---
type: "Bill"
title: "High School to Work Partnership."
description: "High School to Work Partnership."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2011"
identifier: "HB 769"
citation: "North Carolina HB 769 (2011)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["BOARDS", "EDUCATION", "EDUCATION BOARDS", "EMPLOYMENT", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "PRESENTED", "PUBLIC", "RATIFIED", "SECONDARY EDUCATION", "VOCATIONAL EDUCATION", "CHAPTERED", "REP. LEWIS", "REP. COTHAM"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Cotham", "Holloway", "Lewis"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2011-04-06"
last_action: "2011-05-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8332ab06-c911-4018-93b2-f0a980d655fd"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2011&BillID=H769&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "8de5eaa209acd1ab770bbe205f02b6df1ce0ec6261a751f2cd7b2b29c0f76f85"
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 769 (2011) — High School to Work Partnership.

## 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/H769v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/House/PDF/H769v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/House/PDF/H769v2.pdf)
4. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/House/PDF/H769v3.pdf)
5. **SL2011-91** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/House/PDF/H769v4.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **112–0** (pass) · lower
- Second Reading — **48–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Cotham — primary (person)
- Holloway — primary (person)
- Lewis — primary (person)
- Cook — cosponsor (person)
- Floyd — cosponsor (person)
- Gill — cosponsor (person)
- Glazier — cosponsor (person)
- Graham — cosponsor (person)
- Hall — cosponsor (person)
- Hamilton — cosponsor (person)
- Harrison — cosponsor (person)
- Jordan — cosponsor (person)
- Lucas — cosponsor (person)
- M. Alexander — cosponsor (person)
- McLawhorn — cosponsor (person)
- Parfitt — cosponsor (person)
- Parmon — cosponsor (person)
- Pierce — cosponsor (person)
- R. Moore — cosponsor (person)
- Torbett — cosponsor (person)
- Weiss — cosponsor (person)
- Wray — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2011-05-26** Ch. SL 2011-91 `became-law`
- **2011-05-26** Signed By Gov. 5/26/2011 `executive-signature`
- **2011-05-17** Pres. To Gov. 5/17/2011 `executive-receipt`
- **2011-05-16** Ratified
- **2011-05-12** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2011-05-11** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-05-02** Ref To Com On Education/Higher Education `referral-committee`
- **2011-05-02** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2011-04-29** Rec From House
- **2011-04-28** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2011-04-26** Placed On Cal For 4/28/2011
- **2011-04-20** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2011-04-20** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-04-07** Ref To Com On Education `referral-committee`
- **2011-04-07** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2011-04-06** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8332ab06-c911-4018-93b2-f0a980d655fd`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).