---
type: "Bill"
title: "Tabor City Satellite Annexation."
description: "Tabor City Satellite Annexation."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2005"
identifier: "SB 16"
citation: "North Carolina SB 16 (2005)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ANNEXATION", "COUNTIES", "LOCAL", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "MUNICIPALITIES", "PLANNING & ZONING", "RATIFIED", "SEN. SOLES", "COLUMBUS COUNTY", "CHAPTERED", "TABOR CITY"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 5
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2005-01-27"
last_action: "2005-04-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/426484c2-f12a-43bd-a5a7-496298686a29"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2005&BillID=S16&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "aa714cc4f259de369f93ddb37f4e968c5d79acd1084298edf0dbf5a8ab941091"
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 16 (2005) — Tabor City Satellite 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/2005/Bills/Senate/PDF/S16v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2005/Bills/Senate/PDF/S16v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2005/Bills/Senate/PDF/S16v2.pdf)
4. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2005/Bills/Senate/PDF/S16v3.pdf)
5. **SL2005-8** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2005/Bills/Senate/PDF/S16v4.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **97–8** (pass) · lower
- Second Reading — **113–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Soles — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2005-04-18** Ch. SL 2005-8 `became-law`
- **2005-04-19** Ratified
- **2005-04-14** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2005-04-13** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2005-04-12** Placed On Cal For 4/13/2005
- **2005-04-07** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2005-04-07** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2005-03-23** Ref To Com On Finance `referral-committee`
- **2005-03-23** Rec From Senate
- **2005-03-21** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2005-03-17** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2005-03-16** Com Substitute Adopted
- **2005-03-16** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2005-01-31** Ref To Com On Finance `referral-committee`
- **2005-01-27** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/426484c2-f12a-43bd-a5a7-496298686a29`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).