republic-os/legislation/us/states/nc/2023/hb-34.md

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Bill	Protect Those Who Serve and Protect Act.	Protect Those Who Serve and Protect Act.	us/states/nc	North Carolina General Assembly	2023	HB 34	North Carolina HB 34 (2023)	bill	ADULT CORRECTION DEPT. AMBULANCES ANIMALS ARMED FORCES CHAPTERED CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTIONS CRIMES EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES EMERGENCY SERVICES FIREFIGHTERS & FIREFIGHTING LAW ENFORCEMENT LAW ENFORCEMENT ANIMALS LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS NATIONAL GUARD PERSONNEL PRESENTED PUBLIC PUBLIC SAFETY DEPT. RATIFIED WEAPONS WORKING ANIMALS	enacted	Carson Smith Hastings Saine	8	34	0	2023-01-30	2023-07-07	openstates	ocd-bill/5fc307b9-db9f-4866-acd1-ea6d91dcce53	https://www.ncleg.gov/BillLookUp/2023/H34	56b6c2d5e8b8400bd838ce1a8ace2d31ada00f1e80dab9c10666518de3f756cd	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-nc

North Carolina HB 34 (2023) — Protect Those Who Serve and Protect Act.

Version chain

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

1. Filed (filed) — source
2. A1: ACE-86-V-1 (committee substitute) — source
3. Edition 1 (committee substitute) — source
4. Edition 2 (committee substitute) — source
5. Edition 3 (committee substitute) — source
6. Edition 4 (committee substitute) — source
7. Ratified (committee substitute) — source
8. SL 2023-76 (committee substitute) — source

Sponsors

• Carson Smith — primary (person)
• Hastings — primary (person)
• Saine — primary (person)
• Adams — cosponsor (person)
• Arp — cosponsor (person)
• B. Jones — cosponsor (person)
• Balkcom — cosponsor (person)
• Biggs — cosponsor (person)
• Bradford — cosponsor (person)
• Cairns — cosponsor (person)
• Chesser — cosponsor (person)
• Clampitt — cosponsor (person)
• Cleveland — cosponsor (person)
• Crutchfield — cosponsor (person)
• Davis — cosponsor (person)
• Dixon — cosponsor (person)
• Faircloth — cosponsor (person)
• Goodwin — cosponsor (person)
• Greene — cosponsor (person)
• Hardister — cosponsor (person)
• Humphrey — cosponsor (person)
• Iler — cosponsor (person)
• Johnson — cosponsor (person)
• K. Baker — cosponsor (person)
• Kidwell — cosponsor (person)
• Loftis — cosponsor (person)
• Logan — cosponsor (person)
• Lowery — cosponsor (person)
• Miller — cosponsor (person)
• Mills — cosponsor (person)
• Moss — cosponsor (person)
• N. Jackson — cosponsor (person)
• Penny — cosponsor (person)
• Pike — cosponsor (person)
• Potts — cosponsor (person)
• Pyrtle — cosponsor (person)
• Reeder — cosponsor (person)
• Riddell — cosponsor (person)
• Ross — cosponsor (person)
• Sossamon — cosponsor (person)
• Strickland — cosponsor (person)
• Tyson — cosponsor (person)
• Ward — cosponsor (person)
• Wheatley — cosponsor (person)
• White — cosponsor (person)
• Willingham — cosponsor (person)
• Winslow — cosponsor (person)
• Zenger — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-07-07 Ch. SL 2023-76 became-law
• 2023-07-07 Signed by Gov. 7/7/2023 executive-signature
• 2023-06-28 Pres. To Gov. 6/28/2023 executive-receipt
• 2023-06-28 Ratified
• 2023-06-27 Ordered Enrolled
• 2023-06-27 Concurred In S Com Sub amendment-passage
• 2023-06-27 Added to Calendar
• 2023-06-27 Cal Pursuant 36(b)
• 2023-06-26 Regular Message Received For Concurrence in S Com Sub
• 2023-06-26 Regular Message Sent To House
• 2023-06-22 Engrossed
• 2023-06-22 Passed 3rd Reading passage, reading-3
• 2023-06-22 Passed 2nd Reading reading-2
• 2023-06-22 Amend Adopted A1 amendment-passage
• 2023-06-21 Reptd Fav committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-06-14 Re-ref Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate referral-committee
• 2023-06-14 Com Substitute Adopted
• 2023-06-14 Reptd Fav Com Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-05-18 Re-ref to Judiciary. If fav, re-ref to Rules and Operations of the Senate referral-committee
• 2023-05-18 Withdrawn From Com
• 2023-02-27 Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate referral-committee
• 2023-02-27 Passed 1st Reading reading-1
• 2023-02-27 Regular Message Received From House
• 2023-02-23 Regular Message Sent To Senate
• 2023-02-22 Passed 3rd Reading passage, reading-3
• 2023-02-22 Passed 2nd Reading reading-2
• 2023-02-21 Placed On Cal For 02/22/2023
• 2023-02-21 Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
• 2023-02-21 Reptd Fav committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-02-15 Re-ref Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House referral-committee
• 2023-02-15 Reptd Fav Com Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-01-31 Ref to the Com on Judiciary 2, if favorable, Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House referral-committee
• 2023-01-31 Passed 1st Reading reading-1
• 2023-01-30 Filed introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/5fc307b9-db9f-4866-acd1-ea6d91dcce53. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).