---
type: "Bill"
title: "Various Localities Energy Dev. Incentives."
description: "Various Localities Energy Dev. Incentives."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2009"
identifier: "SB 52"
citation: "North Carolina SB 52 (2009)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["COUNTIES", "ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT", "ELECTRICITY", "INFRASTRUCTURE", "LOCAL", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "MUNICIPALITIES", "PRESENTED", "PUBLIC", "RATIFIED", "SESSION LAWS", "TITLE CHANGE", "UTILITIES", "SEN. SOLES", "BRUNSWICK COUNTY", "NEW HANOVER COUNTY", "PENDER COUNTY", "WAKE COUNTY", "GUILFORD COUNTY", "GREENSBORO", "RALEIGH", "CHAPTERED"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 8
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2009-02-03"
last_action: "2009-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4ea92283-6114-4071-af87-0df6546e58f7"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2009&BillID=S52&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "357a7d06204de7c2442bd5ec44299d5373ff02b08962f6d25d1b8222f076738a"
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 52 (2009) — Various Localities Energy Dev. Incentives.

## 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/Senate/PDF/S52v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/Senate/PDF/S52v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/Senate/PDF/S52v2.pdf)
4. **Edition 3** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/Senate/PDF/S52v3.pdf)
5. **Edition 4** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/Senate/PDF/S52v4.pdf)
6. **Edition 5** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/Senate/PDF/S52v5.pdf)
7. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/Senate/PDF/S52v6.pdf)
8. **SL2009-95** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/Senate/PDF/S52v7.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **110–5** (pass) · lower
- Motion 8\To Concur — **49–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Soles — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2009-06-11** Ch. SL 2009-95 `became-law`
- **2009-06-11** Signed By Gov. 6/11/2009 `executive-signature`
- **2009-06-04** Pres. To Gov. 6/4/2009 `executive-receipt`
- **2009-06-03** Ratified
- **2009-06-02** Concurred In H/com Sub `amendment-passage`
- **2009-06-01** Placed On Cal For 6/2/2009
- **2009-06-01** Rec To Concur H Com Sub
- **2009-05-28** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2009-05-27** Placed On Cal For 5/28/2009
- **2009-05-27** Reptd Fav Com Sub 2 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2009-03-26** Re-ref Com On Finance `referral-committee`
- **2009-03-26** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2009-03-18** Ref to the Com on Energy and Energy Efficiency, if favorable, Finance `referral-committee`
- **2009-03-18** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2009-03-16** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2009-03-12** Com Substitute Adopted
- **2009-03-12** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2009-02-04** Ref To Com On Finance `referral-committee`
- **2009-02-03** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4ea92283-6114-4071-af87-0df6546e58f7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).