---
type: "Bill"
title: "Mooresville Deannexation."
description: "Mooresville Deannexation."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2011"
identifier: "SB 876"
citation: "North Carolina SB 876 (2011)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ANNEXATION", "COUNTIES", "LOCAL", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "MUNICIPALITIES", "PLANNING & ZONING", "RATIFIED", "IREDELL COUNTY", "MOORESVILLE", "CHAPTERED", "SEN. CARNEY"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 4
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2012-05-23"
last_action: "2012-07-02"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9091c107-9500-4f71-b5ec-0c7f84af9293"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2011&BillID=S876&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "a91b8a305f0996532e5fb2a02035c45505baf67d6e7cab25cfd63d3b3b7c3205"
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 876 (2011) — Mooresville Deannexation.

## 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/S876v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/Senate/PDF/S876v1.pdf)
3. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/Senate/PDF/S876v2.pdf)
4. **SL2012-137** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/Senate/PDF/S876v3.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **119–0** (pass) · lower
- Second Reading — **113–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Carney — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2012-07-02** Ch. SL 2012-137 `became-law`
- **2012-07-02** Ratified
- **2012-07-02** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2012-06-28** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2012-06-28** Placed On Cal For 6/28/2012
- **2012-06-28** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2012-06-28** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2012-06-26** Re-ref Com On Finance `referral-committee`
- **2012-06-26** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2012-06-25** Ref To Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2012-06-25** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2012-06-25** Rec From Senate
- **2012-06-25** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2012-06-21** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2012-06-20** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2012-06-19** Re-ref Com On Finance `referral-committee`
- **2012-06-19** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2012-05-24** Ref To Com On State and Local Government `referral-committee`
- **2012-05-24** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2012-05-23** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9091c107-9500-4f71-b5ec-0c7f84af9293`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).