---
type: "Bill"
title: "No Standardized Testing Unless Req'd by Feds."
description: "No Standardized Testing Unless Req'd by Feds."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2011"
identifier: "HB 48"
citation: "North Carolina HB 48 (2011)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["BOARDS", "EDUCATION", "EDUCATION BOARDS", "EDUCATION", "STATE BOARD OF", "EDUCATIONAL TESTING", "ELEMENTARY EDUCATION", "FISCAL NOTES", "KINDERGARTEN", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "PRESENTED", "PUBLIC", "PUBLIC INSTRUCTION DEPT.", "RATIFIED", "REPORTS", "SECONDARY EDUCATION", "TESTING", "CHAPTERED", "REP. HOLLOWAY", "REP. BLACKWELL"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Blackwell", "Hilton", "Holloway"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 22
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2011-02-07"
last_action: "2011-03-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4f0ed837-2491-484c-a392-cb553af1a80d"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2011&BillID=H48&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "780212aa34c2467b191835cd0d869e919454fe39394f3f13ce9251739db97eb6"
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 48 (2011) — No Standardized Testing Unless Req'd by Feds.

## 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/H48v0.pdf)
2. **A1: ARJ-1-V-1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://webservices.ncleg.net/ViewBillDocument/2011/33/0/H48-ARJ-1-V-1)
3. **A2: ALE-7-V-3** (committee substitute) — [source](https://webservices.ncleg.net/ViewBillDocument/2011/34/0/H48-ALE-7-V-3)
4. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/House/PDF/H48v1.pdf)
5. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/House/PDF/H48v2.pdf)
6. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/House/PDF/H48v3.pdf)
7. **SL2011-8** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/House/PDF/H48v4.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **44–5** (pass) · upper
- Amendment 1 — **11–38** (fail) · upper

## Sponsors

- Blackwell — primary (person)
- Hilton — primary (person)
- Holloway — primary (person)
- Bradley — cosponsor (person)
- Brandon — cosponsor (person)
- Burr — cosponsor (person)
- Cleveland — cosponsor (person)
- Cotham — cosponsor (person)
- Faircloth — cosponsor (person)
- Faison — cosponsor (person)
- Folwell — cosponsor (person)
- Frye — cosponsor (person)
- Harrison — cosponsor (person)
- Hastings — cosponsor (person)
- Hurley — cosponsor (person)
- Iler — cosponsor (person)
- Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- Jones — cosponsor (person)
- Jordan — cosponsor (person)
- L. Brown — cosponsor (person)
- Langdon — cosponsor (person)
- Lewis — cosponsor (person)
- Luebke — cosponsor (person)
- McGee — cosponsor (person)
- McLawhorn — cosponsor (person)
- R. Moore — cosponsor (person)
- Sager — cosponsor (person)
- Setzer — cosponsor (person)
- Shepard — cosponsor (person)
- Starnes — cosponsor (person)
- Stevens — cosponsor (person)
- T. Moore — cosponsor (person)
- Weiss — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2011-03-21** Ch. SL 2011-8 `became-law`
- **2011-03-21** Became Law w/o Signature
- **2011-03-08** Pres. To Gov. 3/8/2011 `executive-receipt`
- **2011-03-07** Ratified
- **2011-03-03** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2011-03-03** Amend Failed 1 `amendment-failure`
- **2011-03-02** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-02-21** Ref To Com On Education/Higher Education `referral-committee`
- **2011-02-21** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2011-02-18** Rec From House
- **2011-02-17** Ordered Engrossed
- **2011-02-17** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2011-02-16** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2011-02-16** Amend Failed 3 `amendment-failure`
- **2011-02-16** Amend Adopted 2 `amendment-passage`
- **2011-02-16** Amend Adopted 1 `amendment-passage`
- **2011-02-15** Placed On Cal For 2/16/2011
- **2011-02-15** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2011-02-15** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-02-08** Ref To Com On Education `referral-committee`
- **2011-02-08** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2011-02-07** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4f0ed837-2491-484c-a392-cb553af1a80d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).