---
type: "Bill"
title: "China Grove Satellite Annexation."
description: "China Grove Satellite Annexation."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 80"
citation: "North Carolina SB 80 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ANNEXATION", "COUNTIES", "LOCAL", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "MUNICIPALITIES", "PLANNING & ZONING", "RATIFIED", "TITLE CHANGE", "ROWAN COUNTY", "CHAPTERED", "CHINA GROVE", "EAST SPENCER"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 6
action_count: 44
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-02-19"
last_action: "2019-06-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/00421d3d-9f5b-454d-86ac-b38a8f8691d3"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2019&BillID=S80&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "bfb06e457931bcbf0fde20b9a42db0414f8076dd59d792531fbe4112fd2f188e"
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 80 (2019) — China Grove Satellite Annexation.

## 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/S80v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2019/Bills/Senate/PDF/S80v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2019/Bills/Senate/PDF/S80v2.pdf)
4. **Edition 3** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2019/Bills/Senate/PDF/S80v3.pdf)
5. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2019/Bills/Senate/PDF/S80v4.pdf)
6. **SL 2019-58** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2019/Bills/Senate/PDF/S80v5.pdf)

## Votes

- Motion 9 To Concur — **44–0** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **106–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Ford — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-06-26** Ch. SL 2019-58 `became-law`
- **2019-06-26** Ratified
- **2019-06-25** Ordered Enrolled
- **2019-06-25** Concurred In H Com Sub `amendment-passage`
- **2019-06-24** Regular Message Received For Concurrence in H Com Sub
- **2019-06-21** Regular Message Sent To Senate
- **2019-06-20** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-06-19** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2019-06-19** Added to Calendar
- **2019-06-19** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2019-06-19** Reptd Fav Com Sub 2 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-06-04** Re-ref Com On Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-06-04** Withdrawn From Cal
- **2019-05-29** Placed On Cal For 06/04/2019
- **2019-05-29** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2019-05-28** Placed On Cal For 05/29/2019
- **2019-05-28** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2019-05-28** Ruled Material
- **2019-05-28** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-05-22** Re-ref Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-22** Withdrawn From Com
- **2019-05-22** Serial Referral To Finance Stricken
- **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
- **2019-04-10** Re-ref Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-10** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-27** Re-ref Com On Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-27** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-21** Ref to the Com on State and Local Government, if favorable, Finance, if favorable, Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-21** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2019-03-20** Regular Message Received From Senate
- **2019-03-20** Regular Message Sent To House
- **2019-03-19** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-03-18** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2019-03-14** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-12** Re-ref Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-12** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-05** Re-ref Com On Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-05** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-21** 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`
- **2019-02-21** Withdrawn From Com
- **2019-02-20** Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-20** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2019-02-19** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/00421d3d-9f5b-454d-86ac-b38a8f8691d3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).