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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Revise Voluntary Agricultural District Laws."
+description: "Revise Voluntary Agricultural District Laws."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
+legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "HB 126"
+citation: "North Carolina HB 126 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["AGRICULTURE; EMINENT DOMAIN; LOCAL GOVERNMENT; PLANNING & ZONING; PRESENTED; PROPERTY; PUBLIC; RATIFIED; CHAPTERED; AGRICULTURAL LAND"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Dixon"]
+version_count: 5
+action_count: 28
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2025-02-13"
+last_action: "2025-06-20"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/27b2d51e-71e7-4972-a8b5-b014b57fe12a"
+source_url: "https://www.ncleg.gov/BillLookUp/2025/H126"
+source_hash: "f4be65e6036e02a9873a632d59d8804093de32eb5ec1d377932f75a778940c2c"
+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 126 (2025) — Revise Voluntary Agricultural District Laws.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Filed** (filed) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H126v0.pdf)
+2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H126v1.pdf)
+3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H126v2.pdf)
+4. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H126v3.pdf)
+5. **SL 2025-12** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H126v4.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Second Reading — **115–0** (pass) · lower
+- Second Reading — **44–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Dixon — primary (person)
+- Ager — cosponsor (person)
+- Balkcom — cosponsor (person)
+- Biggs — cosponsor (person)
+- Branson — cosponsor (person)
+- Cairns — cosponsor (person)
+- Eddins — cosponsor (person)
+- G. Brown — cosponsor (person)
+- Harrison — cosponsor (person)
+- Humphrey — cosponsor (person)
+- Jeffers — cosponsor (person)
+- Majeed — cosponsor (person)
+- McNeely — cosponsor (person)
+- N. Jackson — cosponsor (person)
+- Riddell — cosponsor (person)
+- Ward — cosponsor (person)
+- Warren — cosponsor (person)
+- White — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-06-20** Ch. SL 2025-12 `became-law`
+- **2025-06-20** Signed by Gov. 6/20/2025 `executive-signature`
+- **2025-06-13** Pres. To Gov. 6/13/2025 `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-06-12** Ratified
+- **2025-06-11** Ordered Enrolled
+- **2025-06-11** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
+- **2025-06-11** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
+- **2025-06-10** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-06-03** Re-ref Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
+- **2025-06-03** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-06-02** Re-ref to Agriculture, Energy, and Environment. If fav, re-ref to Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
+- **2025-06-02** Withdrawn From Com
+- **2025-04-30** Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
+- **2025-04-30** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
+- **2025-04-30** Regular Message Received From House
+- **2025-04-30** Regular Message Sent To Senate
+- **2025-04-29** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
+- **2025-04-29** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
+- **2025-04-15** Placed On Cal For 04/29/2025
+- **2025-04-15** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
+- **2025-04-15** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-04-10** Re-ref Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
+- **2025-04-10** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-03-26** Re-ref Com On Housing and Development `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-26** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-02-17** Ref to the Com on Agriculture and Environment, if favorable, Housing and Development, if favorable, Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
+- **2025-02-17** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
+- **2025-02-13** Filed `introduction`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/27b2d51e-71e7-4972-a8b5-b014b57fe12a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).
+