---
type: "Bill"
title: "Greenville/Clear-Cutting Trees."
description: "Greenville/Clear-Cutting Trees."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2005"
identifier: "HB 2570"
citation: "North Carolina HB 2570 (2005)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["COUNTIES", "LOCAL", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "MUNICIPALITIES", "PLANNING & ZONING", "PROPERTY", "RATIFIED", "REP. MCLAWHORN", "REP. WARREN", "GREENVILLE", "PITT COUNTY", "PLANTS & TREES", "CHAPTERED"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Warren"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 12
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2006-05-24"
last_action: "2006-07-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ca648eed-8879-4ef3-9263-c52ef7807e19"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2005&BillID=H2570&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "ac5ae8686275c428cc74d43bb2fcda01eafad8815220b359d2916871d8a57d2f"
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 2570 (2005) — Greenville/Clear-Cutting Trees.

## 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/2005/Bills/House/PDF/H2570v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2005/Bills/House/PDF/H2570v1.pdf)
3. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2005/Bills/House/PDF/H2570v2.pdf)
4. **SL2006-102** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2005/Bills/House/PDF/H2570v3.pdf)

## Votes

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

## Sponsors

- Warren — primary (person)
- McLawhorn — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2006-07-12** Ch. SL 2006-102 `became-law`
- **2006-07-12** Ratified
- **2006-07-11** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2006-07-10** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2006-06-28** Ref To Com On State and Local Government `referral-committee`
- **2006-06-28** Rec From House
- **2006-06-27** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2006-06-26** Placed On Cal For 6/27/2006
- **2006-06-22** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2006-06-22** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2006-05-25** Ref To Com On Local Government I `referral-committee`
- **2006-05-24** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ca648eed-8879-4ef3-9263-c52ef7807e19`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).