---
type: "Bill"
title: "Winston-Salem/Acquire Substandard Dwellings."
description: "Winston-Salem/Acquire Substandard Dwellings."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2009"
identifier: "HB 227"
citation: "North Carolina HB 227 (2009)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["COUNTIES", "EMINENT DOMAIN", "HOUSING", "LOCAL", "MUNICIPALITIES", "PROPERTY", "RATIFIED", "REAL ESTATE", "REP. WOMBLE", "NASH COUNTY", "FORSYTH COUNTY", "ROCKY MOUNT", "WINSTON-SALEM", "CHAPTERED"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Womble"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 17
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2009-02-19"
last_action: "2009-05-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/211a3b2a-6fa4-49cb-abe2-891f1ac7cc20"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2009&BillID=H227&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "77865b89923253aefa51df66b90329a784bfe85bd08ef56b45cfb496a47996b1"
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 227 (2009) — Winston-Salem/Acquire Substandard Dwellings.

## 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/2009/Bills/House/PDF/H227v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/House/PDF/H227v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/House/PDF/H227v2.pdf)
4. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/House/PDF/H227v3.pdf)
5. **SL2009-34** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/House/PDF/H227v4.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **48–0** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **48–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Womble — primary (person)
- Parmon — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2009-05-26** Ch. SL 2009-34 `became-law`
- **2009-05-26** Ratified
- **2009-05-21** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2009-05-20** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2009-05-19** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2009-03-31** Ref To Com On State and Local Government `referral-committee`
- **2009-03-31** Rec From House
- **2009-03-30** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2009-03-26** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2009-03-25** Placed On Cal For 3/26/2009
- **2009-03-25** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2009-03-25** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2009-03-11** Re-ref Com On Judiciary I `referral-committee`
- **2009-03-11** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2009-02-23** Ref to the Com on Local Government I, if favorable, Judiciary I `referral-committee`
- **2009-02-23** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2009-02-19** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/211a3b2a-6fa4-49cb-abe2-891f1ac7cc20`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).