---
type: "Bill"
title: "Guilford Tech. May Lease Property."
description: "Guilford Tech. May Lease Property."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2011"
identifier: "HB 409"
citation: "North Carolina HB 409 (2011)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES", "COMMUNITY COLLEGES", "COUNTIES", "ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT", "EDUCATION", "HIGHER EDUCATION", "LOCAL", "RATIFIED", "REP. JEFFUS", "GUILFORD COUNTY"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Adams", "Harrison", "Jeffus"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 17
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2011-03-17"
last_action: "2011-06-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/16e56325-f487-440c-a863-b28ddebebf28"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2011&BillID=H409&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "280a7cd7a8e8b9588a0eeb505fe01cf4511494d5071f30223741cb11f44ea616"
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 409 (2011) — Guilford Tech. May Lease Property.

## 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/H409v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/House/PDF/H409v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/House/PDF/H409v2.pdf)
4. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/House/PDF/H409v3.pdf)
5. **SL2011-153** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/House/PDF/H409v4.pdf)

## Votes

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

## Sponsors

- Adams — primary (person)
- Harrison — primary (person)
- Jeffus — primary (person)
- Faircloth — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2011-06-16** Ch. SL 2011-153 `became-law`
- **2011-06-16** Ratified
- **2011-06-15** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2011-06-15** Placed On Cal For 6/15/2011
- **2011-06-15** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-06-08** Ref To Com On Finance `referral-committee`
- **2011-06-08** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2011-06-08** Rec From House
- **2011-06-07** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2011-06-07** Placed On Cal For 6/7/2011
- **2011-06-07** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2011-06-07** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-04-21** Re-ref Com On Finance `referral-committee`
- **2011-04-21** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-03-21** Ref to the Com on Government, if favorable, Finance `referral-committee`
- **2011-03-21** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2011-03-17** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/16e56325-f487-440c-a863-b28ddebebf28`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).