republic-os/legislation/us/states/nc/2003/hb-55.md

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

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	Honor Retiring Firefighters.	Honor Retiring Firefighters.	us/states/nc	North Carolina General Assembly	2003	HB 55	North Carolina HB 55 (2003)	bill	EMERGENCY SERVICES FIREFIGHTING FISCAL NOTES PERSONNEL PRESENTED PUBLIC RATIFIED RETIREMENT TITLE CHANGE CHAPTERED REP. RAY	enacted		5	17	2	2003-02-20	2003-06-09	openstates	ocd-bill/6a35959d-d1c6-493e-9054-8daf123149ce	http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2003&BillID=H55&votesToView=all	f368c0a53d1ddb0435836c3f8e14fd0bea3ddbeb6cde8beacf08c321352731e9	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-nc

North Carolina HB 55 (2003) — Honor Retiring Firefighters.

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. Ratified (committee substitute) — source
5. SL 2003-145 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Second Reading — 49–0 (pass) · upper
• Third Reading — 49–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Culp — cosponsor (person)
• Daughtry — cosponsor (person)
• Dockham — cosponsor (person)
• G. Wilson — cosponsor (person)
• Gillespie — cosponsor (person)
• Gorman — cosponsor (person)
• Hilton — cosponsor (person)
• Howard — cosponsor (person)
• K. Williams — cosponsor (person)
• Kiser — cosponsor (person)
• Lewis — cosponsor (person)
• McCombs — cosponsor (person)
• Mitchell — cosponsor (person)
• Ray — cosponsor (person)
• Rhodes — cosponsor (person)
• Setzer — cosponsor (person)
• Walend — cosponsor (person)
• Walker — cosponsor (person)
• Warner — cosponsor (person)
• West — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2003-06-09 Ch. SL 2003-145 became-law
• 2003-06-09 Signed By Gov. 6/4/2003 executive-signature
• 2003-06-02 Pres. To Gov. 5/30/2003 executive-receipt
• 2003-05-29 Ratified
• 2003-05-28 Passed 3rd Reading passage, reading-3
• 2003-05-27 Passed 2nd Reading reading-2
• 2003-05-21 Placed On Cal For 5/27/2003
• 2003-05-21 Reptd Fav committee-passage-favorable
• 2003-03-26 Ref To Com On State Government, Local Government, and Veterans' Affairs referral-committee
• 2003-03-26 Rec From House
• 2003-03-25 Passed 3rd Reading passage, reading-3
• 2003-03-25 Passed 2nd Reading reading-2
• 2003-03-24 Placed On Cal For 3/25/2003
• 2003-03-20 Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
• 2003-03-20 Reptd Fav Com Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2003-02-24 Ref To Com On Ways and Means referral-committee
• 2003-02-20 Filed introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/6a35959d-d1c6-493e-9054-8daf123149ce. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).