---
type: "Bill"
title: "Swine House Renovations/Site Limits."
description: "Swine House Renovations/Site Limits."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2011"
identifier: "SB 501"
citation: "North Carolina SB 501 (2011)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["AGRICULTURE", "ANIMALS", "FORESTRY", "LIVESTOCK & POULTRY", "PRESENTED", "PUBLIC", "RATIFIED", "CHAPTERED", "SEN. ROUZER", "SEN. JACKSON"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Rouzer"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 21
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2011-04-04"
last_action: "2011-06-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d67ea754-002b-4d49-a2eb-604018acec15"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2011&BillID=S501&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "15b396d624273dec9eb52d8c4d2c8e04cb9a2c13716c0be29254e7cc2b91997e"
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 501 (2011) — Swine House Renovations/Site Limits.

## 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/S501v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/Senate/PDF/S501v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/Senate/PDF/S501v2.pdf)
4. **Edition 3** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/Senate/PDF/S501v3.pdf)
5. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/Senate/PDF/S501v4.pdf)
6. **SL2011-118** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/Senate/PDF/S501v5.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **82–33** (pass) · lower
- Motion 9\To Concur — **49–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

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

## Timeline

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

- **2011-06-13** Ch. SL 2011-118 `became-law`
- **2011-06-13** Signed By Gov. 6/13/2011 `executive-signature`
- **2011-06-06** Pres. To Gov. 6/6/2011 `executive-receipt`
- **2011-06-04** Ratified
- **2011-06-02** Concurred In H/com Sub `amendment-passage`
- **2011-06-01** Placed On Cal For 6/2/2011
- **2011-06-01** Rec To Concur H Com Sub
- **2011-05-31** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2011-05-26** Placed On Cal For 5/31/2011
- **2011-05-26** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2011-05-25** Placed On Cal For 5/26/2011
- **2011-05-25** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2011-05-25** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-05-02** Ref To Com On Agriculture `referral-committee`
- **2011-05-02** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2011-04-27** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2011-04-26** Com Substitute Adopted
- **2011-04-26** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-04-05** Ref To Com On Agriculture/Environment/Natural Resources `referral-committee`
- **2011-04-05** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2011-04-04** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d67ea754-002b-4d49-a2eb-604018acec15`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).