---
type: "Bill"
title: "Oak Island/Recall Officials."
description: "Oak Island/Recall Officials."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2011"
identifier: "HB 140"
citation: "North Carolina HB 140 (2011)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CHARTERS", "CITY COUNCILS", "COUNTIES", "ELECTIONS", "LOCAL", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "MAYORS", "MUNICIPALITIES", "PUBLIC OFFICIALS", "RATIFIED", "REFERENDUMS & INITIATIVES", "SESSION LAWS", "BRUNSWICK COUNTY", "OAK ISLAND", "CHAPTERED", "RECALL", "REP. ILER"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 5
action_count: 14
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2011-02-17"
last_action: "2011-04-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c0218c0c-7909-4c3b-9f93-b973ef6c36c1"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2011&BillID=H140&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "719a33d3ff224e05019eee1803624497941ad8cc4a72429aeaff7b0d04e0f0e5"
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 140 (2011) — Oak Island/Recall Officials.

## 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/2011/Bills/House/PDF/H140v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/House/PDF/H140v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/House/PDF/H140v2.pdf)
4. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/House/PDF/H140v3.pdf)
5. **SL2011-51** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/House/PDF/H140v4.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **111–4** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Hill — cosponsor (person)
- Iler — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2011-04-21** Ch. SL 2011-51 `became-law`
- **2011-04-21** Ratified
- **2011-04-20** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2011-04-19** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-03-09** Ref To Com On State and Local Government `referral-committee`
- **2011-03-09** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2011-03-09** Rec From House
- **2011-03-08** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2011-03-07** Placed On Cal For 3/8/2011
- **2011-03-07** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2011-03-07** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-02-21** Ref To Com On Government `referral-committee`
- **2011-02-21** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2011-02-17** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c0218c0c-7909-4c3b-9f93-b973ef6c36c1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).