---
type: "Bill"
title: "Amend Engineers and Surveyors Laws."
description: "Amend Engineers and Surveyors Laws."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2011"
identifier: "HB 616"
citation: "North Carolina HB 616 (2011)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["BOARDS", "ENGINEERING", "ENGINEERS", "ENGINEERS & SURVEYORS BOARD", "LICENSING & CERTIFICATION", "OCCUPATIONS", "PRESENTED", "PUBLIC", "RATIFIED", "SURVEYING", "REP. GILLESPIE", "RECORDS", "CHAPTERED"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 5
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2011-04-04"
last_action: "2011-06-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a9a82008-f33c-410b-a71a-105d74fd3c90"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2011&BillID=H616&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "1c7d3db1a9bd18a472bf24e4bc682d617ef0344167c41557b942d8c7232ea763"
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 616 (2011) — Amend Engineers and Surveyors Laws.

## 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/H616v0.pdf)
2. **A1: ARC-41-V-1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://webservices.ncleg.net/ViewBillDocument/2011/1142/0/H616-ARC-41-V-1)
3. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/House/PDF/H616v1.pdf)
4. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/House/PDF/H616v2.pdf)
5. **SL2011-304** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/House/PDF/H616v3.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper
- Second Reading — **117–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Gillespie — cosponsor (person)
- Wray — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2011-06-26** Ch. SL 2011-304 `became-law`
- **2011-06-26** Signed By Gov. 6/26/2011 `executive-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** Com Amend Adopted 1 `amendment-passage`
- **2011-06-14** Reptd Fav As Amended `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-04-19** Ref To Com On Commerce `referral-committee`
- **2011-04-19** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2011-04-15** Rec From House
- **2011-04-14** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2011-04-13** Placed On Cal For 4/14/2011
- **2011-04-13** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2011-04-13** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-04-05** Ref To Com On Judiciary Subcommittee C `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/a9a82008-f33c-410b-a71a-105d74fd3c90`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).