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type: "Bill"
title: "Honor Retiring Firefighters."
description: "Honor Retiring Firefighters."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2003"
identifier: "HB 55"
citation: "North Carolina HB 55 (2003)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["EMERGENCY SERVICES", "FIREFIGHTING", "FISCAL NOTES", "PERSONNEL", "PRESENTED", "PUBLIC", "RATIFIED", "RETIREMENT", "TITLE CHANGE", "CHAPTERED", "REP. RAY"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 5
action_count: 17
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2003-02-20"
last_action: "2003-06-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6a35959d-d1c6-493e-9054-8daf123149ce"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2003&BillID=H55&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "f368c0a53d1ddb0435836c3f8e14fd0bea3ddbeb6cde8beacf08c321352731e9"
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 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](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/House/PDF/H55v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/House/PDF/H55v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/House/PDF/H55v2.pdf)
4. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/House/PDF/H55v3.pdf)
5. **SL 2003-145** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/House/PDF/H55v4.pdf)
## Votes
- Second Reading — **490** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **490** (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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6a35959d-d1c6-493e-9054-8daf123149ce`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).