---
type: "Bill"
title: "Energy Crops for Biofuels Feedstocks."
description: "Energy Crops for Biofuels Feedstocks."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2011"
identifier: "SB 378"
citation: "North Carolina SB 378 (2011)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["AGRICULTURAL WASTE", "AGRICULTURE", "DENR", "ENVIRONMENT", "FUELS", "PRESENTED", "PUBLIC", "RATIFIED", "REPORTS", "WASTE MANAGEMENT", "CHAPTERED", "ALTERNATIVE ENERGY", "SEN. ROUZER", "SEN. GOOLSBY", "SEN. JACKSON"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Goolsby", "Rouzer"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 17
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2011-03-17"
last_action: "2011-06-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f35202bd-ef7f-4f5c-98e1-5889d25b1670"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2011&BillID=S378&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "64bfa1f7c4512f47eb48eb0b5a0056fb1a328e554a6a23009a328390cfddfa55"
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 378 (2011) — Energy Crops for Biofuels Feedstocks.

## 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/S378v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/Senate/PDF/S378v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/Senate/PDF/S378v2.pdf)
4. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/Senate/PDF/S378v3.pdf)
5. **SL2011-198** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/Senate/PDF/S378v4.pdf)

## Votes

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

## Sponsors

- Goolsby — primary (person)
- Rouzer — primary (person)
- Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- Meredith — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2011-06-23** Ch. SL 2011-198 `became-law`
- **2011-06-23** Signed By Gov. 6/23/2011 `executive-signature`
- **2011-06-15** Pres. To Gov. 6/15/2011 `executive-receipt`
- **2011-06-14** Ratified
- **2011-06-13** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2011-06-09** Placed On Cal For 6/13/2011
- **2011-06-09** Withdrawn From Com
- **2011-05-31** Re-ref Com On Finance `referral-committee`
- **2011-05-31** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-04-06** Ref to the Com on Agriculture, if favorable, Finance `referral-committee`
- **2011-04-06** 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`
- **2011-03-21** Ref To Com On Agriculture/Environment/Natural Resources `referral-committee`
- **2011-03-21** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2011-03-17** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f35202bd-ef7f-4f5c-98e1-5889d25b1670`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).