---
type: "Bill"
title: "Haywood Fire Tax Districts."
description: "Haywood Fire Tax Districts."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2001"
identifier: "HB 879"
citation: "North Carolina HB 879 (2001)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["COUNTIES", "COUNTY COMMISSIONERS", "FIREFIGHTING", "LOCAL", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "RATIFIED", "REP. HAIRE", "HAYWOOD COUNTY", "CHAPTERED", "FIRE DISTRICTS"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 3
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2001-03-28"
last_action: "2001-05-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1dde234a-4732-4e38-b308-5f6f6b2b922a"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2001&BillID=H879&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "b2f4758e69f08fe0573b45213d703dadee443671ab1e25acac643396f80fdc13"
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 879 (2001) — Haywood Fire Tax Districts.

## 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/H879v1.pdf)
2. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2001/Bills/House/PDF/H879v2.pdf)
3. **SL 2001-56** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2001/Bills/House/PDF/H879v3.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **49–0** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **44–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Haire — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2001-05-08** Ch. SL 2001-56 `became-law`
- **2001-05-08** Ratified
- **2001-05-07** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2001-05-03** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2001-05-02** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2001-04-16** Ref To Com On Finance `referral-committee`
- **2001-04-16** Rec From House
- **2001-04-12** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2001-04-11** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2001-04-10** Placed On Cal For 4/11/2001
- **2001-04-10** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2001-04-10** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2001-03-29** Ref To Com On Finance `referral-committee`
- **2001-03-28** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1dde234a-4732-4e38-b308-5f6f6b2b922a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).