d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).