---
type: "Bill"
title: "Increase Small Estate Amount."
description: "Increase Small Estate Amount."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2009"
identifier: "HB 203"
citation: "North Carolina HB 203 (2009)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ESTATES", "FISCAL NOTES", "PRESENTED", "PUBLIC", "RATIFIED", "CHAPTERED", "REP. RANDLEMAN"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hurley", "Randleman", "Spear"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 17
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2009-02-17"
last_action: "2009-06-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/07626782-ff6a-456d-bc0a-d539c93327c9"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2009&BillID=H203&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "addfb15fea9f31b11ce5ed94675d79beea66e0d96b9942b5e47f1abfc4b770c0"
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 203 (2009) — Increase Small Estate Amount.

## 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/2009/Bills/House/PDF/H203v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/House/PDF/H203v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/House/PDF/H203v2.pdf)
4. **Edition 3** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/House/PDF/H203v3.pdf)
5. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/House/PDF/H203v4.pdf)
6. **SL2009-175** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/House/PDF/H203v5.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper
- Second Reading — **111–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Hurley — primary (person)
- Randleman — primary (person)
- Spear — primary (person)
- Blackwell — cosponsor (person)
- Boles — cosponsor (person)
- Burr — cosponsor (person)
- Daughtry — cosponsor (person)
- Dollar — cosponsor (person)
- Faison — cosponsor (person)
- Folwell — cosponsor (person)
- Frye — cosponsor (person)
- Gillespie — cosponsor (person)
- Howard — cosponsor (person)
- Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- Justus — cosponsor (person)
- K. Alexander — cosponsor (person)
- Lucas — cosponsor (person)
- McCormick — cosponsor (person)
- McLawhorn — cosponsor (person)
- Mills — cosponsor (person)
- Rapp — cosponsor (person)
- Sager — cosponsor (person)
- Setzer — cosponsor (person)
- Stam — cosponsor (person)
- Stevens — cosponsor (person)
- Wiley — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2009-06-26** Ch. SL 2009-175 `became-law`
- **2009-06-26** Signed By Gov. 6/26/2009 `executive-signature`
- **2009-06-19** Pres. To Gov. 6/19/2009 `executive-receipt`
- **2009-06-18** Ratified
- **2009-06-18** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2009-06-17** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2009-04-13** Ref To Com On Finance `referral-committee`
- **2009-04-13** Rec From House
- **2009-04-09** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2009-04-08** Placed On Cal For 4/9/2009
- **2009-04-08** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2009-04-08** Reptd Fav Com Sub 2 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2009-02-25** Re-ref Com On Finance `referral-committee`
- **2009-02-25** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2009-02-18** Ref to the Com on Judiciary III, if favorable, Finance `referral-committee`
- **2009-02-18** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2009-02-17** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/07626782-ff6a-456d-bc0a-d539c93327c9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).