---
type: "Bill"
title: "Merge Jonesville and Arlington."
description: "Merge Jonesville and Arlington."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2001"
identifier: "HB 6"
citation: "North Carolina HB 6 (2001)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CHARTERS", "ELECTIONS", "LOCAL", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "MUNICIPALITIES", "RATIFIED", "REFERENDUMS & INITIATIVES", "SESSION LAWS", "REP. HOLMES", "YADKIN COUNTY", "JONESVILLE", "ARLINGTON", "CHAPTERED"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 4
action_count: 17
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2001-01-25"
last_action: "2001-04-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c7332248-8426-4dee-96f3-6c0de7f98d79"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2001&BillID=H6&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "25b89be33c7f150701162ae4f643691c24902949c809fe20fff5d2c62f728c86"
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 6 (2001) — Merge Jonesville and Arlington.

## 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/H6v1.pdf)
2. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2001/Bills/House/PDF/H6v2.pdf)
3. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2001/Bills/House/PDF/H6v3.pdf)
4. **SL 2001-16** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2001/Bills/House/PDF/H6v4.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **112–0** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Holmes — cosponsor (person)
- Walker — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2001-04-10** Ch. SL 2001-16 `became-law`
- **2001-04-10** Ratified
- **2001-04-09** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2001-04-05** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2001-04-04** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2001-03-22** Ref To Com On Finance `referral-committee`
- **2001-03-22** Rec From House
- **2001-03-21** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2001-03-20** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2001-03-19** Placed On Cal For 3/20/2001
- **2001-03-19** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2001-03-19** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2001-03-07** Re-ref Com On Finance `referral-committee`
- **2001-03-07** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2001-02-20** Re-ref Com On Local Government II `referral-committee`
- **2001-02-20** Withdrawn From Comm
- **2001-01-25** Ref To Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c7332248-8426-4dee-96f3-6c0de7f98d79`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).