---
type: "Bill"
title: "Grifton Shad Festival."
description: "Grifton Shad Festival."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2011"
identifier: "HB 321"
citation: "North Carolina HB 321 (2011)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ANIMALS", "COUNTIES", "CULTURAL RESOURCES", "ENVIRONMENT", "FESTIVALS", "FISH & WILDLIFE", "MUNICIPALITIES", "PRESENTED", "PUBLIC", "RATIFIED", "STATE SYMBOLS", "REP. MCLAWHORN", "REP. E. WARREN", "PITT COUNTY", "LENOIR COUNTY", "CHAPTERED", "GRIFTON", "REP. COOK"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["E. Warren", "McLawhorn"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2011-03-09"
last_action: "2011-04-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d291eac9-b412-4ffb-af77-fb6eca9da93d"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2011&BillID=H321&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "474e8fc6f12a3ac264bd9b94de37a94149542596539ceb9e5f7eef1515112b14"
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 321 (2011) — Grifton Shad Festival.

## 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/H321v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/House/PDF/H321v1.pdf)
3. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/House/PDF/H321v2.pdf)
4. **SL2011-36** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/House/PDF/H321v3.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **117–0** (pass) · lower
- Second Reading — **48–2** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- E. Warren — primary (person)
- McLawhorn — primary (person)
- Cook — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2011-04-12** Ch. SL 2011-36 `became-law`
- **2011-04-12** Signed By Gov. 4/12/2011 `executive-signature`
- **2011-04-07** Pres. To Gov. 4/7/2011 `executive-receipt`
- **2011-04-07** Ratified
- **2011-04-06** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2011-04-06** Placed On Cal For 4/6/2011
- **2011-04-06** Rec From House
- **2011-04-06** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2011-04-05** Placed On Cal For 4/6/2011
- **2011-03-30** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2011-03-30** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-03-14** Ref To Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2011-03-14** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2011-03-09** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d291eac9-b412-4ffb-af77-fb6eca9da93d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).