---
type: "Bill"
title: "Incorporate Castle Hayne."
description: "Incorporate Castle Hayne."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2011"
identifier: "SB 237"
citation: "North Carolina SB 237 (2011)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CHARTERS", "COUNTIES", "ELECTIONS", "LOCAL", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "MUNICIPAL INCORPORATION", "MUNICIPALITIES", "RATIFIED", "REFERENDUMS & INITIATIVES", "NEW HANOVER COUNTY", "CHAPTERED", "SEN. GOOLSBY", "CASTLE HAYNE"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 5
action_count: 21
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2011-03-07"
last_action: "2011-06-17"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7fd7801e-c82a-4e22-b74f-fbbc07d76da7"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2011&BillID=S237&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "88b12f9d00f7b7e8216f61f20587a38e55c7ce585bd59dab8df0677874313812"
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 SB 237 (2011) — Incorporate Castle Hayne.

## 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/Senate/PDF/S237v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/Senate/PDF/S237v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/Senate/PDF/S237v2.pdf)
4. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/Senate/PDF/S237v3.pdf)
5. **SL2011-166** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/Senate/PDF/S237v4.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **115–0** (pass) · lower
- Motion 9\To Concur — **46–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Goolsby — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2011-06-17** Ch. SL 2011-166 `became-law`
- **2011-06-17** Ratified
- **2011-06-16** Concurred In H Amend `amendment-passage`
- **2011-06-16** Placed On Cal For 6/16/2011
- **2011-06-16** Rec To Concur In H Amend
- **2011-06-15** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2011-06-15** Amend Adopted 1 `amendment-passage`
- **2011-06-14** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2011-06-14** Placed On Cal For 6/14/2011
- **2011-06-14** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2011-06-14** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-06-07** Ref To Com On Finance `referral-committee`
- **2011-06-07** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2011-06-07** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2011-06-06** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2011-06-02** Placed On Cal For 6/6/2011
- **2011-06-02** Com Substitute Adopted
- **2011-06-02** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-03-08** Ref To Com On Finance `referral-committee`
- **2011-03-08** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2011-03-07** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7fd7801e-c82a-4e22-b74f-fbbc07d76da7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).