---
type: "Bill"
title: "Four-Year Terms/Town of Bethel."
description: "Four-Year Terms/Town of Bethel."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 477"
citation: "North Carolina HB 477 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CHARTERS", "CITY COUNCILS", "CORONERS", "COUNTIES", "LOCAL", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "MAYORS", "MUNICIPALITIES", "PUBLIC OFFICIALS", "RATIFIED", "SESSION LAWS", "TERM LENGTHS & LIMITS", "BLADEN COUNTY", "PITT COUNTY", "CHAPTERED", "BETHEL"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 7
action_count: 35
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2019-03-27"
last_action: "2020-06-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/67ffd8f6-5ec6-4aca-8499-37e8d6d2ae99"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2019&BillID=H477&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "00375c7501ea7ecb031f31a9f9ef7fcb7d86e9c0a2f5f7fbf669ffc2e9e0b843"
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 477 (2019) — Four-Year Terms/Town of Bethel.

## 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/H477v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2019/Bills/House/PDF/H477v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2019/Bills/House/PDF/H477v2.pdf)
4. **Edition 3** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2019/Bills/House/PDF/H477v3.pdf)
5. **Edition 4** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2019/Bills/House/PDF/H477v4.pdf)
6. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2019/Bills/House/PDF/H477v5.pdf)
7. **SL 2020-38** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2019/Bills/House/PDF/H477v6.pdf)

## Votes

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

## Sponsors

- Humphrey — cosponsor (person)
- K. Smith — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-06-25** Ch. SL 2020-38 `became-law`
- **2020-06-25** Ratified
- **2020-06-25** Ordered Enrolled
- **2020-06-25** Concurred In S Com Sub `amendment-passage`
- **2020-06-24** Placed On Cal For 06/25/2020
- **2020-06-24** Cal Pursuant 36(b)
- **2020-06-24** Special Message Received For Concurrence in S Com Sub
- **2020-06-24** Special Message Sent To House
- **2020-06-24** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2020-06-24** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2020-06-24** Placed on Today's Calendar
- **2020-06-24** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-06-24** Re-ref Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2020-06-24** Com Substitute Adopted
- **2020-06-24** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-06-15** Re-ref to Redistricting and Elections. If fav, re-ref to Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2020-06-15** Withdrawn From Com
- **2019-06-26** Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2019-06-26** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2019-06-26** Special Message Received From House
- **2019-06-26** Special Message Sent To Senate
- **2019-06-26** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-06-26** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2019-06-24** Placed On Cal For 06/26/2019
- **2019-06-24** Withdrawn From Cal
- **2019-06-24** Placed On Cal For 06/25/2019
- **2019-06-24** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2019-06-24** Reptd Fav Com Sub 2 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-06-19** Re-ref Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2019-06-19** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-10** Re-ref Com On Elections and Ethics Law `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-10** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-28** Ref to the Com on State and Local Government, if favorable, Elections and Ethics Law, if favorable, Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-28** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2019-03-27** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/67ffd8f6-5ec6-4aca-8499-37e8d6d2ae99`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).