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type: "Bill"
title: "NCNG Tuition Assistance Benefit Amendment."
description: "NCNG Tuition Assistance Benefit Amendment."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2015"
identifier: "HB 709"
citation: "North Carolina HB 709 (2015)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ARMED FORCES", "AUTHORITIES", "EDUCATION", "EDUCATION ASSISTANCE AUTHORITY", "HIGHER EDUCATION", "PERSONNEL", "PRESENTED", "PUBLIC", "RATIFIED", "TUITION", "CHAPTERED", "NATIONAL GUARD"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 4
action_count: 28
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2015-04-14"
last_action: "2015-10-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7ad8998d-11e8-4642-b0a6-2a26ee7a9f21"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2015&BillID=H709&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "565d7e880f0e94a31f8f6b64f520ef686e472512430ce72523695efc014d8844"
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 709 (2015) — NCNG Tuition Assistance Benefit Amendment.
## 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/2015/Bills/House/PDF/H709v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2015/Bills/House/PDF/H709v1.pdf)
3. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2015/Bills/House/PDF/H709v2.pdf)
4. **SL2015-298** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2015/Bills/House/PDF/H709v3.pdf)
## Votes
- Second Reading — **1170** (pass) · lower
- Second Reading — **470** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Adcock — cosponsor (person)
- Ager — cosponsor (person)
- B. Richardson — cosponsor (person)
- B. Turner — cosponsor (person)
- Baskerville — cosponsor (person)
- Brockman — cosponsor (person)
- Carney — cosponsor (person)
- Cunningham — cosponsor (person)
- Earle — cosponsor (person)
- Farmer-Butterfield — cosponsor (person)
- Floyd — cosponsor (person)
- G. Graham — cosponsor (person)
- G. Martin — cosponsor (person)
- Gill — cosponsor (person)
- Glazier — cosponsor (person)
- Hamilton — cosponsor (person)
- Hanes — cosponsor (person)
- Holley — cosponsor (person)
- L. Hall — cosponsor (person)
- Meyer — cosponsor (person)
- Pendleton — cosponsor (person)
- Pierce — cosponsor (person)
- Queen — cosponsor (person)
- R. Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- R. Moore — cosponsor (person)
- Reives — cosponsor (person)
- Salmon — cosponsor (person)
- Steinburg — cosponsor (person)
- Waddell — cosponsor (person)
- Whitmire — cosponsor (person)
- Wray — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2015-10-30** Ch. SL 2015-298 `became-law`
- **2015-10-30** Signed by Gov. 10/30/2015 `executive-signature`
- **2015-09-22** Pres. To Gov. 9/22/2015 `executive-receipt`
- **2015-09-21** Ratified
- **2015-09-17** Ordered Enrolled
- **2015-09-17** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2015-09-17** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2015-09-16** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2015-09-15** Re-ref Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2015-09-15** Withdrawn From Com
- **2015-07-22** Re-ref Com On Appropriations/Base Budget `referral-committee`
- **2015-07-22** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2015-07-15** Re-ref to Education/Higher Education. If fav, re-ref to Appropriations/Base Budget `referral-committee`
- **2015-07-15** Withdrawn From Com
- **2015-04-28** Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2015-04-28** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2015-04-28** Regular Message Received From House
- **2015-04-28** Regular Message Sent To Senate
- **2015-04-27** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2015-04-27** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2015-04-27** Added to Calendar
- **2015-04-27** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2015-04-27** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2015-04-21** Re-ref Com On Education - Universities `referral-committee`
- **2015-04-21** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2015-04-15** Ref to the Com on Homeland Security, Military, and Veterans Affairs, if favorable, Education - Universities `referral-committee`
- **2015-04-15** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2015-04-14** Filed `introduction`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7ad8998d-11e8-4642-b0a6-2a26ee7a9f21`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).