---
type: "Bill"
title: "Fire Safe Cigarettes."
description: "Fire Safe Cigarettes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2009"
identifier: "HB 1905"
citation: "North Carolina HB 1905 (2009)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["EMERGENCY SERVICES", "FIREFIGHTERS & FIREFIGHTING", "FISCAL NOTES", "PRESENTED", "PUBLIC", "RATIFIED", "SAFETY", "TOBACCO", "CHAPTERED", "REP. ENGLAND"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Insko"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2010-05-19"
last_action: "2010-07-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a43c8466-6e1e-4528-a01b-86afdb9dcc75"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2009&BillID=H1905&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "955eef794c812082678ed0b6f234f304436de6b2b1ed7f9583e9cc94fa990c30"
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 1905 (2009) — Fire Safe Cigarettes.

## 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/H1905v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/House/PDF/H1905v1.pdf)
3. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/House/PDF/H1905v2.pdf)
4. **SL2010-101** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/House/PDF/H1905v3.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **48–0** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **48–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Insko — primary (person)
- England — cosponsor (person)
- Glazier — cosponsor (person)
- Harrison — cosponsor (person)
- Hughes — cosponsor (person)
- Luebke — cosponsor (person)
- M. Alexander — cosponsor (person)
- Martin — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2010-07-20** Ch. SL 2010-101 `became-law`
- **2010-07-20** Signed By Gov. 7/20/2010 `executive-signature`
- **2010-07-09** Pres. To Gov. 7/9/2010 `executive-receipt`
- **2010-07-09** Ratified
- **2010-07-08** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2010-07-07** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2010-07-07** Placed On Cal For 7/7/2010
- **2010-07-07** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2010-07-06** Ref To Com On Finance `referral-committee`
- **2010-07-06** Rec From House
- **2010-07-06** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2010-07-01** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2010-06-30** Placed On Cal For 7/1/2010
- **2010-06-30** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2010-06-30** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2010-06-10** Re-ref Com On Finance `referral-committee`
- **2010-06-10** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2010-05-20** Ref to the Com on Insurance, if favorable, Finance `referral-committee`
- **2010-05-20** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2010-05-19** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a43c8466-6e1e-4528-a01b-86afdb9dcc75`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).