---
type: "Bill"
title: "Raleigh/Wake Forest Boundary."
description: "Raleigh/Wake Forest Boundary."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2011"
identifier: "HB 573"
citation: "North Carolina HB 573 (2011)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ANNEXATION", "COUNTIES", "INFRASTRUCTURE", "LOCAL", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "MUNICIPALITIES", "PLANNING & ZONING", "RATIFIED", "ROADS & HIGHWAYS", "TITLE CHANGE", "TRANSPORTATION", "WAKE COUNTY", "RALEIGH", "WAKE FOREST", "CHAPTERED", "REP. AVILA"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 5
action_count: 21
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2011-03-30"
last_action: "2011-06-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0f6e48f6-b7dc-49f0-896d-70eaeeb55518"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2011&BillID=H573&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "e10d114cc31ab16c532d5e87f0e54384fe2709c60b96b932584d1bab90b2f9d3"
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 573 (2011) — Raleigh/Wake Forest 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/H573v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/House/PDF/H573v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/House/PDF/H573v2.pdf)
4. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/House/PDF/H573v3.pdf)
5. **SL2011-162** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/House/PDF/H573v4.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **49–1** (pass) · upper
- Second Reading — **48–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Avila — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2011-06-16** Ch. SL 2011-162 `became-law`
- **2011-06-16** Ratified
- **2011-06-16** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2011-06-15** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2011-06-15** Placed On Cal For 6/15/2011
- **2011-06-15** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-06-13** Re-ref Com On Finance `referral-committee`
- **2011-06-13** Withdrawn From Com
- **2011-05-24** Ref To Com On State and Local Government `referral-committee`
- **2011-05-24** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2011-05-24** Rec From House
- **2011-05-23** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2011-05-19** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2011-05-18** Placed On Cal For 5/19/2011
- **2011-05-18** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2011-05-18** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-05-12** Re-ref Com On Finance `referral-committee`
- **2011-05-12** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `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/0f6e48f6-b7dc-49f0-896d-70eaeeb55518`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).