---
type: "Bill"
title: "Spencer/Amend Property Description."
description: "Spencer/Amend Property Description."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2009"
identifier: "HB 986"
citation: "North Carolina HB 986 (2009)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ANNEXATION", "COUNTIES", "LOCAL", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "MUNICIPALITIES", "PLANNING & ZONING", "RATIFIED", "SESSION LAWS", "TRANSPORTATION", "TRANSPORTATION DEPT.", "REP. COATES", "ROWAN COUNTY", "SPENCER", "CHAPTERED"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Coates"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 17
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2009-04-01"
last_action: "2009-06-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f52fc04d-cad5-4350-b253-524e4c6bf45c"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2009&BillID=H986&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "763d6a1f14de109a7d84d1ea44333ccca2e28a381bb45a97eeb9f8a24874c96a"
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 986 (2009) — Spencer/Amend Property Description.

## 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/2009/Bills/House/PDF/H986v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/House/PDF/H986v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/House/PDF/H986v2.pdf)
4. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/House/PDF/H986v3.pdf)
5. **SL2009-158** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/House/PDF/H986v4.pdf)

## Votes

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

## Sponsors

- Coates — primary (person)
- Steen — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2009-06-23** Ch. SL 2009-158 `became-law`
- **2009-06-23** Ratified
- **2009-06-22** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2009-06-18** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2009-06-17** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2009-05-05** Ref To Com On Finance `referral-committee`
- **2009-05-05** Rec From House
- **2009-05-04** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2009-04-30** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2009-04-29** Placed On Cal For 4/30/2009
- **2009-04-29** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2009-04-29** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2009-04-15** Re-ref Com On Finance `referral-committee`
- **2009-04-15** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2009-04-02** Ref to the Com on Local Government I, if favorable, Finance `referral-committee`
- **2009-04-02** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2009-04-01** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f52fc04d-cad5-4350-b253-524e4c6bf45c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).