---
type: "Bill"
title: "County Administration of Municipal Elections."
description: "County Administration of Municipal Elections."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2011"
identifier: "HB 21"
citation: "North Carolina HB 21 (2011)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["BOARDS", "COUNTIES", "ELECTIONS", "ELECTIONS BOARDS", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "MUNICIPALITIES", "PRESENTED", "PUBLIC", "RATIFIED", "VOTER REGISTRATION", "REP. CRAWFORD", "BURKE COUNTY", "MORGANTON", "GRANITE FALLS", "OLD FORT", "RHODHISS", "CHAPTERED"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 5
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2011-02-01"
last_action: "2011-04-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b52b8bc8-bd4d-47c6-b7d0-5994b473367f"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2011&BillID=H21&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "8128f3d22ca7762366cd4a413e6d681382438f0a0622d0b6ec0462d97ebec2bc"
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 21 (2011) — County Administration of Municipal Elections.

## 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/H21v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/House/PDF/H21v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/House/PDF/H21v2.pdf)
4. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/House/PDF/H21v3.pdf)
5. **SL2011-31** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/House/PDF/H21v4.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **49–0** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **117–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Crawford — cosponsor (person)
- Wray — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2011-04-07** Ch. SL 2011-31 `became-law`
- **2011-04-07** Signed By Gov. 4/7/2011 `executive-signature`
- **2011-04-06** Pres. To Gov. 4/6/2011 `executive-receipt`
- **2011-04-05** Ratified
- **2011-04-04** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2011-03-31** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-03-16** Ref To Com On Judiciary I `referral-committee`
- **2011-03-16** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2011-03-16** Rec From House
- **2011-03-15** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2011-03-14** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2011-03-10** Placed On Cal For 3/14/2011
- **2011-03-10** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2011-03-10** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-02-28** Re-ref Com On Elections `referral-committee`
- **2011-02-28** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-02-02** Ref to the Com on Government, if favorable, Elections `referral-committee`
- **2011-02-02** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2011-02-01** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b52b8bc8-bd4d-47c6-b7d0-5994b473367f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).