---
type: "Bill"
title: "Town of Weldon/Deannexation."
description: "Town of Weldon/Deannexation."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2015"
identifier: "HB 426"
citation: "North Carolina HB 426 (2015)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ANNEXATION", "COUNTIES", "LOCAL", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "MUNICIPALITIES", "PLANNING & ZONING", "RATIFIED", "HALIFAX COUNTY", "WELDON", "CHAPTERED"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 4
action_count: 22
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2015-03-31"
last_action: "2015-06-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/27da4a47-6862-442c-8603-63cd3212db63"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2015&BillID=H426&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "6510dd4137147561906e80170f365be95f39cf12816e07729471c53a9f12821a"
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 426 (2015) — Town of Weldon/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/2015/Bills/House/PDF/H426v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2015/Bills/House/PDF/H426v1.pdf)
3. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2015/Bills/House/PDF/H426v2.pdf)
4. **SL2015-132** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2015/Bills/House/PDF/H426v3.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **48–0** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **43–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Wray — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2015-06-30** Ch. SL 2015-132 `became-law`
- **2015-06-30** Ratified
- **2015-06-30** Ordered Enrolled
- **2015-06-30** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2015-06-29** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2015-06-25** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2015-06-24** Re-ref Com On Finance `referral-committee`
- **2015-06-24** Withdrawn From Com
- **2015-06-15** Ref to State and Local Government. If fav, re-ref to Finance `referral-committee`
- **2015-06-15** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2015-06-15** Regular Message Received From House
- **2015-06-11** Regular Message Sent To Senate
- **2015-06-11** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2015-06-10** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2015-06-09** Placed On Cal For 06/10/2015
- **2015-06-04** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2015-06-04** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2015-05-07** Re-ref Com On Finance `referral-committee`
- **2015-05-07** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2015-04-01** Ref to the Com on Local Government, if favorable, Finance `referral-committee`
- **2015-04-01** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2015-03-31** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/27da4a47-6862-442c-8603-63cd3212db63`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).