---
type: "Bill"
title: "Wilmington Voluntary Annexations."
description: "Wilmington Voluntary Annexations."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2011"
identifier: "HB 180"
citation: "North Carolina HB 180 (2011)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ANNEXATION", "COUNTIES", "LOCAL", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "MUNICIPALITIES", "PLANNING & ZONING", "RATIFIED", "TITLE CHANGE", "REP. MCCOMAS", "NEW HANOVER COUNTY", "WILMINGTON", "CHAPTERED", "REP. JUSTICE"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["McComas"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 36
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2011-02-23"
last_action: "2012-07-02"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1689d5ef-9c9b-4594-abc2-dfc0549a4f29"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2011&BillID=H180&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "b5835d556694c05e47976d1ea9f57efdbe1645b6570d4a2f420fda73dc9bf4f5"
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 180 (2011) — Wilmington Voluntary Annexations.

## 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/H180v0.pdf)
2. **A1: ARBX-96-V-1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://webservices.ncleg.net/ViewBillDocument/2011/7078/0/H180-ARBX-96-V-1)
3. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/House/PDF/H180v1.pdf)
4. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/House/PDF/H180v2.pdf)
5. **Edition 3** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/House/PDF/H180v3.pdf)
6. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/House/PDF/H180v4.pdf)
7. **SL2012-138** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/House/PDF/H180v5.pdf)

## Votes

- R2 Ruled Mat'l\M11 Concur — **114–0** (pass) · lower
- R3 Ruled Mat'l\M11 Concur — **118–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- McComas — primary (person)
- H. Warren — cosponsor (person)
- Justice — cosponsor (person)
- Moffitt — cosponsor (person)
- Pridgen — cosponsor (person)
- Starnes — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2012-07-02** Ch. SL 2012-138 `became-law`
- **2012-07-02** Ratified
- **2012-07-02** Concurred On 3rd Reading
- **2012-06-28** Concurred On 2nd Reading
- **2012-06-27** Placed On Cal For 6/28/2012
- **2012-06-27** Withdrawn From Com
- **2012-06-25** Ref To Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2012-06-25** Com Sub Ruled Material
- **2012-06-25** Rec To Concur S Com Sub
- **2012-06-25** Rec From Senate
- **2012-06-25** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2012-06-21** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2012-06-20** Engrossed
- **2012-06-20** Amends Ruled Material
- **2012-06-20** Amend Adopted 1 `amendment-passage`
- **2012-06-19** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2012-06-05** Re-ref Com On Finance `referral-committee`
- **2012-06-05** Com Substitute Adopted
- **2012-06-05** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2012-05-22** Re-ref Com On State and Local Government `referral-committee`
- **2012-05-22** Withdrawn From Com
- **2011-04-05** Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2011-04-05** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2011-04-05** Rec From House
- **2011-04-04** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2011-03-31** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2011-03-28** Postponed To 3/31/2011
- **2011-03-24** Postponed To 3/28/2011
- **2011-03-24** Placed On Cal For 3/24/2011
- **2011-03-24** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2011-03-24** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-03-17** Re-ref Com On Finance `referral-committee`
- **2011-03-17** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-02-28** Ref to the Com on Government, if favorable, Finance `referral-committee`
- **2011-02-28** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2011-02-23** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1689d5ef-9c9b-4594-abc2-dfc0549a4f29`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).