---
type: "Bill"
title: "Injury to Commodities or Production Systems."
description: "Injury to Commodities or Production Systems."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2001"
identifier: "HB 218"
citation: "North Carolina HB 218 (2001)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["AGRICULTURE", "CIVIL PROCEDURE", "COURTS", "CRIMES", "FINES & PENALTIES", "PRESENTED", "PRODUCE", "PUBLIC", "RATIFIED", "TITLE CHANGE", "REP. HILL", "CHAPTERED"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 6
action_count: 22
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2001-02-22"
last_action: "2001-07-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/49bf78b1-1af3-4ab1-b248-842cde0e2a86"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2001&BillID=H218&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "9e983bae3ef4aeb627cd06f430a49e3be4d5e55958a901b006a8a127392e57b0"
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 218 (2001) — Injury to Commodities or Production Systems.

## 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/H218v1.pdf)
2. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2001/Bills/House/PDF/H218v2.pdf)
3. **Edition 3** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2001/Bills/House/PDF/H218v3.pdf)
4. **Edition 4** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2001/Bills/House/PDF/H218v4.pdf)
5. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2001/Bills/House/PDF/H218v5.pdf)
6. **SL 2001-290** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2001/Bills/House/PDF/H218v6.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **49–0** (pass) · upper
- M11 Concur — **96–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Alexander — cosponsor (person)
- Barbee — cosponsor (person)
- Church — cosponsor (person)
- Coates — cosponsor (person)
- Cox — cosponsor (person)
- Creech — cosponsor (person)
- Davis — cosponsor (person)
- Edwards — cosponsor (person)
- Gray — cosponsor (person)
- Hill — cosponsor (person)
- Jarrell — cosponsor (person)
- McLawhorn — cosponsor (person)
- Owens — cosponsor (person)
- Redwine — cosponsor (person)
- Teague — cosponsor (person)
- Tolson — cosponsor (person)
- Tucker — cosponsor (person)
- Underhill — cosponsor (person)
- Warren — cosponsor (person)
- Wilson, G. — cosponsor (person)
- Wright — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2001-07-19** Ch. SL 2001-290 `became-law`
- **2001-07-19** Signed By Gov. 7/19/2001 `executive-signature`
- **2001-07-11** Pres. To Gov. 7/11/2001 `executive-receipt`
- **2001-07-10** Ratified
- **2001-07-09** Concurred In S/Com Sub `amendment-passage`
- **2001-07-04** Placed On Cal For 7/9/2001
- **2001-07-02** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2001-07-02** Rec To Concur S Com Sub
- **2001-06-27** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2001-06-26** Com Substitute Adopted
- **2001-06-26** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2001-05-01** Ref To Com On Judiciary I `referral-committee`
- **2001-04-30** Held by Senate
- **2001-04-30** Rec From House
- **2001-04-26** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2001-04-25** Placed On Cal For 4/25/2001
- **2001-04-25** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2001-04-25** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2001-04-19** Re-ref Com On Judiciary I `referral-committee`
- **2001-04-19** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2001-02-22** Ref to the Com on Agriculture and, if favorable, to the Com on Judiciary I `referral-committee`
- **2001-02-22** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/49bf78b1-1af3-4ab1-b248-842cde0e2a86`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).