republic-os/legislation/us/states/nc/2001/hb-1597.md

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Bill	Repeal Term Limits.	Repeal Term Limits.	us/states/nc	North Carolina General Assembly	2001	HB 1597	North Carolina HB 1597 (2001)	bill	COUNTIES EDUCATION BOARDS LOCAL LOCAL GOVERNMENT PUBLIC OFFICIALS RATIFIED SESSION LAWS TERM LIMITS REP. BONNER REP. BOYD-MCINTYRE REP. BUCHANAN REP. JEFFUS REP. MCLAWHORN REP. ROGERS REP. SMITH REP. YONGUE HAYWOOD COUNTY ALEXANDER COUNTY IREDELL COUNTY STATESVILLE CHOWAN COUNTY CHAPTERED EDENTON	enacted		5	14	2	2002-06-06	2002-07-15	openstates	ocd-bill/44348a7e-53f5-46ab-a04e-51d84fe59543	http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2001&BillID=H1597&votesToView=all	207b96386763849d423990a937e787a6562b14ce1c11d55ab4c465261636d268	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-nc

North Carolina HB 1597 (2001) — Repeal Term Limits.

Version chain

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

1. Edition 1 (committee substitute) — source
2. Edition 2 (committee substitute) — source
3. Edition 3 (committee substitute) — source
4. Ratified (committee substitute) — source
5. SL 2002-18 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Second Reading — 102–14 (pass) · lower
• A1 Starnes\Second Reading — 62–52 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Bonner — cosponsor (person)
• Boyd-McIntyre — cosponsor (person)
• Buchanan — cosponsor (person)
• Jeffus — cosponsor (person)
• McLawhorn — cosponsor (person)
• Rogers — cosponsor (person)
• Smith — cosponsor (person)
• Yongue — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2002-07-15 Ch. SL 2002-18 became-law
• 2002-07-15 Ratified
• 2002-07-11 Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading passage, reading-2, reading-3
• 2002-07-10 Reptd Fav committee-passage-favorable
• 2002-07-08 Ref To Com On State and Local Government referral-committee
• 2002-07-08 Rec From House
• 2002-07-03 Passed 3rd Reading passage, reading-3
• 2002-07-02 Passed 2nd Reading reading-2
• 2002-07-02 Amend Adopted #1 amendment-passage
• 2002-07-01 Placed On Cal For 7/2/2002
• 2002-06-26 Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
• 2002-06-26 Reptd Fav Com Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2002-06-10 Ref To Com On Local Government II referral-committee
• 2002-06-06 Filed introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/44348a7e-53f5-46ab-a04e-51d84fe59543. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).