republic-os/legislation/us/states/nc/2003/hb-483.md

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type	title	description	jurisdiction	legislature	session	identifier	citation	classification	subjects	status	primary_sponsors	version_count	action_count	vote_count	first_action	last_action	source	source_identifier	source_url	source_hash	vintage	source_snapshot	retrieved_at	confidence	tags
Bill	Change Offensive Place-Names.	Change Offensive Place-Names.	us/states/nc	North Carolina General Assembly	2003	HB 483	North Carolina HB 483 (2003)	bill	COUNCIL OF STATE COUNTIES COUNTY COMMISSIONERS CULTURAL RESOURCES CULTURAL RESOURCES DEPT. DENR ENVIRONMENT GEOGRAPHY LOCAL GOVERNMENT MINORITIES PUBLIC RATIFIED SECRETARY OF STATE REP. ADAMS UNION COUNTY CLAY COUNTY HAYWOOD COUNTY JACKSON COUNTY MADISON COUNTY CURRITUCK COUNTY CHAPTERED REP. JONES	enacted	Adams	6	22	2	2003-03-12	2003-06-23	openstates	ocd-bill/ca9ffc38-3c13-4117-b9db-545f4ada8263	http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2003&BillID=H483&votesToView=all	07289e243488937099411f2824dca428afd99c47d7a1fce01eb00ef09dd79133	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-nc

North Carolina HB 483 (2003) — Change Offensive Place-Names.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. Filed (filed) — source
2. Edition 1 (committee substitute) — source
3. Edition 2 (committee substitute) — source
4. Edition 3 (committee substitute) — source
5. Ratified (committee substitute) — source
6. SL 2003-211 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Second Reading — 47–0 (pass) · upper
• M11 Concur — 116–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Adams — primary (person)
• Jeffus — cosponsor (person)
• Jones — cosponsor (person)
• Luebke — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2003-06-19 Ch. SL 2003-211 became-law
• 2003-06-23 Signed By Gov. 6/19/2003 executive-signature
• 2003-06-16 Pres. To Gov. 6/12/2003 executive-receipt
• 2003-06-11 Ratified
• 2003-06-10 Concurred In S/Com Sub amendment-passage
• 2003-06-09 Placed On Cal For 6/10/2003
• 2003-06-05 Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
• 2003-06-05 Rec To Concur S Com Sub
• 2003-06-03 Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading passage, reading-2, reading-3
• 2003-05-29 Placed On Cal For 6/3/2003
• 2003-05-29 Com Substitute Adopted
• 2003-05-29 Reptd Fav Com Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2003-05-05 Ref To Com On State Government, Local Government, and Veterans' Affairs referral-committee
• 2003-05-01 Held by Senate
• 2003-05-01 Rec From House
• 2003-04-30 Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading passage, reading-2, reading-3
• 2003-04-30 Amend Adopted #1 amendment-passage
• 2003-04-29 Placed On Cal For 4/30/2003
• 2003-04-29 Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
• 2003-04-29 Reptd Fav As Amended committee-passage-favorable
• 2003-03-13 Ref To Com On State Government referral-committee
• 2003-03-12 Filed introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/ca9ffc38-3c13-4117-b9db-545f4ada8263. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).