---
type: "Bill"
title: "Farms Exempt From City Annexation & ETJ."
description: "Farms Exempt From City Annexation & ETJ."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2011"
identifier: "HB 168"
citation: "North Carolina HB 168 (2011)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["AGRICULTURE", "ANIMALS", "ANNEXATION", "AQUACULTURE", "DEFINITIONS", "EXTRATERRITORIALITY", "FISHERIES", "FOREST PRODUCTS", "FORESTRY", "HORTICULTURE", "LIVESTOCK & POULTRY", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "MUNICIPALITIES", "PLANNING & ZONING", "PRESENTED", "PROPERTY", "PUBLIC", "RATIFIED", "SESSION LAWS", "TIMBER", "TITLE CHANGE", "CHAPTERED", "REP. CLEVELAND", "REP. SANDERSON", "AGRICULTURAL LAND", "HORSES & MULES"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Cleveland", "Sanderson"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 29
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2011-02-22"
last_action: "2011-06-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/39d88888-efdf-425a-9ba7-910e5e91c2d7"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2011&BillID=H168&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "130935887046020b74dc1354936a43d677e7ad0f4fd9f145ce12d6fc87667903"
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 168 (2011) — Farms Exempt From City Annexation & ETJ.

## 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/H168v0.pdf)
2. **A1: ASB-56-V-1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://webservices.ncleg.net/ViewBillDocument/2011/1246/0/H168-ASB-56-V-1)
3. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/House/PDF/H168v1.pdf)
4. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/House/PDF/H168v2.pdf)
5. **Edition 3** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/House/PDF/H168v3.pdf)
6. **Edition 4** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/House/PDF/H168v4.pdf)
7. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/House/PDF/H168v5.pdf)
8. **SL2011-363** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/House/PDF/H168v6.pdf)

## Votes

- Amendment 1 — **47–3** (pass) · upper
- M11 Concur — **107–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Cleveland — primary (person)
- Sanderson — primary (person)
- Faison — cosponsor (person)
- Frye — cosponsor (person)
- H. Warren — cosponsor (person)
- Hill — cosponsor (person)
- Jones — cosponsor (person)
- Jordan — cosponsor (person)
- L. Brown — cosponsor (person)
- McCormick — cosponsor (person)
- McGee — cosponsor (person)
- Torbett — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2011-06-27** Ch. SL 2011-363 `became-law`
- **2011-06-27** Signed By Gov. 6/27/2011 `executive-signature`
- **2011-06-20** Pres. To Gov. 6/20/2011 `executive-receipt`
- **2011-06-17** Ratified
- **2011-06-17** Concurred In S/Com Sub `amendment-passage`
- **2011-06-16** Placed On Cal For 6/16/2011
- **2011-06-16** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2011-06-16** Rec To Concur S Com Sub
- **2011-06-15** Engrossed
- **2011-06-15** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2011-06-15** Amend Adopted 1 `amendment-passage`
- **2011-06-14** Com Substitute Adopted
- **2011-06-14** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-05-11** Re-ref Com On Finance `referral-committee`
- **2011-05-11** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-04-14** Ref To Com On State and Local Government `referral-committee`
- **2011-04-14** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2011-04-14** Rec From House
- **2011-04-13** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2011-04-11** Postponed To 4/13/2011
- **2011-04-11** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2011-04-07** Placed On Cal For 4/11/2011
- **2011-04-07** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2011-04-07** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-03-21** Re-ref Com On Finance `referral-committee`
- **2011-03-21** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-02-24** Ref to the Com on Government, if favorable, Finance `referral-committee`
- **2011-02-24** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2011-02-22** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/39d88888-efdf-425a-9ba7-910e5e91c2d7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).