---
type: "Bill"
title: "Electric Vehicle Incentives."
description: "Electric Vehicle Incentives."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2011"
identifier: "HB 222"
citation: "North Carolina HB 222 (2011)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CONSERVATION", "DMV", "FUELS", "INFRASTRUCTURE", "INSPECTIONS", "MOTOR VEHICLES", "PRESENTED", "PUBLIC", "RATIFIED", "ROADS & HIGHWAYS", "TRANSPORTATION", "TRANSPORTATION DEPT.", "REP. GIBSON", "ALTERNATIVE FUELED VEHICLES", "CHAPTERED", "REP. LEWIS", "ALTERNATIVE ENERGY", "REP. SAMUELSON"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gibson", "Lewis"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 25
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2011-03-02"
last_action: "2011-05-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/208d4e18-30b8-465a-97e8-83ea2b0907b7"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2011&BillID=H222&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "15d0ad389c2ee08c39f592af774d93a56276bb1b42a992415a83c1a1510d046e"
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 222 (2011) — Electric Vehicle 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/2011/Bills/House/PDF/H222v0.pdf)
2. **A1: ASU-4-V-2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://webservices.ncleg.net/ViewBillDocument/2011/298/0/H222-ASU-4-V-2)
3. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/House/PDF/H222v1.pdf)
4. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/House/PDF/H222v2.pdf)
5. **Edition 3** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/House/PDF/H222v3.pdf)
6. **Edition 4** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/House/PDF/H222v4.pdf)
7. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/House/PDF/H222v5.pdf)
8. **SL2011-95** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/House/PDF/H222v6.pdf)

## Votes

- M11 Concur — **116–1** (pass) · lower
- Second Reading — **49–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Gibson — primary (person)
- Lewis — primary (person)
- H. Warren — cosponsor (person)
- Hackney — cosponsor (person)
- Hamilton — cosponsor (person)
- Harrison — cosponsor (person)
- Jordan — cosponsor (person)
- Luebke — cosponsor (person)
- McGee — cosponsor (person)
- McGrady — cosponsor (person)
- Samuelson — cosponsor (person)
- T. Moore — cosponsor (person)
- Weiss — cosponsor (person)
- Wray — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2011-05-26** Ch. SL 2011-95 `became-law`
- **2011-05-26** Signed By Gov. 5/26/2011 `executive-signature`
- **2011-05-19** Pres. To Gov. 5/19/2011 `executive-receipt`
- **2011-05-18** Ratified
- **2011-05-17** Concurred In S/Com Sub `amendment-passage`
- **2011-05-16** Placed On Cal For 5/17/2011
- **2011-05-16** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2011-05-16** Rec To Concur S Com Sub
- **2011-05-11** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2011-05-10** Com Substitute Adopted
- **2011-05-10** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-04-26** Re-ref Com On Commerce `referral-committee`
- **2011-04-26** Withdrawn From Com
- **2011-04-19** Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2011-04-19** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2011-04-15** Rec From House
- **2011-04-14** Ordered Engrossed
- **2011-04-14** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2011-04-14** Amend Adopted 1 `amendment-passage`
- **2011-04-13** Placed On Cal For 4/14/2011
- **2011-04-13** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2011-04-13** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-03-03** Ref To Com On Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2011-03-03** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2011-03-02** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/208d4e18-30b8-465a-97e8-83ea2b0907b7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).