---
type: "Bill"
title: "Allow County Grants for Broadband."
description: "Allow County Grants for Broadband."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2011"
identifier: "HB 593"
citation: "North Carolina HB 593 (2011)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["COMMERCE", "CONTRACTS", "COUNTIES", "ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT", "FUNDING", "GRANTS", "INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY", "INFRASTRUCTURE", "INTERNET", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "PRIVATIZATION", "PUBLIC", "RATIFIED", "TELECOMMUNICATIONS", "TELESERVICES", "TITLE CHANGE", "CHAPTERED", "REP. COLLINS"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 5
action_count: 22
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2011-04-04"
last_action: "2011-06-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/80c5e09b-a8e8-47bc-96df-14395351f5c7"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2011&BillID=H593&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "c8be534bf965f1b75bab3e345c9995e2cc53f9c5bb348a9f886a89694835624d"
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 593 (2011) — Allow County Grants for Broadband.

## 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/H593v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/House/PDF/H593v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/House/PDF/H593v2.pdf)
4. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/House/PDF/H593v3.pdf)
5. **SL2011-163** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/House/PDF/H593v4.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **117–0** (pass) · lower
- Second Reading — **107–5** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Bell — cosponsor (person)
- Collins — cosponsor (person)
- Faison — cosponsor (person)
- Lucas — cosponsor (person)
- Moffitt — cosponsor (person)
- Stevens — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2011-06-16** Ch. SL 2011-163 `became-law`
- **2011-06-16** Ratified
- **2011-06-16** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2011-06-15** Placed On Cal For 6/16/2011
- **2011-06-15** Withdrawn From Cal
- **2011-06-15** Placed On Cal For 6/15/2011
- **2011-06-15** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-06-10** Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2011-06-10** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2011-06-10** Rec From House
- **2011-06-09** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2011-06-09** Amendment Withdrawn 1 `amendment-withdrawal`
- **2011-06-09** Amend Offered 1
- **2011-06-08** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2011-06-08** Placed On Cal For 6/8/2011
- **2011-06-08** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2011-06-08** Withdrawn From Com
- **2011-06-01** Re-ref Com On Finance `referral-committee`
- **2011-06-01** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-04-05** Ref to the Com on Public Utilities, if favorable, Finance `referral-committee`
- **2011-04-05** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2011-04-04** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/80c5e09b-a8e8-47bc-96df-14395351f5c7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).