---
type: "Bill"
title: "Remove Sunset/Municipal Electric Service."
description: "Remove Sunset/Municipal Electric Service."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2003"
identifier: "SB 338"
citation: "North Carolina SB 338 (2003)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["COMMERCE", "CORPORATIONS", "FOR-PROFIT", "ELECTRICITY", "INFRASTRUCTURE", "MUNICIPALITIES", "PRESENTED", "PUBLIC", "RATIFIED", "SESSION LAWS", "UTILITIES", "SUNSETS", "CHAPTERED", "SEN. QUEEN", "SEN. TILLMAN"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 4
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2003-03-06"
last_action: "2003-04-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ddc17799-8a69-44e7-b412-f2f79b58469c"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2003&BillID=S338&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "a3eee338a8a411df3ab546f296003083f6add7ea451378b783059f500278d650"
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 338 (2003) — Remove Sunset/Municipal Electric Service.

## 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/2003/Bills/Senate/PDF/S338v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/Senate/PDF/S338v1.pdf)
3. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/Senate/PDF/S338v2.pdf)
4. **SL 2003-24** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/Senate/PDF/S338v3.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **48–0** (pass) · upper
- Second Reading — **110–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Albertson — cosponsor (person)
- Allran — cosponsor (person)
- Apodaca — cosponsor (person)
- Ballantine — cosponsor (person)
- Berger — cosponsor (person)
- Bingham — cosponsor (person)
- Blake — cosponsor (person)
- Brock — cosponsor (person)
- Carpenter — cosponsor (person)
- Clodfelter — cosponsor (person)
- Dorsett — cosponsor (person)
- Forrester — cosponsor (person)
- Foxx — cosponsor (person)
- Garrou — cosponsor (person)
- Garwood — cosponsor (person)
- Gulley — cosponsor (person)
- Hagan — cosponsor (person)
- Hargett — cosponsor (person)
- Hartsell — cosponsor (person)
- Holloman — cosponsor (person)
- Hoyle — cosponsor (person)
- Jenkins — cosponsor (person)
- Kinnaird — cosponsor (person)
- Lucas — cosponsor (person)
- Moore — cosponsor (person)
- Purcell — cosponsor (person)
- Queen — cosponsor (person)
- Rand — cosponsor (person)
- Reeves — cosponsor (person)
- Shaw — cosponsor (person)
- Shubert — cosponsor (person)
- Sloan — cosponsor (person)
- Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Stevens — cosponsor (person)
- Swindell — cosponsor (person)
- Thomas — cosponsor (person)
- Tillman — cosponsor (person)
- Webster — cosponsor (person)
- Weinstein — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2003-04-28** Ch. SL 2003-24 `became-law`
- **2003-04-28** Signed By Gov. 4/24/2003 `executive-signature`
- **2003-04-15** Pres. To Gov. 4/15/2003 `executive-receipt`
- **2003-04-14** Ratified
- **2003-04-10** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2003-04-09** Placed On Cal For 4/10/2003
- **2003-04-09** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2003-04-09** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2003-03-31** Ref To Com On Public Utilities `referral-committee`
- **2003-03-31** Rec From Senate
- **2003-03-26** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2003-03-25** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2003-03-10** Ref To Com On Commerce `referral-committee`
- **2003-03-06** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ddc17799-8a69-44e7-b412-f2f79b58469c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).