---
type: "Bill"
title: "Chapel Hill Annexations."
description: "Chapel Hill Annexations."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2001"
identifier: "SB 657"
citation: "North Carolina SB 657 (2001)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ANNEXATION", "BLANK BILL", "LOCAL", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "MUNICIPALITIES", "PLANNING & ZONING", "RATIFIED", "TITLE CHANGE", "SEN. KINNAIRD", "SEN. LEE", "CHAPEL HILL", "ORANGE COUNTY", "CHAPTERED"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 5
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2001-03-21"
last_action: "2001-08-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/785a4e20-9a2c-4d7d-abdf-06632f3f6f80"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2001&BillID=S657&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "5c3563ac0019be1818b0ee24a3013282caa32fda79f336db7b6f329b76d5dfaa"
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 657 (2001) — Chapel Hill Annexations.

## 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/S657v1.pdf)
2. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2001/Bills/Senate/PDF/S657v2.pdf)
3. **Edition 3** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2001/Bills/Senate/PDF/S657v3.pdf)
4. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2001/Bills/Senate/PDF/S657v4.pdf)
5. **SL 2001-348** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2001/Bills/Senate/PDF/S657v5.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **106–0** (pass) · lower
- Second Reading — **85–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Kinnaird — cosponsor (person)
- Lee — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2001-08-08** Ch. SL 2001-348 `became-law`
- **2001-08-08** Ratified
- **2001-08-07** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2001-08-06** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2001-08-02** Placed On Cal For 8/6/2001
- **2001-08-02** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2001-08-02** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2001-07-25** Ref To Com On Finance `referral-committee`
- **2001-07-25** Rec From Senate
- **2001-07-23** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2001-07-23** Amend Adopted #1 `amendment-passage`
- **2001-07-23** Reconsidered 3rd Reading
- **2001-07-19** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2001-07-18** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2001-07-17** Com Substitute Adopted
- **2001-07-17** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2001-03-22** Ref To Com On Finance `referral-committee`
- **2001-03-21** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/785a4e20-9a2c-4d7d-abdf-06632f3f6f80`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).