---
type: "Bill"
title: "City of Greensboro/Deannexations."
description: "City of Greensboro/Deannexations."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 226"
citation: "North Carolina HB 226 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ANNEXATION; COUNTIES; LOCAL; LOCAL GOVERNMENT; MUNICIPALITIES; PLANNING & ZONING; RATIFIED; GUILFORD COUNTY; GREENSBORO; CHAPTERED"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 5
action_count: 28
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-02-26"
last_action: "2025-06-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e3c71cec-a6ae-4d0b-8fcd-8f2f1b3d2fa8"
source_url: "https://www.ncleg.gov/BillLookUp/2025/H226"
source_hash: "3efa6ac251b573d763468fc80170a4bcffff4768a694cf4901b6319ac939f9cd"
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 226 (2025) — City of Greensboro/Deannexations.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Filed** (filed) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H226v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H226v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H226v2.pdf)
4. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H226v3.pdf)
5. **SL 2025-31** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H226v4.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **42–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Blust — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-06-30** Ch. SL 2025-31 `became-law`
- **2025-06-30** Ratified
- **2025-06-26** Ordered Enrolled
- **2025-06-26** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-06-25** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-06-25** Placed on Today's Calendar
- **2025-06-25** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-06-23** Re-ref Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2025-06-23** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-06-20** Re-ref to Finance. If fav, re-ref to Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2025-06-20** Withdrawn From Com
- **2025-06-18** Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2025-06-18** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-06-18** Special Message Received From House
- **2025-06-18** Special Message Sent To Senate
- **2025-06-17** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-06-11** Placed On Cal For 06/17/2025
- **2025-06-11** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-06-10** Placed On Cal For 06/11/2025
- **2025-06-10** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2025-06-10** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-06-10** Re-ref Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2025-06-10** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-15** Re-ref Com On Finance `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-15** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-27** Ref to the Com on State and Local Government, if favorable, Finance, if favorable, Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-27** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-02-26** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e3c71cec-a6ae-4d0b-8fcd-8f2f1b3d2fa8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).