---
type: "Bill"
title: "Revise Voluntary Agricultural District Laws."
description: "Revise Voluntary Agricultural District Laws."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 126"
citation: "North Carolina HB 126 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["AGRICULTURE; EMINENT DOMAIN; LOCAL GOVERNMENT; PLANNING & ZONING; PRESENTED; PROPERTY; PUBLIC; RATIFIED; CHAPTERED; AGRICULTURAL LAND"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dixon"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 28
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-02-13"
last_action: "2025-06-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/27b2d51e-71e7-4972-a8b5-b014b57fe12a"
source_url: "https://www.ncleg.gov/BillLookUp/2025/H126"
source_hash: "f4be65e6036e02a9873a632d59d8804093de32eb5ec1d377932f75a778940c2c"
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 126 (2025) — Revise Voluntary Agricultural District Laws.

## 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/H126v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H126v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H126v2.pdf)
4. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H126v3.pdf)
5. **SL 2025-12** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H126v4.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **115–0** (pass) · lower
- Second Reading — **44–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Dixon — primary (person)
- Ager — cosponsor (person)
- Balkcom — cosponsor (person)
- Biggs — cosponsor (person)
- Branson — cosponsor (person)
- Cairns — cosponsor (person)
- Eddins — cosponsor (person)
- G. Brown — cosponsor (person)
- Harrison — cosponsor (person)
- Humphrey — cosponsor (person)
- Jeffers — cosponsor (person)
- Majeed — cosponsor (person)
- McNeely — cosponsor (person)
- N. Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- Riddell — cosponsor (person)
- Ward — cosponsor (person)
- Warren — cosponsor (person)
- White — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-06-20** Ch. SL 2025-12 `became-law`
- **2025-06-20** Signed by Gov. 6/20/2025 `executive-signature`
- **2025-06-13** Pres. To Gov. 6/13/2025 `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-12** Ratified
- **2025-06-11** Ordered Enrolled
- **2025-06-11** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-06-11** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-06-10** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-06-03** Re-ref Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2025-06-03** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-06-02** Re-ref to Agriculture, Energy, and Environment. If fav, re-ref to Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2025-06-02** Withdrawn From Com
- **2025-04-30** Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-30** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-04-30** Regular Message Received From House
- **2025-04-30** Regular Message Sent To Senate
- **2025-04-29** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-29** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-04-15** Placed On Cal For 04/29/2025
- **2025-04-15** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2025-04-15** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-10** Re-ref Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-10** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-26** Re-ref Com On Housing and Development `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-26** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-17** Ref to the Com on Agriculture and Environment, if favorable, Housing and Development, if favorable, Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-17** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-02-13** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/27b2d51e-71e7-4972-a8b5-b014b57fe12a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).