---
type: "Bill"
title: "High School Accreditation."
description: "High School Accreditation."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2011"
identifier: "HB 342"
citation: "North Carolina HB 342 (2011)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["BOARDS", "BUDGETING", "COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES", "EDUCATION", "EDUCATION BOARDS", "EDUCATION", "STATE BOARD OF", "FUNDING", "HIGHER EDUCATION", "KINDERGARTEN", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "PUBLIC", "PUBLIC INSTRUCTION DEPT.", "RATIFIED", "SECONDARY EDUCATION", "CHAPTERED", "REP. HOLLOWAY", "REP. BLACKWELL"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Blackwell"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2011-03-14"
last_action: "2011-06-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1d91248f-0a04-45c0-9315-3546ab7916e0"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2011&BillID=H342&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "1e2b2be0751401764c4ec03e03841d31eefeafb68f29021db9c72b37563158bd"
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 342 (2011) — High School Accreditation.

## 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/H342v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/House/PDF/H342v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/House/PDF/H342v2.pdf)
4. **Edition 3** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/House/PDF/H342v3.pdf)
5. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/House/PDF/H342v4.pdf)
6. **SL2011-306** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/House/PDF/H342v5.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **32–15** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **66–46** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Blackwell — primary (person)
- Avila — cosponsor (person)
- Cook — cosponsor (person)
- Dollar — cosponsor (person)
- Holloway — cosponsor (person)
- Stam — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2011-06-27** Ch. SL 2011-306 `became-law`
- **2011-06-27** Became Law w/o Signature
- **2011-06-16** Pres. To Gov. 6/16/2011 `executive-receipt`
- **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`
- **2011-06-07** Ref To Com On Education/Higher Education `referral-committee`
- **2011-06-07** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2011-06-07** Rec From House
- **2011-06-06** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2011-06-03** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2011-06-02** Placed On Cal For 6/3/2011
- **2011-06-02** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2011-06-02** Reptd Fav Com Sub 2 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-03-30** Re-ref Com On Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2011-03-30** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-03-15** Ref to the Com on Education, if favorable, Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2011-03-15** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2011-03-14** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1d91248f-0a04-45c0-9315-3546ab7916e0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).