---
type: "Bill"
title: "Bill Lee Two-County Projects."
description: "Bill Lee Two-County Projects."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2001"
identifier: "SB 538"
citation: "North Carolina SB 538 (2001)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["COUNTIES", "ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT", "EMPLOYMENT", "FISCAL NOTES", "INDUSTRIAL LOCATION", "LDC", "PRESENTED", "PUBLIC", "RATIFIED", "SPECIAL ECONOMIC ZONES", "SEN. ALBERTSON", "SEN. JORDAN", "SEN. THOMAS", "CHAPTERED"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 4
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2001-03-15"
last_action: "2001-05-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/acb24a37-0f5b-49f3-baa1-ad3ca383db58"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2001&BillID=S538&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "151acc2b693bc5aa5fab92e2d9820f2ce46d54c066153873762a340b4f5ef5e5"
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 SB 538 (2001) — Bill Lee Two-County Projects.

## 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/Senate/PDF/S538v1.pdf)
2. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2001/Bills/Senate/PDF/S538v2.pdf)
3. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2001/Bills/Senate/PDF/S538v3.pdf)
4. **SL 2001-94** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2001/Bills/Senate/PDF/S538v4.pdf)

## Votes

- Amendment 1 — **46–0** (pass) · upper
- Second Reading — **100–11** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Albertson — cosponsor (person)
- Jordan — cosponsor (person)
- Thomas — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2001-05-18** Ch. SL 2001-94 `became-law`
- **2001-05-18** Signed By Gov. 5/18/2001 `executive-signature`
- **2001-05-14** Pres. To Gov. 5/11/2001 `executive-receipt`
- **2001-05-10** Ratified
- **2001-05-09** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2001-05-08** Placed On Cal For 5/9/2001
- **2001-05-08** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2001-05-08** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2001-04-24** Ref To Com On Finance `referral-committee`
- **2001-04-24** Rec From Senate
- **2001-04-19** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2001-04-19** Amend Adopted #1 `amendment-passage`
- **2001-04-18** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2001-03-19** Ref To Com On Finance `referral-committee`
- **2001-03-15** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/acb24a37-0f5b-49f3-baa1-ad3ca383db58`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).