---
type: "Bill"
title: "Winston-Salem/Informal Bids Electronically."
description: "Winston-Salem/Informal Bids Electronically."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2011"
identifier: "HB 371"
citation: "North Carolina HB 371 (2011)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["BIDS & BIDDING", "CONTRACTS", "COUNTIES", "EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES", "INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY", "INTERNET", "LOCAL", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "MUNICIPALITIES", "PURCHASING", "RATIFIED", "FORSYTH COUNTY", "WINSTON-SALEM", "CHAPTERED", "REP. PARMON", "ELECTRONIC GOVERNMENT"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Parmon", "Womble"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 14
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2011-03-15"
last_action: "2011-05-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d6fed12a-f10a-4d87-8a2b-0064cd8df34f"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2011&BillID=H371&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "0f461330871cf5ef31cccc41640363a6c1508ff6c176677f0eefb9f6bb59586f"
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 371 (2011) — Winston-Salem/Informal Bids Electronically.

## 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/H371v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/House/PDF/H371v1.pdf)
3. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/House/PDF/H371v2.pdf)
4. **SL2011-80** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/House/PDF/H371v3.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **49–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Parmon — primary (person)
- Womble — primary (person)
- L. Brown — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2011-05-19** Ch. SL 2011-80 `became-law`
- **2011-05-19** Ratified
- **2011-05-18** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2011-05-17** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-05-10** Ref To Com On State and Local Government `referral-committee`
- **2011-05-10** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2011-05-10** Rec From House
- **2011-05-09** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2011-05-05** Placed On Cal For 5/9/2011
- **2011-05-05** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2011-05-05** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-03-17** Ref To Com On Government `referral-committee`
- **2011-03-17** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2011-03-15** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d6fed12a-f10a-4d87-8a2b-0064cd8df34f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).