---
type: "Bill"
title: "APA Rules: Limit Additional Costs."
description: "APA Rules: Limit Additional Costs."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2011"
identifier: "SB 22"
citation: "North Carolina SB 22 (2011)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ADMINISTRATIVE RULES", "PRESENTED", "PUBLIC", "RATIFIED", "CHAPTERED", "SEN. BROWN", "SEN. ROUZER"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brown"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 25
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2011-02-01"
last_action: "2011-03-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/85d8ac94-846c-42b2-8dd6-6121b8f86c1c"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2011&BillID=S22&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "3eef45343edb91eb4f8e47aaa4991eec20fb15739adf2b17a4e882c78f8aca44"
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 22 (2011) — APA Rules: Limit Additional Costs.

## 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/S22v0.pdf)
2. **A1: ASB-5-V-1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://webservices.ncleg.net/ViewBillDocument/2011/16/0/S22-ASB-5-V-1)
3. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/Senate/PDF/S22v1.pdf)
4. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/Senate/PDF/S22v2.pdf)
5. **Edition 3** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/Senate/PDF/S22v3.pdf)
6. **Edition 4** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/Senate/PDF/S22v4.pdf)
7. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/Senate/PDF/S22v5.pdf)
8. **SL2011-13** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/Senate/PDF/S22v6.pdf)

## Votes

- Motion 9\To Concur — **48–1** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **74–40** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Brown — primary (person)
- Apodaca — cosponsor (person)
- Blake — cosponsor (person)
- Brock — cosponsor (person)
- Brunstetter — cosponsor (person)
- Daniel — cosponsor (person)
- East — cosponsor (person)
- Goolsby — cosponsor (person)
- Gunn — cosponsor (person)
- Harrington — cosponsor (person)
- Hise — cosponsor (person)
- Hunt — cosponsor (person)
- Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- Meredith — cosponsor (person)
- Newton — cosponsor (person)
- Preston — cosponsor (person)
- Rabon — cosponsor (person)
- Rouzer — cosponsor (person)
- Rucho — cosponsor (person)
- Soucek — cosponsor (person)
- Tillman — cosponsor (person)
- Tucker — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2011-03-25** Ch. SL 2011-13 `became-law`
- **2011-03-25** Signed By Gov. 3/25/2011 `executive-signature`
- **2011-03-17** Pres. To Gov. 3/17/2011 `executive-receipt`
- **2011-03-16** Ratified
- **2011-03-15** Concurred In H/com Sub `amendment-passage`
- **2011-03-14** Placed On Cal For 3/15/2011
- **2011-03-11** Rec To Concur H Com Sub
- **2011-03-10** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2011-03-10** Amend Failed 3 `amendment-failure`
- **2011-03-09** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2011-03-09** Amend Failed 2 `amendment-failure`
- **2011-03-09** Amend Failed 1 `amendment-failure`
- **2011-03-08** Placed On Cal For 3/9/2011
- **2011-03-07** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2011-03-07** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-02-14** Ref To Com On Environment `referral-committee`
- **2011-02-14** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2011-02-09** Engrossed
- **2011-02-09** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2011-02-09** Amend Adopted 1 `amendment-passage`
- **2011-02-08** Com Substitute Adopted
- **2011-02-08** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-02-02** Ref To Com On Agriculture/Environment/Natural Resources `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/85d8ac94-846c-42b2-8dd6-6121b8f86c1c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).