---
type: "Bill"
title: "Burlington Charter/Revision and Consolidation."
description: "Burlington Charter/Revision and Consolidation."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2013"
identifier: "HB 1212"
citation: "North Carolina HB 1212 (2013)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CHARTERS", "CITY COUNCILS", "CITY MANAGERS", "COUNTIES", "LOCAL", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "MAYORS", "MUNICIPALITIES", "RATIFIED", "SESSION LAWS", "ALAMANCE COUNTY", "BURLINGTON", "CHAPTERED"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["S. Ross"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 23
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2014-05-27"
last_action: "2014-07-17"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7a6263e7-6175-487c-bebc-537c4b59a1a7"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2013&BillID=H1212&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "6d78c1b8fcab69770682bb0756be30e1d1e7bb4d4ddf61fd0e9d4256bee73285"
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 1212 (2013) — Burlington Charter/Revision and Consolidation.

## 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/2013/Bills/House/PDF/H1212v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2013/Bills/House/PDF/H1212v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2013/Bills/House/PDF/H1212v2.pdf)
4. **Edition 3** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2013/Bills/House/PDF/H1212v3.pdf)
5. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2013/Bills/House/PDF/H1212v4.pdf)
6. **SL2014-74** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2013/Bills/House/PDF/H1212v5.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper
- Second Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- S. Ross — primary (person)
- Riddell — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2014-07-17** Ch. SL 2014-74 `became-law`
- **2014-07-17** Ratified
- **2014-07-16** Ordered Enrolled
- **2014-07-16** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2014-07-15** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2014-07-15** Placed on Today's Supplemental Calendar
- **2014-07-15** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2014-07-14** Re-ref Com On Finance `referral-committee`
- **2014-07-14** Withdrawn From Com
- **2014-06-25** Ref to State and Local Government. If fav, re-ref to Finance `referral-committee`
- **2014-06-25** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2014-06-25** Special Message Received From House
- **2014-06-24** Special Message Sent To Senate
- **2014-06-24** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2014-06-23** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2014-06-19** Placed On Cal For 06/23/2014
- **2014-06-19** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2014-06-19** Reptd Fav Com Sub 2 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2014-06-09** Re-ref Com On Finance `referral-committee`
- **2014-06-09** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2014-05-28** Ref to the Com on Government, if favorable, Finance `referral-committee`
- **2014-05-28** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2014-05-27** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7a6263e7-6175-487c-bebc-537c4b59a1a7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).