---
type: "Bill"
title: "Asheville ETJ and Annexation."
description: "Asheville ETJ and Annexation."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2013"
identifier: "HB 224"
citation: "North Carolina HB 224 (2013)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ANNEXATION", "COUNTIES", "EXTRATERRITORIALITY", "LOCAL", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "MUNICIPALITIES", "PLANNING & ZONING", "RATIFIED", "BUNCOMBE COUNTY", "ASHEVILLE", "CHAPTERED"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Moffitt"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 24
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2013-03-05"
last_action: "2013-04-17"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4261ed73-9e67-41a6-8f0f-c218263cf41a"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2013&BillID=H224&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "386401a114935214573df0cb8a0020cdcf8f0714d2ee3bf41fa37c678e950deb"
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 224 (2013) — Asheville ETJ and Annexation.

## 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/2013/Bills/House/PDF/H224v0.pdf)
2. **A1: ATM-29-V-1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://webservices.ncleg.net/ViewBillDocument/2013/2910/0/H224-ATM-29-V-1)
3. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2013/Bills/House/PDF/H224v1.pdf)
4. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2013/Bills/House/PDF/H224v2.pdf)
5. **Edition 3** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2013/Bills/House/PDF/H224v3.pdf)
6. **Edition 4** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2013/Bills/House/PDF/H224v4.pdf)
7. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2013/Bills/House/PDF/H224v5.pdf)
8. **SL2013-30** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2013/Bills/House/PDF/H224v6.pdf)

## Votes

- Amendment 1 — **15–32** (fail) · upper
- Second Reading — **33–14** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Moffitt — primary (person)
- Ford — cosponsor (person)
- Ramsey — cosponsor (person)
- Starnes — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2013-04-17** Ch. SL 2013-30 `became-law`
- **2013-04-17** Ratified
- **2013-04-16** Ordered Enrolled
- **2013-04-16** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2013-04-16** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2013-04-16** Amend Failed A1 `amendment-failure`
- **2013-04-10** Placed On Cal For 04/16/2013
- **2013-04-10** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2013-04-04** Ref To Com On State and Local Government `referral-committee`
- **2013-04-04** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2013-04-04** Rec From House
- **2013-04-03** Ordered Engrossed
- **2013-04-03** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2013-04-03** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2013-04-03** Amend Failed A2 `amendment-failure`
- **2013-04-03** Amend Adopted A1 `amendment-passage`
- **2013-04-02** Placed On Cal For 04/03/2013
- **2013-04-02** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2013-04-02** Reptd Fav Com Sub 2 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2013-03-18** Re-ref Com On Finance `referral-committee`
- **2013-03-18** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2013-03-06** Ref to the Com on Government, if favorable, Finance `referral-committee`
- **2013-03-06** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2013-03-05** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4261ed73-9e67-41a6-8f0f-c218263cf41a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).