---
type: "Bill"
title: "Henderson County Fire Districts."
description: "Henderson County Fire Districts."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2011"
identifier: "HB 26"
citation: "North Carolina HB 26 (2011)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["COUNTIES", "COUNTY COMMISSIONERS", "EMERGENCY SERVICES", "FIREFIGHTERS & FIREFIGHTING", "LOCAL", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "RATIFIED", "SESSION LAWS", "HENDERSON COUNTY", "CHAPTERED", "FIRE DISTRICTS", "REP. GUICE", "REP. MCGRADY"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["McGrady"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 24
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2011-02-01"
last_action: "2011-04-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2a5d809b-c9a0-4772-a71b-9abf969ce002"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2011&BillID=H26&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "fc0759e816ed6dbb8dec9d4b9d976f721c2b50fa8f50867c73e76ed44c2f2003"
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 26 (2011) — Henderson County Fire Districts.

## 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/H26v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/House/PDF/H26v1.pdf)
3. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/House/PDF/H26v2.pdf)
4. **SL2011-50** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/House/PDF/H26v3.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **49–0** (pass) · upper
- Second Reading — **48–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- McGrady — primary (person)
- Guice — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2011-04-21** Ch. SL 2011-50 `became-law`
- **2011-04-21** Ratified
- **2011-04-20** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2011-04-19** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2011-04-18** Placed On Cal For 4/19/2011
- **2011-04-18** Withdrawn From Cal
- **2011-04-16** Placed On Cal For 4/18/2011
- **2011-04-16** Withdrawn From Cal
- **2011-04-14** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-03-23** Ref To Com On State and Local Government `referral-committee`
- **2011-03-23** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2011-03-23** Rec From House
- **2011-03-22** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2011-03-17** Placed On Cal For 3/22/2011
- **2011-03-17** Withdrawn From Cal
- **2011-03-17** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2011-03-16** Placed On Cal For 3/17/2011
- **2011-03-16** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2011-03-16** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-02-21** Re-ref Com On Finance `referral-committee`
- **2011-02-21** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-02-02** Ref To Com On Government `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/2a5d809b-c9a0-4772-a71b-9abf969ce002`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).