---
type: "Bill"
title: "Increase Penalty-Transit Operator Assault."
description: "Increase Penalty-Transit Operator Assault."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2003"
identifier: "HB 1373"
citation: "North Carolina HB 1373 (2003)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ASSAULT", "BUSES", "CRIMES", "FINES & PENALTIES", "FISCAL NOTES", "PRESENTED", "PUBLIC", "PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION", "RATIFIED", "TRANSPORTATION", "REP. SAUNDERS", "CHAPTERED"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 5
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2004-05-10"
last_action: "2004-06-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8a995242-02f0-4e30-9fb4-c111a4c91ecb"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2003&BillID=H1373&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "dc0dd7aef7540dd9c486f64130f36d7069d2fd9117c5397a4bb222f928e9360c"
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 1373 (2003) — Increase Penalty-Transit Operator Assault.

## 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/2003/Bills/House/PDF/H1373v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/House/PDF/H1373v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/House/PDF/H1373v2.pdf)
4. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/House/PDF/H1373v3.pdf)
5. **SL 2004-26** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/House/PDF/H1373v4.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper
- Second Reading — **107–7** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Crawford — cosponsor (person)
- Saunders — cosponsor (person)
- Stiller — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2004-06-25** Ch. SL 2004-26 `became-law`
- **2004-06-28** Signed By Gov. 6/25/2004 `executive-signature`
- **2004-06-21** Pres. To Gov. 6/18/2004 `executive-receipt`
- **2004-06-17** Ratified
- **2004-06-16** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2004-06-15** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2004-06-01** Ref To Com On Judiciary II `referral-committee`
- **2004-06-01** Rec From House
- **2004-05-27** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2004-05-26** Postponed To 5/27/2004
- **2004-05-25** Placed On Cal For 5/26/2004
- **2004-05-25** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2004-05-25** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2004-05-13** Re-ref Com On Judiciary III `referral-committee`
- **2004-05-11** Ref To Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2004-05-10** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8a995242-02f0-4e30-9fb4-c111a4c91ecb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).