---
type: "Bill"
title: "Board of Trustees/Isothermal Community College."
description: "Board of Trustees/Isothermal Community College."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 38"
citation: "North Carolina HB 38 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["BOARDS", "CHAPTERED", "COMMUNITY COLLEGE BOARDS", "COMMUNITY COLLEGES", "COUNTIES", "COUNTY COMMISSIONERS", "LOCAL", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "MEMBERSHIP", "PUBLIC OFFICIALS", "RATIFIED", "RUTHERFORD COUNTY", "SESSION LAWS"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 4
action_count: 24
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2021-02-01"
last_action: "2021-06-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ee86f1e3-ca90-406b-beb9-0a5d81aa0da1"
source_url: "https://www.ncleg.gov/BillLookUp/2021/H38"
source_hash: "262e7bb5e7c023dfdfece003756655a96b392d2c62b98d85e538af648d9150c8"
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 38 (2021) — Board of Trustees/Isothermal Community College.

## 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/H38v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2021/Bills/House/PDF/H38v1.pdf)
3. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2021/Bills/House/PDF/H38v2.pdf)
4. **SL 2021-52** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2021/Bills/House/PDF/H38v3.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Rogers — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-06-23** Ch. SL 2021-52 `became-law`
- **2021-06-23** Ratified
- **2021-06-22** Ordered Enrolled
- **2021-06-22** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-06-22** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2021-06-21** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-06-16** Re-ref Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2021-06-16** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-06-07** Re-ref to Education/Higher Education. If fav, re-ref to Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2021-06-07** Withdrawn From Com
- **2021-02-17** Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-17** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2021-02-17** Special Message Received From House
- **2021-02-17** Special Message Sent To Senate
- **2021-02-17** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-02-17** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2021-02-16** Placed On Cal For 02/17/2021
- **2021-02-16** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2021-02-16** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-02-11** Re-ref Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-11** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-02-02** Ref to the Com on Education - Community Colleges, if favorable, Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-02** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2021-02-01** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ee86f1e3-ca90-406b-beb9-0a5d81aa0da1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).