---
type: "Bill"
title: "Buncombe County Commission Districts."
description: "Buncombe County Commission Districts."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2011"
identifier: "HB 471"
citation: "North Carolina HB 471 (2011)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["COUNTIES", "COUNTY COMMISSIONERS", "ELECTIONS", "LOCAL", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "RATIFIED", "SESSION LAWS", "BUNCOMBE COUNTY", "CHAPTERED", "REP. MOFFITT"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 4
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2011-03-24"
last_action: "2011-05-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c2ef7fba-68f0-430c-b4ae-8942a3329bb6"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2011&BillID=H471&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "e22e6c662090b39347cb60562becbc8f03ea79af614a212ea7dbce9cdc29c908"
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 471 (2011) — Buncombe County Commission 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/H471v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/House/PDF/H471v1.pdf)
3. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/House/PDF/H471v2.pdf)
4. **SL2011-81** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/House/PDF/H471v3.pdf)

## Votes

- Amendment 1 — **19–30** (fail) · upper
- Second Reading — **30–19** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Moffitt — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2011-05-19** Ch. SL 2011-81 `became-law`
- **2011-05-19** Ratified
- **2011-05-18** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2011-05-18** Amend Failed 1 `amendment-failure`
- **2011-05-17** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-05-03** Ref To Com On State and Local Government `referral-committee`
- **2011-05-03** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2011-05-03** Rec From House
- **2011-05-02** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2011-05-02** Amend Failed 2 `amendment-failure`
- **2011-05-02** Amend Failed 1 `amendment-failure`
- **2011-04-28** Postponed To 5/2/2011
- **2011-04-26** Placed On Cal For 4/28/2011
- **2011-04-21** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2011-04-21** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-03-28** Ref To Com On Government `referral-committee`
- **2011-03-28** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2011-03-24** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c2ef7fba-68f0-430c-b4ae-8942a3329bb6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).