---
type: "Bill"
title: "West Jefferson/Saluda Satellite Annexations."
description: "West Jefferson/Saluda Satellite Annexations."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 194"
citation: "North Carolina SB 194 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ANNEXATION", "COUNTIES", "LOCAL", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "MUNICIPALITIES", "PLANNING & ZONING", "RATIFIED", "TITLE CHANGE", "POLK COUNTY", "CASWELL COUNTY", "ASHE COUNTY", "WEST JEFFERSON", "CHAPTERED", "SALUDA", "YANCEYVILLE"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 5
action_count: 46
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-03-06"
last_action: "2019-07-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bdde6652-e358-4c0b-a28e-e93fb8e1fe7c"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2019&BillID=S194&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "775ececcc1e3630dd9b1c16561cce59058582a7d93dd3810e3b5e162008975ac"
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 SB 194 (2019) — West Jefferson/Saluda Satellite Annexations.

## 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/Senate/PDF/S194v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2019/Bills/Senate/PDF/S194v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2019/Bills/Senate/PDF/S194v2.pdf)
4. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2019/Bills/Senate/PDF/S194v3.pdf)
5. **SL 2019-160** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2019/Bills/Senate/PDF/S194v4.pdf)

## Votes

- Conference Rpt Third Reading For Adoption — **45–0** (pass) · upper
- R3 Ruled Mat'l C RPT Adoption — **110–3** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Ballard — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-07-24** Ch. SL 2019-160 `became-law`
- **2019-07-24** Ratified
- **2019-07-23** Ordered Enrolled
- **2019-07-23** Conf Report Adopted 3rd
- **2019-07-23** Conf Report Adopted 3rd
- **2019-07-22** Conf Report Adopted 2nd
- **2019-07-22** Conf Report Passed 2nd
- **2019-07-18** Held As Material
- **2019-07-18** Conf Com Reported
- **2019-07-17** Placed On Cal For 07/22/2019
- **2019-07-17** Cal Pursuant Rule 44(d)
- **2019-07-17** Ruled Material
- **2019-07-17** Conf Com Reported
- **2019-07-16** Conf Com Appointed
- **2019-07-15** Conf Com Appointed
- **2019-07-15** Failed Concur In H Com Sub
- **2019-07-11** Regular Message Received For Concurrence in H Com Sub
- **2019-07-11** Regular Message Sent To Senate
- **2019-07-10** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-07-09** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2019-07-08** Placed On Cal For 07/09/2019
- **2019-07-08** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2019-07-08** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-06-26** Re-ref Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2019-06-26** Ruled Material
- **2019-06-26** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-06-12** Re-ref Com On Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-06-12** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-05-21** Re-ref to the Com on State and Local Government, if favorable, Finance, if favorable, Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-21** Withdrawn From Com
- **2019-04-25** Ref To Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-25** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2019-04-22** Regular Message Received From Senate
- **2019-04-22** Regular Message Sent To House
- **2019-04-18** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-04-17** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2019-04-16** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-10** Re-ref Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-10** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-19** Re-ref Com On Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-19** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-07** 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`
- **2019-03-07** Withdrawn From Com
- **2019-03-07** Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `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/bdde6652-e358-4c0b-a28e-e93fb8e1fe7c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).