---
type: "Bill"
title: "City of Sanford/Town of Beaufort/Vol Annex."
description: "City of Sanford/Town of Beaufort/Vol Annex."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 285"
citation: "North Carolina HB 285 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ANNEXATION", "COUNTIES", "LOCAL", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "MUNICIPALITIES", "PLANNING & ZONING", "RATIFIED", "TITLE CHANGE", "CARTERET COUNTY", "LEE COUNTY", "SANFORD", "CHAPTERED", "BEAUFORT"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 5
action_count: 38
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-03-06"
last_action: "2019-07-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/275f4b63-6a7e-47f9-9831-c99125f4b694"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2019&BillID=H285&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "ab67cd29e47311276c2bdc984a839347e0d9cc9dbee5c043d18b488f7616eb78"
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 285 (2019) — City of Sanford/Town of Beaufort/Vol Annex.

## 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/2019/Bills/House/PDF/H285v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2019/Bills/House/PDF/H285v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2019/Bills/House/PDF/H285v2.pdf)
4. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2019/Bills/House/PDF/H285v3.pdf)
5. **SL 2019-105** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2019/Bills/House/PDF/H285v4.pdf)

## Votes

- R3 Ruled Mat'l M11 Concur — **111–3** (pass) · lower
- R2 Ruled Mat'l M11 Concur — **112–3** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Sauls — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-07-10** Ch. SL 2019-105 `became-law`
- **2019-07-10** Ratified
- **2019-07-09** Ordered Enrolled
- **2019-07-09** Concurred On 3rd Reading
- **2019-07-08** Concurred On 2nd Reading
- **2019-07-04** Placed On Cal For 07/08/2019
- **2019-07-04** Ruled Material
- **2019-07-04** Cal Pursuant 36(b)
- **2019-07-02** Regular Message Received For Concurrence in S Com Sub
- **2019-07-02** Regular Message Sent To House
- **2019-07-01** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-06-27** Placed On Cal For 07/01/2019
- **2019-06-27** Withdrawn From Cal
- **2019-06-26** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2019-06-25** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-06-18** Re-ref Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2019-06-18** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-06-04** Re-ref Com On Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-06-04** Com Substitute Adopted
- **2019-06-04** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-05-24** Re-ref to State and Local Government. If fav, re-ref to Finance. If fav, re-ref to Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-24** Withdrawn From Com
- **2019-04-08** Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-08** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2019-04-08** Regular Message Received From House
- **2019-04-05** Regular Message Sent To Senate
- **2019-04-04** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-04-03** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2019-04-01** Placed On Cal For 04/03/2019
- **2019-04-01** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2019-04-01** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-27** Re-ref Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-27** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-13** Re-ref Com On Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-13** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-07** Ref to the Com on State and Local Government, if favorable, Finance, if favorable, Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-07** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2019-03-06** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/275f4b63-6a7e-47f9-9831-c99125f4b694`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).