---
type: "Bill"
title: "Salisbury Annexations."
description: "Salisbury Annexations."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2001"
identifier: "HB 321"
citation: "North Carolina HB 321 (2001)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ANNEXATION", "BLANK BILL", "COUNTIES", "LOCAL", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "MUNICIPALITIES", "PLANNING & ZONING", "RATIFIED", "TITLE CHANGE", "REP. COATES", "ROWAN COUNTY", "SALISBURY", "CHAPTERED"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 4
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2001-02-27"
last_action: "2001-05-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a5518bc4-446f-4a9c-977a-491ba7679a71"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2001&BillID=H321&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "8ec43fc1556a94dcc67b2e510927e691cee824b0a73c07aa05c138a4180e6b25"
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 321 (2001) — Salisbury Annexations.

## 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/H321v1.pdf)
2. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2001/Bills/House/PDF/H321v2.pdf)
3. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2001/Bills/House/PDF/H321v3.pdf)
4. **SL 2001-72** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2001/Bills/House/PDF/H321v4.pdf)

## Votes

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

## Sponsors

- Coates — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2001-05-15** Ch. SL 2001-72 `became-law`
- **2001-05-15** Ratified
- **2001-05-14** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2001-05-10** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2001-05-09** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2001-04-25** Ref To Com On Finance `referral-committee`
- **2001-04-25** Rec From House
- **2001-04-24** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2001-04-23** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2001-04-19** Placed On Cal For 4/23/2001
- **2001-04-18** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2001-04-18** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2001-04-11** Re-ref Com On Local Government II `referral-committee`
- **2001-04-11** Withdrawn From Comm
- **2001-02-28** Ref To Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2001-02-27** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a5518bc4-446f-4a9c-977a-491ba7679a71`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).