---
type: "Bill"
title: "Norwood Satellite Annexations."
description: "Norwood Satellite Annexations."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2007"
identifier: "HB 537"
citation: "North Carolina HB 537 (2007)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ANNEXATION", "COUNTIES", "LOCAL", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "MUNICIPALITIES", "PLANNING & ZONING", "RATIFIED", "STANLY COUNTY", "NORWOOD", "CHAPTERED", "REP. ALMOND"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 4
action_count: 17
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2007-03-07"
last_action: "2007-06-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9acb4426-4462-46df-a96e-4f24f8c836a7"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2007&BillID=H537&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "a43e123c9aa6a1f736dbe45cc35f7e789da1c49ec68a3019f5c68be461565033"
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 537 (2007) — Norwood 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/2007/Bills/House/PDF/H537v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/House/PDF/H537v1.pdf)
3. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/House/PDF/H537v2.pdf)
4. **SL2007-71** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/House/PDF/H537v3.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **43–0** (pass) · upper
- Second Reading — **41–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Almond — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2007-06-12** Ch. SL 2007-71 `became-law`
- **2007-06-12** Ratified
- **2007-06-11** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2007-06-07** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2007-06-06** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2007-04-16** Ref To Com On Finance `referral-committee`
- **2007-04-16** Rec From House
- **2007-04-12** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2007-04-10** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2007-04-05** Placed On Cal For 4/10/2007
- **2007-04-05** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2007-04-05** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2007-03-29** Re-ref Com On Finance `referral-committee`
- **2007-03-29** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2007-03-12** Ref to the Com on Local Government I and, if favorable, to the Com on Finance `referral-committee`
- **2007-03-12** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2007-03-07** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9acb4426-4462-46df-a96e-4f24f8c836a7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).