---
type: "Bill"
title: "Statesville Deannexation."
description: "Statesville Deannexation."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2009"
identifier: "HB 337"
citation: "North Carolina HB 337 (2009)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ANNEXATION", "COUNTIES", "LOCAL", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "MUNICIPALITIES", "PLANNING & ZONING", "RATIFIED", "REP. HOWARD", "IREDELL COUNTY", "STATESVILLE", "CHAPTERED"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 4
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2009-02-26"
last_action: "2010-06-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/282f4d77-acba-40fc-84cc-047907b151ee"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2009&BillID=H337&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "d7a85fe823758f9abb1291069d33c8aea939cd27f6f60f3e6fc88b005db7f978"
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 337 (2009) — Statesville Deannexation.

## 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/H337v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/House/PDF/H337v1.pdf)
3. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/House/PDF/H337v2.pdf)
4. **SL2010-28** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/House/PDF/H337v3.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **48–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Howard — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2010-06-30** Ch. SL 2010-28 `became-law`
- **2010-06-30** Ratified
- **2010-06-29** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2010-06-24** Placed On Cal For 6/29/2010
- **2010-06-24** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2010-06-23** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2009-04-01** Ref To Com On Finance `referral-committee`
- **2009-04-01** Rec From House
- **2009-03-31** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2009-03-30** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2009-03-26** Placed On Cal For 3/30/2009
- **2009-03-26** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2009-03-26** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2009-03-11** Re-ref Com On Finance `referral-committee`
- **2009-03-11** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2009-03-02** Ref to the Com on Local Government II, if favorable, Finance `referral-committee`
- **2009-03-02** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2009-02-26** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/282f4d77-acba-40fc-84cc-047907b151ee`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).