---
type: "Bill"
title: "Morehead City/Beaufort Boundary."
description: "Morehead City/Beaufort Boundary."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2011"
identifier: "HB 565"
citation: "North Carolina HB 565 (2011)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ANNEXATION", "COUNTIES", "EXTRATERRITORIALITY", "LOCAL", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "MUNICIPALITIES", "PLANNING & ZONING", "RATIFIED", "CARTERET COUNTY", "MOREHEAD CITY", "CHAPTERED", "BEAUFORT", "REP. MCELRAFT"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 4
action_count: 22
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2011-03-30"
last_action: "2011-06-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a0edda97-96e2-49a4-9a8f-13dd170f4dec"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2011&BillID=H565&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "dfef34e8d7efb0b4d07da31cc4285d922a2c2531a6bf036fbc191fc9c4cc39c5"
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 565 (2011) — Morehead City/Beaufort Boundary.

## 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/H565v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/House/PDF/H565v1.pdf)
3. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/House/PDF/H565v2.pdf)
4. **SL2011-179** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/House/PDF/H565v3.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **41–0** (pass) · upper
- Second Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- McElraft — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2011-06-18** Ch. SL 2011-179 `became-law`
- **2011-06-18** Ratified
- **2011-06-17** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2011-06-16** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2011-06-16** Placed On Cal For 6/16/2011
- **2011-06-16** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-06-16** Re-ref Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2011-06-16** Withdrawn From Com
- **2011-05-18** Ref To Com On State and Local Government `referral-committee`
- **2011-05-18** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2011-05-18** Rec From House
- **2011-05-17** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2011-05-16** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2011-05-12** Postponed To 5/16/2011
- **2011-05-11** Placed On Cal For 5/12/2011
- **2011-05-11** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2011-05-11** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-04-21** Re-ref Com On Finance `referral-committee`
- **2011-04-21** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-03-31** Ref to the Com on Government, if favorable, Finance `referral-committee`
- **2011-03-31** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2011-03-30** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a0edda97-96e2-49a4-9a8f-13dd170f4dec`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).