---
type: "Bill"
title: "High Point Charter/Council Hire City Attorney."
description: "High Point Charter/Council Hire City Attorney."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2013"
identifier: "HB 1207"
citation: "North Carolina HB 1207 (2013)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ATTORNEYS", "CHARTERS", "COUNTIES", "EMPLOYMENT", "LOCAL", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "MUNICIPALITIES", "OCCUPATIONS", "PERSONNEL", "RATIFIED", "SESSION LAWS", "GUILFORD COUNTY", "HIGH POINT", "CHAPTERED", "GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Blust", "Brandon", "Faircloth"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 18
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2014-05-27"
last_action: "2014-06-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/54fd18ff-f66f-4fa0-a9e9-e00cc7b444d7"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2013&BillID=H1207&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "bff47f752dc8224cebc787f554c1e34388f360c97b985a68982eef7cd0285c83"
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 1207 (2013) — High Point Charter/Council Hire City Attorney.

## 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/H1207v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2013/Bills/House/PDF/H1207v1.pdf)
3. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2013/Bills/House/PDF/H1207v2.pdf)
4. **SL2014-38** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2013/Bills/House/PDF/H1207v3.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Blust — primary (person)
- Brandon — primary (person)
- Faircloth — primary (person)
- Adams — cosponsor (person)
- Hurley — cosponsor (person)
- Turner — cosponsor (person)
- Younts — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2014-06-26** Ch. SL 2014-38 `became-law`
- **2014-06-26** Ratified
- **2014-06-25** Ordered Enrolled
- **2014-06-25** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2014-06-25** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2014-06-24** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2014-06-19** Ref To Com On State and Local Government `referral-committee`
- **2014-06-19** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2014-06-19** Special Message Received From House
- **2014-06-19** Special Message Sent To Senate
- **2014-06-18** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2014-06-18** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2014-06-18** Added to Calendar
- **2014-06-18** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2014-06-18** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2014-05-28** Ref To Com On Government `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/54fd18ff-f66f-4fa0-a9e9-e00cc7b444d7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).