---
type: "Bill"
title: "Electric Cities/Uses of Rate Revenue."
description: "Electric Cities/Uses of Rate Revenue."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2011"
identifier: "HB 117"
citation: "North Carolina HB 117 (2011)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["COUNTIES", "ELECTRICITY", "INFRASTRUCTURE", "LOCAL", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "MUNICIPALITIES", "PUBLIC", "RATIFIED", "UTILITIES", "REP. DAUGHTRY", "REP. WAINWRIGHT", "JOHNSTON COUNTY", "CLAYTON", "SELMA", "SMITHFIELD", "CHAPTERED"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Daughtry"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 15
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2011-02-16"
last_action: "2011-06-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e23425ce-b51c-44c0-a63c-e5f91a5fb146"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2011&BillID=H117&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "9f5ab9a06de37499a4e3c403da62606b98238f52e949f1bd818f829e396118a2"
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 117 (2011) — Electric Cities/Uses of Rate Revenue.

## 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/2011/Bills/House/PDF/H117v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/House/PDF/H117v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/House/PDF/H117v2.pdf)
4. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/House/PDF/H117v3.pdf)
5. **SL2011-129** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/House/PDF/H117v4.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Daughtry — primary (person)
- Cleveland — cosponsor (person)
- Graham — cosponsor (person)
- Wainwright — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2011-06-15** Ch. SL 2011-129 `became-law`
- **2011-06-15** Ratified
- **2011-06-14** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2011-06-14** Placed On Cal For 6/14/2011
- **2011-06-14** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-06-06** Ref To Com On Commerce `referral-committee`
- **2011-06-06** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2011-06-03** Rec From House
- **2011-06-02** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2011-06-01** Placed On Cal For 6/2/2011
- **2011-06-01** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2011-06-01** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-02-17** Ref To Com On Public Utilities `referral-committee`
- **2011-02-17** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2011-02-16** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e23425ce-b51c-44c0-a63c-e5f91a5fb146`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).