---
type: "Bill"
title: "Roanoke Rapids Annexation."
description: "Roanoke Rapids Annexation."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2003"
identifier: "HB 135"
citation: "North Carolina HB 135 (2003)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ANNEXATION", "COUNTIES", "LOCAL", "MUNICIPALITIES", "PLANNING & ZONING", "RATIFIED", "HALIFAX COUNTY", "CHAPTERED", "ROANOKE RAPIDS", "REP. L. ALLEN"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hall"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2003-02-26"
last_action: "2003-04-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/34c9fb0c-4f74-4b92-af9f-01549de61954"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2003&BillID=H135&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "c8319d2fd5bb5ea29e502a63b7ab03a463b2fb59c19b407021550a6ec21ad15c"
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 135 (2003) — Roanoke Rapids Annexation.

## 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/2003/Bills/House/PDF/H135v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/House/PDF/H135v1.pdf)
3. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/House/PDF/H135v2.pdf)
4. **SL 2003-7** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/House/PDF/H135v3.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **50–0** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **49–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Hall — primary (person)
- L. Allen — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2003-04-01** Ch. SL 2003-7 `became-law`
- **2003-03-31** Ratified
- **2003-03-27** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2003-03-26** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2003-03-25** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2003-03-17** Ref To Com On Finance `referral-committee`
- **2003-03-17** Rec From House
- **2003-03-13** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2003-03-12** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2003-03-11** Placed On Cal For 3/12/2003
- **2003-03-11** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2003-03-11** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2003-02-27** Ref To Com On Finance `referral-committee`
- **2003-02-26** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/34c9fb0c-4f74-4b92-af9f-01549de61954`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).