---
type: "Bill"
title: "Asheville Satellite Annexations."
description: "Asheville Satellite Annexations."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2005"
identifier: "SB 249"
citation: "North Carolina SB 249 (2005)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ANNEXATION", "BLANK BILL", "COUNTIES", "LOCAL", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "MUNICIPALITIES", "PLANNING & ZONING", "RATIFIED", "TITLE CHANGE", "BUNCOMBE COUNTY", "HENDERSON COUNTY", "ASHEVILLE", "POLK COUNTY", "CHAPTERED", "SEN. APODACA"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 5
action_count: 17
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2005-02-28"
last_action: "2005-06-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2b51a936-3c33-4de7-a5a4-ebf1b908cea6"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2005&BillID=S249&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "d594c949dc231c44f0fb344e1ddf7fb51b2b47c910488783bcc31337b0e9406b"
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 249 (2005) — Asheville Satellite Annexations.

## 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/S249v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2005/Bills/Senate/PDF/S249v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2005/Bills/Senate/PDF/S249v2.pdf)
4. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2005/Bills/Senate/PDF/S249v3.pdf)
5. **SL2005-85** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2005/Bills/Senate/PDF/S249v4.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **84–11** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **113–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Apodaca — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2005-06-15** Ch. SL 2005-85 `became-law`
- **2005-06-15** Ratified
- **2005-06-14** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2005-06-13** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2005-06-09** Placed On Cal For 6/13/2005
- **2005-06-08** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2005-06-08** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2005-05-26** Ref To Com On Finance `referral-committee`
- **2005-05-26** Rec From Senate
- **2005-05-23** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2005-05-19** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2005-05-18** Com Substitute Adopted
- **2005-05-18** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2005-05-05** Re-ref Com On Finance `referral-committee`
- **2005-05-05** Withdrawn From Comm
- **2005-03-01** Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2005-02-28** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2b51a936-3c33-4de7-a5a4-ebf1b908cea6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).