---
type: "Bill"
title: "Furniture Market Improvement Act."
description: "Furniture Market Improvement Act."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2001"
identifier: "HB 163"
citation: "North Carolina HB 163 (2001)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ADVERTISING", "COMMERCE", "FISCAL NOTES", "FURNITURE", "HOTELS & MOTELS", "LOCAL", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "RATIFIED", "TAXATION", "TAXES", "OCCUPANCY", "REP. JARRELL", "GUILFORD COUNTY", "HIGH POINT", "CHAPTERED"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 4
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2001-02-15"
last_action: "2001-04-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/280f2c2a-58e9-4d01-9fb4-c2adba207efc"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2001&BillID=H163&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "b041416c70b2ab426c4239c1c030220741b06f935fad2994555d5b25c76c44e4"
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 163 (2001) — Furniture Market Improvement Act.

## 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/H163v1.pdf)
2. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2001/Bills/House/PDF/H163v2.pdf)
3. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2001/Bills/House/PDF/H163v3.pdf)
4. **SL 2001-11** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2001/Bills/House/PDF/H163v4.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **46–1** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Adams — cosponsor (person)
- Alexander — cosponsor (person)
- Blust — cosponsor (person)
- Bowie — cosponsor (person)
- Boyd-McIntyre — cosponsor (person)
- Culp — cosponsor (person)
- Decker — cosponsor (person)
- Jarrell — cosponsor (person)
- Jeffus — cosponsor (person)
- Sexton — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2001-04-03** Ch. SL 2001-11 `became-law`
- **2001-04-03** Ratified
- **2001-04-03** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2001-04-02** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2001-03-29** Placed On Cal For 4/2/2001
- **2001-03-29** Withdrawn From Cal
- **2001-03-28** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2001-03-20** Ref To Com On Finance `referral-committee`
- **2001-03-20** Rec From House
- **2001-03-19** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2001-03-15** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2001-03-14** Placed On Cal For 3/15/2001
- **2001-03-13** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2001-03-13** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2001-03-05** Re-ref Com On Finance `referral-committee`
- **2001-03-05** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2001-02-19** Ref To Com On Local Government II `referral-committee`
- **2001-02-15** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/280f2c2a-58e9-4d01-9fb4-c2adba207efc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).