---
type: "Bill"
title: "County School Acquisition."
description: "County School Acquisition."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2001"
identifier: "HB 804"
citation: "North Carolina HB 804 (2001)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["COUNTIES", "EDUCATION", "EDUCATION BOARDS", "EMINENT DOMAIN", "LOCAL", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "PROPERTY", "PURCHASING", "RATIFIED", "REAL ESTATE", "TITLE CHANGE", "REP. UNDERHILL", "REP. WAINWRIGHT", "MONTGOMERY COUNTY", "ANSON COUNTY", "CRAVEN COUNTY", "PAMLICO COUNTY", "MCDOWELL COUNTY", "CHAPTERED"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 5
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2001-03-22"
last_action: "2001-05-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/999d5224-3613-4977-8e4f-4b494680cc4c"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2001&BillID=H804&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "7980f75c75c53f071c3d1c60f41776262adc4566d7ba6271ccc9d01b49658cd4"
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 804 (2001) — County School Acquisition.

## 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/H804v1.pdf)
2. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2001/Bills/House/PDF/H804v2.pdf)
3. **Edition 3** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2001/Bills/House/PDF/H804v3.pdf)
4. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2001/Bills/House/PDF/H804v4.pdf)
5. **SL 2001-76** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2001/Bills/House/PDF/H804v5.pdf)

## Votes

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

## Sponsors

- Underhill — cosponsor (person)
- Wainwright — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2001-05-15** Ch. SL 2001-76 `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`
- **2001-04-26** Ref To Com On Finance `referral-committee`
- **2001-04-26** Rec From House
- **2001-04-26** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2001-04-25** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2001-04-24** Placed On Cal For 4/25/2001
- **2001-04-24** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2001-04-24** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2001-04-11** Re-ref Com On Finance `referral-committee`
- **2001-04-11** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2001-03-26** Ref To Com On Local Government I `referral-committee`
- **2001-03-22** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/999d5224-3613-4977-8e4f-4b494680cc4c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).