---
type: "Bill"
title: "Claremont Deannexation."
description: "Claremont Deannexation."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 4"
citation: "North Carolina HB 4 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ANNEXATION", "COUNTIES", "LOCAL", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "MUNICIPALITIES", "PLANNING & ZONING", "RATIFIED", "CATAWBA COUNTY", "CHAPTERED", "CLAREMONT"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 4
action_count: 29
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-01-30"
last_action: "2019-07-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/88485499-9c24-49ca-bbad-988a130e4f5f"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2019&BillID=H4&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "db6c70ea652019a7ba3da47f490e43269e87d05d4cfe1b7beba23ba5ae9d50c3"
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 4 (2019) — Claremont 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/2019/Bills/House/PDF/H4v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2019/Bills/House/PDF/H4v1.pdf)
3. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2019/Bills/House/PDF/H4v2.pdf)
4. **SL 2019-93** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2019/Bills/House/PDF/H4v3.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **48–0** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Adams — cosponsor (person)
- Setzer — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-07-08** Ch. SL 2019-93 `became-law`
- **2019-07-08** Ratified
- **2019-07-01** Ordered Enrolled
- **2019-07-01** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-06-27** Placed On Cal For 07/01/2019
- **2019-06-27** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2019-06-26** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-06-25** Re-ref Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2019-06-25** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-06-18** Re-ref Com On Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-06-18** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-06-12** 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`
- **2019-06-12** Withdrawn From Com
- **2019-03-11** Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-11** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2019-03-11** Regular Message Received From House
- **2019-03-08** Regular Message Sent To Senate
- **2019-03-07** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-03-06** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2019-03-04** Placed On Cal For 03/06/2019
- **2019-03-04** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2019-03-04** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-27** Re-ref Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-27** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-06** Re-ref Com On Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-06** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-01-31** Ref to the Com on State and Local Government, if favorable, Finance, if favorable, Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-31** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2019-01-30** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/88485499-9c24-49ca-bbad-988a130e4f5f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).