House committee substitute to the 2nd edition makes the following changes.

Limits the scope of the act to counties with a population of 150,000 residents or more. 

Changes the text of proposed GS 160A-58.2, subsection (c), requiring that the city council direct their planning department to consult with the county planning department with jurisdiction over the area to be annexed before a public hearing under the statute with regards to school capacity. Regarding the three criteria of proposed annexation areas which together trigger the requirements of new subsection (c), adds as an alternative to the first prong that the area be agricultural land, forestland, or horticultural land, for the area to have instead been enrolled in present use value taxation within the previous three calendar years.