---
type: "Bill"
title: "Farm Machinery Franchise Law."
description: "Farm Machinery Franchise Law."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2001"
identifier: "HB 1318"
citation: "North Carolina HB 1318 (2001)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["AGRICULTURE", "COMMERCE", "CONTRACTS", "PRESENTED", "PUBLIC", "RATIFIED", "TITLE CHANGE", "REP. COLE", "REP. CULPEPPER", "REP. WARWICK", "CHAPTERED"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Cole", "Culpepper", "Warwick"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2001-04-11"
last_action: "2001-08-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b57a0f98-f454-4679-a7a7-ca1202c408aa"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2001&BillID=H1318&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "be653474a6fc1770450ab7853d8829d693f598391890a23b860357e4852602f4"
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 1318 (2001) — Farm Machinery Franchise Law.

## Version chain

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

1. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2001/Bills/House/PDF/H1318v1.pdf)
2. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2001/Bills/House/PDF/H1318v2.pdf)
3. **Edition 3** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2001/Bills/House/PDF/H1318v3.pdf)
4. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2001/Bills/House/PDF/H1318v4.pdf)
5. **SL 2001-343** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2001/Bills/House/PDF/H1318v5.pdf)

## Votes

- M11 Concur — **105–0** (pass) · lower
- Second Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Cole — primary (person)
- Culpepper — primary (person)
- Warwick — primary (person)
- Brubaker — cosponsor (person)
- Cox — cosponsor (person)
- Mitchell — cosponsor (person)
- Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Thompson — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2001-08-03** Ch. SL 2001-343 `became-law`
- **2001-08-03** Signed By Gov. 8/3/2001 `executive-signature`
- **2001-07-25** Pres. To Gov. 7/25/2001 `executive-receipt`
- **2001-07-24** Ratified
- **2001-07-23** Concurred In S/Com Sub `amendment-passage`
- **2001-07-19** Placed On Cal For 7/23/2001
- **2001-07-17** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2001-07-17** Rec To Concur S Com Sub
- **2001-07-12** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2001-07-11** Com Substitute Adopted
- **2001-07-11** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2001-04-25** Ref To Com On Commerce `referral-committee`
- **2001-04-25** Rec From House
- **2001-04-25** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2001-04-24** Placed On Cal For 4/25/2001
- **2001-04-24** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2001-04-24** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2001-04-12** Ref To Com On Agriculture `referral-committee`
- **2001-04-11** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b57a0f98-f454-4679-a7a7-ca1202c408aa`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).