---
type: "Bill"
title: "Acquiring by Right-Condemnation of Property."
description: "Acquiring by Right-Condemnation of Property."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2011"
identifier: "HB 208"
citation: "North Carolina HB 208 (2011)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["COUNTIES", "EMINENT DOMAIN", "LOCAL", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "MUNICIPALITIES", "PROPERTY", "PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION", "RATIFIED", "TRANSPORTATION", "FORSYTH COUNTY", "WINSTON-SALEM", "CHAPTERED", "REP. MCGEE"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["McGee", "Womble"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 17
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2011-03-01"
last_action: "2011-06-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/40f5f87c-4cbf-41a7-997e-a925ce5b020b"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2011&BillID=H208&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "b726c738ef6eca38a02e907ed703ff8e4f458140a54dc37e13135ddc8e8f0397"
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 208 (2011) — Acquiring by Right-Condemnation of Property.

## 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/H208v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/House/PDF/H208v1.pdf)
3. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/House/PDF/H208v2.pdf)
4. **SL2011-149** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/House/PDF/H208v3.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **46–4** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- McGee — primary (person)
- Womble — primary (person)
- Parmon — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2011-06-16** Ch. SL 2011-149 `became-law`
- **2011-06-16** Ratified
- **2011-06-15** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2011-06-14** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2011-06-14** Placed On Cal For 6/14/2011
- **2011-06-14** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-05-11** Ref To Com On State and Local Government `referral-committee`
- **2011-05-11** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2011-05-11** Rec From House
- **2011-05-10** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2011-05-09** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2011-05-05** Placed On Cal For 5/9/2011
- **2011-05-05** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2011-05-05** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-03-03** Ref To Com On Government `referral-committee`
- **2011-03-03** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2011-03-01** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/40f5f87c-4cbf-41a7-997e-a925ce5b020b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).