---
type: "Bill"
title: "ETJ/Wake Municipal Farm Exemption."
description: "ETJ/Wake Municipal Farm Exemption."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2011"
identifier: "SB 263"
citation: "North Carolina SB 263 (2011)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["AGRICULTURE", "BUILDINGS", "COUNTIES", "LICENSES & PERMITS", "LOCAL", "MUNICIPALITIES", "RATIFIED", "WAKE COUNTY", "RALEIGH", "FUQUAY-VARINA", "KNIGHTDALE", "GARNER", "CARY", "WAKE FOREST", "MORRISVILLE", "CHAPTERED", "WENDELL", "HOLLY SPRINGS", "APEX", "ZEBULON", "ROLESVILLE", "SEN. HUNT", "SEN. BLUE"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Blue"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 13
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2011-03-08"
last_action: "2011-04-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f7c647c7-aa81-4914-902d-3f13ae2ceaa7"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2011&BillID=S263&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "cf45cadbb0eea4c458e59663d107c4dc755e986c5ae1bde1a547c7ee503c110f"
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 263 (2011) — ETJ/Wake Municipal Farm Exemption.

## 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/S263v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/Senate/PDF/S263v1.pdf)
3. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/Senate/PDF/S263v2.pdf)
4. **SL2011-34** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/Senate/PDF/S263v3.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **116–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Blue — primary (person)
- Hunt — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2011-04-12** Ch. SL 2011-34 `became-law`
- **2011-04-12** Ratified
- **2011-04-11** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2011-04-07** Placed On Cal For 4/11/2011
- **2011-04-07** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2011-04-07** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-03-21** Ref To Com On Government `referral-committee`
- **2011-03-21** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2011-03-16** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2011-03-15** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-03-09** Ref To Com On State and Local Government `referral-committee`
- **2011-03-09** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2011-03-08** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f7c647c7-aa81-4914-902d-3f13ae2ceaa7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).