---
type: "Bill"
title: "Communications Regulatory Reform."
description: "Communications Regulatory Reform."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2011"
identifier: "SB 343"
citation: "North Carolina SB 343 (2011)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["COMMERCE", "COMMISSIONS", "INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY", "INFRASTRUCTURE", "INTERNET", "PRESENTED", "PUBLIC", "RATIFIED", "TELECOMMUNICATIONS", "TELEPHONES", "TELESERVICES", "UTILITIES", "UTILITIES COMN.", "CHAPTERED", "SEN. BROWN"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 5
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2011-03-14"
last_action: "2011-04-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/32e0923d-39e0-4680-9977-eb702fdd19f9"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2011&BillID=S343&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "49ebea302f9ea308d2cbbc5592e4a0f9a6d7908e21d0eac9002c53a90e30e543"
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 343 (2011) — Communications Regulatory Reform.

## 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/S343v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/Senate/PDF/S343v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/Senate/PDF/S343v2.pdf)
4. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/Senate/PDF/S343v3.pdf)
5. **SL2011-52** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/Senate/PDF/S343v4.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **107–9** (pass) · lower
- Second Reading — **50–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Apodaca — cosponsor (person)
- Blue — cosponsor (person)
- Brown — cosponsor (person)
- Goolsby — cosponsor (person)
- Hise — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2011-04-26** Ch. SL 2011-52 `became-law`
- **2011-04-26** Signed By Gov. 4/26/2011 `executive-signature`
- **2011-04-19** Pres. To Gov. 4/19/2011 `executive-receipt`
- **2011-04-18** Ratified
- **2011-04-14** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2011-04-13** Placed On Cal For 4/14/2011
- **2011-04-13** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2011-04-13** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-04-11** Ref To Com On Public Utilities `referral-committee`
- **2011-04-11** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2011-04-06** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2011-04-05** Com Substitute Adopted
- **2011-04-05** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-03-15** Ref To Com On Finance `referral-committee`
- **2011-03-15** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2011-03-14** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/32e0923d-39e0-4680-9977-eb702fdd19f9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).