---
type: "Bill"
title: "Kannapolis Annexation."
description: "Kannapolis Annexation."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2009"
identifier: "HB 422"
citation: "North Carolina HB 422 (2009)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ANNEXATION", "COUNTIES", "LOCAL", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "MUNICIPALITIES", "PLANNING & ZONING", "RATIFIED", "TITLE CHANGE", "ROWAN COUNTY", "CHAPTERED", "KANNAPOLIS", "CABARRUS COUNTY"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Steen"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2009-03-04"
last_action: "2009-06-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fd5f887a-733a-4d60-89e3-717e1de0eb11"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2009&BillID=H422&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "2e4e3338bb8604e5ba4869df6df7f173c1239251ad70651d05ffb1564e4752a9"
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 422 (2009) — Kannapolis 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/2009/Bills/House/PDF/H422v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/House/PDF/H422v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/House/PDF/H422v2.pdf)
4. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/House/PDF/H422v3.pdf)
5. **SL2009-113** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/House/PDF/H422v4.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Steen — primary (person)
- Coates — cosponsor (person)
- Johnson — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2009-06-16** Ch. SL 2009-113 `became-law`
- **2009-06-16** Ratified
- **2009-06-15** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2009-06-11** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2009-06-10** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2009-04-15** Ref To Com On Finance `referral-committee`
- **2009-04-15** Rec From House
- **2009-04-14** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2009-04-13** Postponed To 4/14/2009
- **2009-04-09** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2009-04-08** Placed On Cal For 4/9/2009
- **2009-04-08** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2009-04-08** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2009-04-01** Re-ref Com On Finance `referral-committee`
- **2009-04-01** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2009-03-05** Ref to the Com on Local Government I, if favorable, Finance `referral-committee`
- **2009-03-05** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2009-03-04** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/fd5f887a-733a-4d60-89e3-717e1de0eb11`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).