---
type: "Bill"
title: "Dallas Annexation."
description: "Dallas Annexation."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2003"
identifier: "SB 475"
citation: "North Carolina SB 475 (2003)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ANNEXATION", "COUNTIES", "LOCAL", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "MUNICIPALITIES", "PLANNING & ZONING", "RATIFIED", "SEN. HOYLE", "GASTON COUNTY", "DALLAS", "CHAPTERED"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 5
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2003-03-19"
last_action: "2003-06-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/07c2ccf9-94c0-4771-a939-e14487e23365"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2003&BillID=S475&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "73bbca84046212993c9af508e77c714bcc5064521f66f5e52fd80c7a63a86c25"
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 SB 475 (2003) — Dallas 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/Senate/PDF/S475v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/Senate/PDF/S475v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/Senate/PDF/S475v2.pdf)
4. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/Senate/PDF/S475v3.pdf)
5. **SL 2003-279** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/Senate/PDF/S475v4.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **106–1** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **112–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Hoyle — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2003-06-29** Ch. SL 2003-279 `became-law`
- **2003-06-29** Ratified
- **2003-06-29** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2003-06-26** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2003-06-25** Placed On Cal For 6/26/2003
- **2003-06-23** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2003-06-23** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2003-05-26** Ref To Com On Finance `referral-committee`
- **2003-05-26** Rec From Senate
- **2003-05-21** Engrossed
- **2003-05-21** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2003-05-20** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2003-05-20** Amend Adopted # 2 `amendment-passage`
- **2003-05-15** Placed On Cal For 5/20/2003
- **2003-05-15** Held As Material
- **2003-05-15** Amend Adopted # 1 `amendment-passage`
- **2003-05-14** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2003-03-20** Ref To Com On Finance `referral-committee`
- **2003-03-19** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/07c2ccf9-94c0-4771-a939-e14487e23365`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).