---
type: "Bill"
title: "Belhaven Recall Elections."
description: "Belhaven Recall Elections."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2011"
identifier: "HB 291"
citation: "North Carolina HB 291 (2011)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CHARTERS", "CITY COUNCILS", "ELECTIONS", "LOCAL", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "MAYORS", "MUNICIPALITIES", "PUBLIC OFFICIALS", "RATIFIED", "REFERENDUMS & INITIATIVES", "BELHAVEN", "CHAPTERED", "RECALL", "REP. COOK"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 6
action_count: 24
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2011-03-09"
last_action: "2011-06-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/57176d15-70cc-4591-84d7-1eef13b10ceb"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2011&BillID=H291&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "cc7bf3b0a9f9e02fcf1989c496523f42fe57f276a2d4bf9142e0df4473f59dd9"
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 291 (2011) — Belhaven Recall Elections.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Filed** (filed) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/House/PDF/H291v0.pdf)
2. **A1: ALB-129-V-1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://webservices.ncleg.net/ViewBillDocument/2011/1273/0/H291-ALB-129-V-1)
3. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/House/PDF/H291v1.pdf)
4. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/House/PDF/H291v2.pdf)
5. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/House/PDF/H291v3.pdf)
6. **SL2011-156** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/House/PDF/H291v4.pdf)

## Votes

- Amendment 1 — **26–22** (pass) · upper
- M11 Concur\Sen. Amd. 1 — **112–5** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Cook — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2011-06-16** Ch. SL 2011-156 `became-law`
- **2011-06-16** Ratified
- **2011-06-16** Concurred In S Amend 1 `amendment-passage`
- **2011-06-15** Placed On Cal For 6/16/2011
- **2011-06-15** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2011-06-15** Rec To Concur In S Amend 1
- **2011-06-15** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2011-06-15** Amend Adopted 1 `amendment-passage`
- **2011-06-15** Placed On Cal For 6/15/2011
- **2011-06-15** Withdrawn From Com
- **2011-06-14** Re-ref Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2011-06-14** Withdrawn From Cal
- **2011-06-14** Placed On Cal For 6/14/2011
- **2011-06-14** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-04-14** Ref To Com On State and Local Government `referral-committee`
- **2011-04-14** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2011-04-14** Rec From House
- **2011-04-13** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2011-04-12** Placed On Cal For 4/13/2011
- **2011-04-11** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2011-04-11** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-03-10** Ref To Com On Government `referral-committee`
- **2011-03-10** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2011-03-09** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/57176d15-70cc-4591-84d7-1eef13b10ceb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).