---
type: "Bill"
title: "Conservation Easements Stewardship Funds."
description: "Conservation Easements Stewardship Funds."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2011"
identifier: "SB 309"
citation: "North Carolina SB 309 (2011)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["BOARDS", "CONSERVATION", "ENVIRONMENT", "FUNDS & ACCOUNTS", "PRESENTED", "PUBLIC", "RATIFIED", "SOIL & WATER CONSERVATION DIST.", "SOILS", "WATER RESOURCES", "CHAPTERED", "SEN. JACKSON"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 4
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2011-03-09"
last_action: "2011-06-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9ebb2f5a-5b3b-4ab6-a94e-14d4a73be63d"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2011&BillID=S309&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "b525d89a181b639a6db7f8cf227deda9f234a4ee70cd45fa508135733d14276a"
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 309 (2011) — Conservation Easements Stewardship Funds.

## 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/S309v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/Senate/PDF/S309v1.pdf)
3. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/Senate/PDF/S309v2.pdf)
4. **SL2011-209** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/Senate/PDF/S309v3.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **50–0** (pass) · upper
- Second Reading — **117–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Apodaca — cosponsor (person)
- Bingham — cosponsor (person)
- Blake — cosponsor (person)
- Brunstetter — cosponsor (person)
- Daniel — cosponsor (person)
- Davis — cosponsor (person)
- Forrester — cosponsor (person)
- Hunt — cosponsor (person)
- Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- Meredith — cosponsor (person)
- Newton — cosponsor (person)
- Pate — cosponsor (person)
- Preston — cosponsor (person)
- Rabon — cosponsor (person)
- Rouzer — cosponsor (person)
- Stevens — cosponsor (person)
- Tucker — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2011-06-23** Ch. SL 2011-209 `became-law`
- **2011-06-23** Signed By Gov. 6/23/2011 `executive-signature`
- **2011-06-16** Pres. To Gov. 6/16/2011 `executive-receipt`
- **2011-06-15** Ratified
- **2011-06-14** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2011-06-14** Placed On Cal For 6/14/2011
- **2011-06-14** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2011-06-14** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-06-07** Ref To Com On Finance `referral-committee`
- **2011-06-07** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2011-06-07** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2011-06-07** Placed On Cal For 6/7/2011
- **2011-06-07** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-06-02** Re-ref Com On Agriculture/Environment/Natural Resources `referral-committee`
- **2011-06-02** Withdrawn From Com
- **2011-03-10** Ref To Com On Appropriations/Base Budget `referral-committee`
- **2011-03-10** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2011-03-09** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9ebb2f5a-5b3b-4ab6-a94e-14d4a73be63d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).