---
type: "Bill"
title: "Cary Annexation."
description: "Cary Annexation."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2015"
identifier: "HB 73"
citation: "North Carolina HB 73 (2015)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ANNEXATION", "COUNTIES", "LOCAL", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "MUNICIPALITIES", "PLANNING & ZONING", "RATIFIED", "WAKE COUNTY", "CARY", "CHAPTERED", "APEX"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 5
action_count: 25
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2015-02-11"
last_action: "2015-06-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cfcbc630-9024-4802-9645-c2f5033944ee"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2015&BillID=H73&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "11be39ccbcb421f8d71f20dc6f4a31ddbbb85976eb069243fbce731a31845403"
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 73 (2015) — Cary 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/2015/Bills/House/PDF/H73v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2015/Bills/House/PDF/H73v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2015/Bills/House/PDF/H73v2.pdf)
4. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2015/Bills/House/PDF/H73v3.pdf)
5. **SL2015-77** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2015/Bills/House/PDF/H73v4.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper
- Second Reading — **48–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Adcock — cosponsor (person)
- Dollar — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2015-06-15** Ch. SL 2015-77 `became-law`
- **2015-06-15** Ratified
- **2015-06-11** Ordered Enrolled
- **2015-06-11** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2015-06-10** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2015-06-09** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2015-05-12** Re-ref Com On Finance `referral-committee`
- **2015-05-12** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2015-05-06** Sequential Referral To Finance Added
- **2015-05-05** Re-ref Com On State and Local Government `referral-committee`
- **2015-05-05** Withdrawn From Com
- **2015-03-19** Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2015-03-19** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2015-03-19** Regular Message Received From House
- **2015-03-19** Regular Message Sent To Senate
- **2015-03-18** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2015-03-17** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2015-03-16** Placed On Cal For 03/17/2015
- **2015-03-16** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2015-03-16** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2015-03-09** Re-ref Com On Finance `referral-committee`
- **2015-03-09** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2015-02-12** Ref to the Com on Local Government, if favorable, Finance `referral-committee`
- **2015-02-12** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2015-02-11** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/cfcbc630-9024-4802-9645-c2f5033944ee`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).