---
type: "Bill"
title: "Public Enterprise Customer Billing Privacy."
description: "Public Enterprise Customer Billing Privacy."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2001"
identifier: "SB 774"
citation: "North Carolina SB 774 (2001)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["BLANK BILL", "COMMERCE", "CONFIDENTIALITY", "CONSUMER PROTECTION", "PRESENTED", "PRIVACY", "PUBLIC", "PUBLIC RECORDS", "RATIFIED", "TITLE CHANGE", "SEN. RAND", "RECORDS", "CHAPTERED"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 5
action_count: 32
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2001-03-29"
last_action: "2001-11-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a86243eb-8d27-4402-9fdb-e25ee5335a02"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2001&BillID=S774&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "11c62ce2be0297138210478dd02411d3b4a58c48b97e987b9d9e2564cc7c7ecd"
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 SB 774 (2001) — Public Enterprise Customer Billing Privacy.

## Version chain

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

1. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2001/Bills/Senate/PDF/S774v1.pdf)
2. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2001/Bills/Senate/PDF/S774v2.pdf)
3. **Edition 3** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2001/Bills/Senate/PDF/S774v3.pdf)
4. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2001/Bills/Senate/PDF/S774v4.pdf)
5. **SL 2001-473** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2001/Bills/Senate/PDF/S774v5.pdf)

## Votes

- C Rpt Adopt — **108–0** (pass) · lower
- Conference Rpt\Motion 7\To Adopt — **43–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Albertson — cosponsor (person)
- Ballance — cosponsor (person)
- Carter — cosponsor (person)
- Clodfelter — cosponsor (person)
- Cunningham — cosponsor (person)
- Dalton — cosponsor (person)
- Dannelly — cosponsor (person)
- Garrou — cosponsor (person)
- Gulley — cosponsor (person)
- Harris — cosponsor (person)
- Kerr — cosponsor (person)
- Kinnaird — cosponsor (person)
- Lee — cosponsor (person)
- Lucas — cosponsor (person)
- Metcalf — cosponsor (person)
- Miller, B — cosponsor (person)
- Plyler — cosponsor (person)
- Purcell — cosponsor (person)
- Rand — cosponsor (person)
- Reeves — cosponsor (person)
- Robinson — cosponsor (person)
- Shaw of Cumberland — cosponsor (person)
- Soles — cosponsor (person)
- Swindell — cosponsor (person)
- Thomas — cosponsor (person)
- Warren — cosponsor (person)
- Weinstein — cosponsor (person)
- Wellons — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2001-11-29** Ch. SL 2001-473 `became-law`
- **2001-11-29** Signed By Gov. 11/29/2001 `executive-signature`
- **2001-11-23** Pres. To Gov. 11/21/2001 `executive-receipt`
- **2001-11-20** Ratified
- **2001-11-15** Conf Report Adopted
- **2001-11-08** Placed On Cal For 11/15/2001
- **2001-11-08** Conf Com Reported
- **2001-11-06** Conf Report Adopted
- **2001-11-06** Placed On Cal For 11/6/2001
- **2001-11-06** Conf Com Reported
- **2001-06-12** Conf Com Appointed
- **2001-06-11** Conf Com Appointed
- **2001-06-05** Failed Concur In Com Sub
- **2001-06-04** Placed On Cal For 6/5/2001
- **2001-06-04** Rec To Concur H Com Sub
- **2001-05-31** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2001-05-30** Placed On Cal For 5/31/2001
- **2001-05-29** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2001-05-29** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2001-05-17** Re-ref Com On Judiciary I `referral-committee`
- **2001-05-17** Withdrawn From Comm
- **2001-05-10** Re-ref Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2001-05-10** Withdrawn From Cal
- **2001-05-08** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2001-05-08** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2001-04-26** Ref To Com On Judiciary I `referral-committee`
- **2001-04-26** Rec From Senate
- **2001-04-25** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2001-04-24** Com Substitute Adopted
- **2001-04-24** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2001-04-02** Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2001-03-29** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a86243eb-8d27-4402-9fdb-e25ee5335a02`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).