---
type: "Bill"
title: "Community Colleges May Receive EDA Grants."
description: "Community Colleges May Receive EDA Grants."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2001"
identifier: "HB 938"
citation: "North Carolina HB 938 (2001)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES", "COMMUNITY COLLEGES", "COUNTIES", "GRANTS", "LOCAL", "PRESENTED", "PROPERTY", "PUBLIC", "RATIFIED", "SESSION LAWS", "REP. SMITH", "BRUNSWICK COUNTY", "CARTERET COUNTY", "HAYWOOD COUNTY", "HERTFORD COUNTY", "CHAPTERED"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 5
action_count: 26
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2001-03-28"
last_action: "2001-06-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/192baddb-5654-4a30-a375-ee2bf8255f32"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2001&BillID=H938&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "d0a6f35bf61f4231cbbe32e12b1019168c52ccc8ee2f96ac2cc0793575795081"
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 938 (2001) — Community Colleges May Receive EDA Grants.

## 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/H938v1.pdf)
2. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2001/Bills/House/PDF/H938v2.pdf)
3. **Edition 3** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2001/Bills/House/PDF/H938v3.pdf)
4. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2001/Bills/House/PDF/H938v4.pdf)
5. **SL 2001-211** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2001/Bills/House/PDF/H938v5.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper
- M11 Concur — **103–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Preston — cosponsor (person)
- Smith — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2001-06-15** Ch. SL 2001-211 `became-law`
- **2001-06-15** Signed By Gov. 6/15/2001 `executive-signature`
- **2001-06-06** Pres. To Gov. 6/6/2001 `executive-receipt`
- **2001-06-05** Ratified
- **2001-06-04** Concurred In S/Com Sub `amendment-passage`
- **2001-05-31** Placed On Cal For 6/4/2001
- **2001-05-31** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2001-05-31** Reptd Fav To Concur `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2001-05-29** Reptd To Education
- **2001-05-23** Assigned To Education Subcommittee on Community Colleges `referral-committee`
- **2001-05-09** Re-ref Com On Education `referral-committee`
- **2001-05-09** Withdrawn From Cal
- **2001-05-09** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2001-05-09** Rec To Concur S Com Sub
- **2001-05-07** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2001-05-03** Com Substitute Adopted
- **2001-05-03** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2001-04-16** Ref To Com On Education/Higher Education `referral-committee`
- **2001-04-16** Rec From House
- **2001-04-12** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2001-04-11** Placed On Cal For 4/12/2001
- **2001-04-11** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2001-04-11** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2001-04-05** Assigned To Education Subcommittee on Community Colleges `referral-committee`
- **2001-03-29** Ref To Com On Education `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/192baddb-5654-4a30-a375-ee2bf8255f32`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).