---
type: "Bill"
title: "Amend Law Regulating Proprietary Schools."
description: "Amend Law Regulating Proprietary Schools."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2011"
identifier: "SB 20"
citation: "North Carolina SB 20 (2011)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["BOARDS", "COMMUNITY COLLEGES", "COMMUNITY COLLEGES BOARD", "CONSUMER PROTECTION", "EDUCATION", "FEES", "HIGHER EDUCATION", "LICENSES & PERMITS", "PRESENTED", "PRIVATE SCHOOLS", "PROPRIETARY SCHOOLS", "PUBLIC", "RATIFIED", "STUDENTS", "SEN. CLODFELTER", "CHAPTERED", "SEN. TILLMAN"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Tillman"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2011-02-01"
last_action: "2011-03-31"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0fbb2403-4ab3-41e5-8172-7a96606051ff"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2011&BillID=S20&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "3cb72425d88581844ef6c2d4e9bd5c06720134c73196be551494ea39d5082693"
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 20 (2011) — Amend Law Regulating Proprietary Schools.

## 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/S20v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/Senate/PDF/S20v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/Senate/PDF/S20v2.pdf)
4. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/Senate/PDF/S20v3.pdf)
5. **SL2011-21** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/Senate/PDF/S20v4.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **50–0** (pass) · upper
- Second Reading — **114–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Tillman — primary (person)
- Allran — cosponsor (person)
- Apodaca — cosponsor (person)
- Bingham — cosponsor (person)
- Blake — cosponsor (person)
- Brown — cosponsor (person)
- Clodfelter — cosponsor (person)
- Daniel — cosponsor (person)
- Gunn — cosponsor (person)
- Hise — cosponsor (person)
- Hunt — cosponsor (person)
- Jenkins — cosponsor (person)
- Jones — cosponsor (person)
- Meredith — cosponsor (person)
- Preston — cosponsor (person)
- Purcell — cosponsor (person)
- Rouzer — cosponsor (person)
- Soucek — cosponsor (person)
- Stein — cosponsor (person)
- Stevens — cosponsor (person)
- Tucker — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2011-03-31** Ch. SL 2011-21 `became-law`
- **2011-03-31** Signed By Gov. 3/31/2011 `executive-signature`
- **2011-03-25** Pres. To Gov. 3/25/2011 `executive-receipt`
- **2011-03-24** Ratified
- **2011-03-23** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2011-03-22** Placed On Cal For 3/23/2011
- **2011-03-22** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2011-03-22** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-03-01** Ref To Com On Education `referral-committee`
- **2011-03-01** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2011-02-24** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2011-02-23** Com Substitute Adopted
- **2011-02-23** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-02-02** Ref To Com On Education/Higher Education `referral-committee`
- **2011-02-02** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2011-02-01** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0fbb2403-4ab3-41e5-8172-7a96606051ff`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).