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type: "Bill"
title: "Future Volunteer Firefighters Act."
description: "Future Volunteer Firefighters Act."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2009"
identifier: "HB 557"
citation: "North Carolina HB 557 (2009)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES", "COMMUNITY COLLEGES", "EDUCATION", "EMERGENCY SERVICES", "EMPLOYMENT", "FIREFIGHTERS & FIREFIGHTING", "FISCAL NOTES", "HIGHER EDUCATION", "MINORS", "PERSONNEL", "PUBLIC", "RATIFIED", "VOLUNTEERS", "CHAPTERED", "REP. FOLWELL", "REP. PIERCE", "REP. GUICE", "REP. STEVENS"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Folwell", "Guice", "Pierce"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2009-03-11"
last_action: "2009-05-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/19b747af-3c66-4c0a-8cfd-bc1bc1ae3018"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2009&BillID=H557&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "bae5b371adb0ab7189873bee5523fab195ace89d0fa3c144312a2fd95968cd06"
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 557 (2009) — Future Volunteer Firefighters Act.
## 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/H557v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/House/PDF/H557v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/House/PDF/H557v2.pdf)
4. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/House/PDF/H557v3.pdf)
5. **SL2009-21** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/House/PDF/H557v4.pdf)
## Votes
- Second Reading — **490** (pass) · upper
- Second Reading — **1140** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Folwell — primary (person)
- Guice — primary (person)
- Pierce — primary (person)
- Brown — cosponsor (person)
- Faison — cosponsor (person)
- Harrison — cosponsor (person)
- Holloway — cosponsor (person)
- Lewis — cosponsor (person)
- Moore — cosponsor (person)
- Stevens — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2009-05-04** Ch. SL 2009-21 `became-law`
- **2009-05-04** Signed By Gov. 5/4/2009 `executive-signature`
- **2009-04-27** Pres. To Gov. 4/24/2009 `executive-receipt`
- **2009-04-23** Ratified
- **2009-04-22** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2009-04-21** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2009-04-08** Ref To Com On State and Local Government `referral-committee`
- **2009-04-08** Rec From House
- **2009-04-07** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2009-04-06** Placed On Cal For 4/7/2009
- **2009-04-06** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2009-04-06** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2009-03-26** Re-ref Com On Judiciary II `referral-committee`
- **2009-03-26** serial referral to Jud. I stricken
- **2009-03-26** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2009-03-12** Ref to the Com on Ways and Means/Broadband Connectivity, if favorable, Judiciary I `referral-committee`
- **2009-03-12** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2009-03-11** Filed `introduction`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/19b747af-3c66-4c0a-8cfd-bc1bc1ae3018`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).