---
type: "Bill"
title: "Spending Cuts for the Current Fiscal Year."
description: "Spending Cuts for the Current Fiscal Year."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2011"
identifier: "SB 109"
citation: "North Carolina SB 109 (2011)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["BUDGETING", "GOVERNOR", "PRESENTED", "PUBLIC", "PUBLIC OFFICIALS", "RATIFIED", "CHAPTERED", "SEN. STEVENS", "SEN. HUNT", "SEN. BRUNSTETTER"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brunstetter", "Stevens"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2011-02-22"
last_action: "2011-03-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4180df0f-f8da-45f5-b10e-e4f1e5552005"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2011&BillID=S109&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "45088fa813bc35639851cd56b06caf6393a94c3f0adc5b5c2c361164eae463aa"
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 SB 109 (2011) — Spending Cuts for the Current Fiscal Year.

## 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/Senate/PDF/S109v0.pdf)
2. **A1: ALE-13-V-2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://webservices.ncleg.net/ViewBillDocument/2011/88/0/S109-ALE-13-V-2)
3. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/Senate/PDF/S109v1.pdf)
4. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/Senate/PDF/S109v2.pdf)
5. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/Senate/PDF/S109v3.pdf)
6. **SL2011-15** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/Senate/PDF/S109v4.pdf)

## Votes

- Amendment 1 — **50–0** (pass) · upper
- Second Reading — **79–37** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Brunstetter — primary (person)
- Stevens — primary (person)
- Allran — cosponsor (person)
- Bingham — cosponsor (person)
- Blake — cosponsor (person)
- Brock — cosponsor (person)
- Brown — cosponsor (person)
- Clary — cosponsor (person)
- Daniel — cosponsor (person)
- Davis — cosponsor (person)
- East — cosponsor (person)
- Forrester — cosponsor (person)
- Goolsby — cosponsor (person)
- Gunn — cosponsor (person)
- Harrington — cosponsor (person)
- Hartsell — cosponsor (person)
- Hise — cosponsor (person)
- Hunt — cosponsor (person)
- Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- Meredith — cosponsor (person)
- Newton — cosponsor (person)
- Pate — cosponsor (person)
- Rabon — cosponsor (person)
- Rouzer — cosponsor (person)
- Soucek — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2011-03-25** Ch. SL 2011-15 `became-law`
- **2011-03-25** Signed By Gov. 3/25/2011 `executive-signature`
- **2011-03-16** Pres. To Gov. 3/16/2011 `executive-receipt`
- **2011-03-16** Ratified
- **2011-03-15** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2011-03-10** Postponed To 3/15/2011
- **2011-03-09** Placed On Cal For 3/10/2011
- **2011-03-08** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2011-03-08** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-03-07** Ref To Com On Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2011-03-07** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2011-03-02** Engrossed
- **2011-03-02** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2011-03-02** Amend Adopted 1 `amendment-passage`
- **2011-03-01** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2011-03-01** Placed On Cal For 3/1/2011
- **2011-03-01** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-02-23** Ref To Com On Appropriations/Base Budget `referral-committee`
- **2011-02-23** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2011-02-22** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4180df0f-f8da-45f5-b10e-e4f1e5552005`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).