---
type: "Bill"
title: "Comm. Colleges/Opt Out of Fed'l Loan Program."
description: "Comm. Colleges/Opt Out of Fed'l Loan Program."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2011"
identifier: "HB 7"
citation: "North Carolina HB 7 (2011)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["BOARDS", "COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES", "COMMUNITY COLLEGES", "COMMUNITY COLLEGES BOARD", "COMMUNITY COLLEGES OFFICE", "EDUCATION", "HIGHER EDUCATION", "LOANS", "PRESENTED", "PUBLIC", "RATIFIED", "TUITION", "VETOED", "CHAPTERED", "VETO OVERRIDDEN", "REP. CLEVELAND", "REP. INGLE"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Cleveland", "Ingle"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 41
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2011-01-26"
last_action: "2012-06-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9cdb1e7f-04a2-42ff-ad42-1117368f363c"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2011&BillID=H7&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "cb17d26fb3e10081f1f9455488889f0de63dd002f16e4b401cca647700c088a9"
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 7 (2011) — Comm. Colleges/Opt Out of Fed'l Loan Program.

## 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/H7v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/House/PDF/H7v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/House/PDF/H7v2.pdf)
4. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/House/PDF/H7v3.pdf)
5. **SL2012-31** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/House/PDF/H7v4.pdf)

## Votes

- Veto Override — **71–46** (pass) · lower
- Motion 11\OVERRIDE VETO — **31–16** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Cleveland — primary (person)
- Ingle — primary (person)
- Barnhart — cosponsor (person)
- Blust — cosponsor (person)
- Bradley — cosponsor (person)
- Brawley — cosponsor (person)
- Brubaker — cosponsor (person)
- Burr — cosponsor (person)
- Daughtry — cosponsor (person)
- Dixon — cosponsor (person)
- Dollar — cosponsor (person)
- Folwell — cosponsor (person)
- Frye — cosponsor (person)
- Guice — cosponsor (person)
- H. Warren — cosponsor (person)
- Hager — cosponsor (person)
- Hastings — cosponsor (person)
- Hilton — cosponsor (person)
- Hollo — cosponsor (person)
- Horn — cosponsor (person)
- Howard — cosponsor (person)
- Hurley — cosponsor (person)
- Iler — cosponsor (person)
- Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Jones — cosponsor (person)
- Jordan — cosponsor (person)
- L. Brown — cosponsor (person)
- Langdon — cosponsor (person)
- Lewis — cosponsor (person)
- McCormick — cosponsor (person)
- McElraft — cosponsor (person)
- McGee — cosponsor (person)
- Mills — cosponsor (person)
- Pridgen — cosponsor (person)
- Randleman — cosponsor (person)
- Sager — cosponsor (person)
- Sanderson — cosponsor (person)
- Shepard — cosponsor (person)
- Stam — cosponsor (person)
- Starnes — cosponsor (person)
- Steen — cosponsor (person)
- Stevens — cosponsor (person)
- T. Moore — cosponsor (person)
- Torbett — cosponsor (person)
- West — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2012-06-18** Ch. SL 2012-31 `became-law`
- **2012-06-18** Veto Overridden `veto-override-passage`
- **2012-06-14** Placed On Cal For 6/18/2012
- **2012-06-14** Rec From House
- **2012-06-14** Veto Overridden `veto-override-passage`
- **2012-05-24** Placed On Cal For 5/29/2012
- **2012-05-24** Withdrawn From Cal
- **2011-09-14** Placed On Cal For 11/7/2011
- **2011-09-13** Cal 2nd legislative day
- **2011-04-13** Vetoed 4/13/2011 `executive-veto`
- **2011-04-06** Pres. To Gov. 4/6/2011 `executive-receipt`
- **2011-04-05** Ratified
- **2011-04-04** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2011-04-04** Amend Failed 4 `amendment-failure`
- **2011-04-04** Amend Failed 3 `amendment-failure`
- **2011-04-04** Amend Failed 2 `amendment-failure`
- **2011-04-04** Amend Failed 1 `amendment-failure`
- **2011-03-31** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-03-09** Ref To Com On Education/Higher Education `referral-committee`
- **2011-03-09** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2011-03-09** Rec From House
- **2011-03-08** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2011-03-08** Amend Failed 5 `amendment-failure`
- **2011-03-07** Postponed To 3/8/2011
- **2011-03-07** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2011-03-07** Amend Failed 4 `amendment-failure`
- **2011-03-07** Amend Failed 3 `amendment-failure`
- **2011-03-07** Amend Failed 2 `amendment-failure`
- **2011-03-07** Amend Failed 1 `amendment-failure`
- **2011-03-03** Placed On Cal For 3/7/2011
- **2011-03-03** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2011-03-03** Withdrawn From Com
- **2011-02-23** Re-ref Com On Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2011-02-23** Withdrawn From Cal
- **2011-02-22** Placed On Cal For 2/23/2011
- **2011-02-22** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2011-02-22** Serial Referral Stricken
- **2011-02-22** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-01-27** Ref to the Com on Education, if favorable, Finance `referral-committee`
- **2011-01-27** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2011-01-26** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9cdb1e7f-04a2-42ff-ad42-1117368f363c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).