---
type: "Bill"
title: "Durham City Investments."
description: "Durham City Investments."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2001"
identifier: "HB 1609"
citation: "North Carolina HB 1609 (2001)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CITY COUNCILS", "INVESTMENTS", "LOCAL", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "MUNICIPALITIES", "RATIFIED", "REP. MILLER", "DURHAM COUNTY", "DURHAM", "CHAPTERED"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 4
action_count: 14
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2002-06-10"
last_action: "2002-07-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/56048a89-3836-4dcb-bf2a-92d0ed3f8320"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2001&BillID=H1609&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "ba15854cb1a7dc60b32961a2d3b2b0ebfa4873c7f22128d5518268f33dd7dfcf"
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 1609 (2001) — Durham City Investments.

## 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/H1609v1.pdf)
2. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2001/Bills/House/PDF/H1609v2.pdf)
3. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2001/Bills/House/PDF/H1609v3.pdf)
4. **SL 2002-31** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2001/Bills/House/PDF/H1609v4.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Luebke — cosponsor (person)
- Miller — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2002-07-22** Ch. SL 2002-31 `became-law`
- **2002-07-22** Ratified
- **2002-07-18** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2002-07-17** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2002-07-08** Ref To Com On State and Local Government `referral-committee`
- **2002-07-08** Rec From House
- **2002-07-03** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2002-07-02** Placed On Cal For 7/3/2002
- **2002-06-26** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2002-06-26** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2002-06-18** Re-ref Com On Finance `referral-committee`
- **2002-06-18** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2002-06-11** Ref To Com On Local Government I `referral-committee`
- **2002-06-10** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/56048a89-3836-4dcb-bf2a-92d0ed3f8320`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).