---
type: "Bill"
title: "Sanford-Lee County Airport Authority Changes."
description: "Sanford-Lee County Airport Authority Changes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 426"
citation: "North Carolina HB 426 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["AIRPORTS", "AUTHORITIES", "AVIATION", "CONTRACTS", "COUNTIES", "LOCAL", "MEMBERSHIP", "MUNICIPALITIES", "RATIFIED", "LEE COUNTY", "SANFORD", "CHAPTERED", "AIRPORT AUTHORITIES"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Sauls"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 23
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2017-03-21"
last_action: "2017-06-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5e6a95e0-f1cb-43ae-90f9-82996154bcc9"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2017&BillID=H426&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "8e2f2f3c497a6b1888d62108d6eb259d0ef90fcf482c0d33851d44c2717f3abb"
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 (2017) — Sanford-Lee County Airport Authority Changes.

## 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/2017/Bills/House/PDF/H426v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2017/Bills/House/PDF/H426v1.pdf)
3. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2017/Bills/House/PDF/H426v2.pdf)
4. **SL 2017-55** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2017/Bills/House/PDF/H426v3.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Sauls — primary (person)
- C. Graham — cosponsor (person)
- Floyd — cosponsor (person)
- Reives — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-06-27** Ch. SL 2017-55 `became-law`
- **2017-06-27** Ratified
- **2017-06-26** Ordered Enrolled
- **2017-06-26** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2017-06-26** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2017-06-22** Placed On Cal For 06/26/2017
- **2017-06-22** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-06-20** Re-ref Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2017-06-20** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-06-15** Re-ref to State and Local Government. If fav, re-ref to Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2017-06-15** Withdrawn From Com
- **2017-04-06** Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2017-04-06** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2017-04-06** Regular Message Received From House
- **2017-04-06** Regular Message Sent To Senate
- **2017-04-05** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2017-04-05** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2017-04-04** Placed On Cal For 04/05/2017
- **2017-04-04** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2017-04-04** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-22** Ref To Com On State and Local Government I `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-22** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2017-03-21** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5e6a95e0-f1cb-43ae-90f9-82996154bcc9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).