---
type: "Bill"
title: "Charlotte Advisory Referendum."
description: "Charlotte Advisory Referendum."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2001"
identifier: "HB 597"
citation: "North Carolina HB 597 (2001)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CAPITAL SPENDING", "ELECTIONS", "LOCAL", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "MUNICIPALITIES", "RATIFIED", "REFERENDUMS & INITIATIVES", "SPORTS", "REP. MCMAHAN", "CHARLOTTE", "CHAPTERED"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 4
action_count: 14
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2001-03-13"
last_action: "2001-04-02"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e38dd333-b68f-46ba-b92b-4db5f4917e46"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2001&BillID=H597&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "2a54ee31a53139c611c5e27f63d39bfb89d8dcb8bac9f22cacc15f88ec989f1f"
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 597 (2001) — Charlotte Advisory Referendum.

## 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/H597v1.pdf)
2. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2001/Bills/House/PDF/H597v2.pdf)
3. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2001/Bills/House/PDF/H597v3.pdf)
4. **SL 2001-10** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2001/Bills/House/PDF/H597v4.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **96–19** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Alexander — cosponsor (person)
- Cunningham — cosponsor (person)
- Earle — cosponsor (person)
- Easterling — cosponsor (person)
- Harrington — cosponsor (person)
- McMahan — cosponsor (person)
- Wilson, C. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2001-04-02** Ch. SL 2001-10 `became-law`
- **2001-04-02** Ratified
- **2001-04-02** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2001-03-29** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2001-03-28** Ref To Com On State and Local Government `referral-committee`
- **2001-03-28** Rec From House
- **2001-03-28** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2001-03-27** Placed On Cal For 3/28/2001
- **2001-03-27** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2001-03-27** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2001-03-22** Re-ref Com On Local Government I `referral-committee`
- **2001-03-22** Withdrawn From Comm
- **2001-03-14** Ref To Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2001-03-13** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e38dd333-b68f-46ba-b92b-4db5f4917e46`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).