---
type: "Bill"
title: "Individually Metered Units/Tenant Charged."
description: "Individually Metered Units/Tenant Charged."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2011"
identifier: "SB 533"
citation: "North Carolina SB 533 (2011)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["COMMERCE", "COMMISSIONS", "ELECTRICITY", "HOUSING", "INFRASTRUCTURE", "LANDLORD & TENANT", "LEASING", "PRESENTED", "PUBLIC", "RATIFIED", "UTILITIES", "UTILITIES COMN.", "CHAPTERED", "SEN. HUNT"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 5
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2011-04-07"
last_action: "2011-06-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cd2ac9e8-c280-4f37-a9a8-bf7ec2684eaa"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2011&BillID=S533&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "eb64cc9afe2304875f93353d56a00374f789a26e003994bbbd8cd32cb7157599"
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 533 (2011) — Individually Metered Units/Tenant Charged.

## 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/S533v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/Senate/PDF/S533v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/Senate/PDF/S533v2.pdf)
4. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/Senate/PDF/S533v3.pdf)
5. **SL2011-252** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/Senate/PDF/S533v4.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **117–0** (pass) · lower
- Second Reading — **48–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Allran — cosponsor (person)
- Bingham — cosponsor (person)
- Blake — cosponsor (person)
- Brown — cosponsor (person)
- Brunstetter — cosponsor (person)
- Clary — cosponsor (person)
- Forrester — cosponsor (person)
- Hunt — cosponsor (person)
- Newton — cosponsor (person)
- Preston — cosponsor (person)
- Rabon — cosponsor (person)
- Stevens — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2011-06-23** Ch. SL 2011-252 `became-law`
- **2011-06-23** Signed By Gov. 6/23/2011 `executive-signature`
- **2011-06-17** Pres. To Gov. 6/17/2011 `executive-receipt`
- **2011-06-16** Ratified
- **2011-06-15** 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`
- **2011-06-13** Re-ref Com On Commerce and Job Development Subcommittee on Business and Labor `referral-committee`
- **2011-06-13** Withdrawn From Com
- **2011-06-08** Ref To Com On Public Utilities `referral-committee`
- **2011-06-08** 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** Com Substitute Adopted
- **2011-06-07** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-04-12** Ref To Com On Commerce `referral-committee`
- **2011-04-12** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2011-04-07** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/cd2ac9e8-c280-4f37-a9a8-bf7ec2684eaa`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).