---
type: "Bill"
title: "Clarify Water & Well Rights/Private Property."
description: "Clarify Water & Well Rights/Private Property."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2011"
identifier: "SB 676"
citation: "North Carolina SB 676 (2011)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ENVIRONMENT", "LANDOWNERS", "PRESENTED", "PROPERTY", "PUBLIC", "RATIFIED", "WATER & SEWER SYSTEMS", "WATER RESOURCES", "CHAPTERED", "SEN. EAST", "SEN. ROUZER", "SEN. JACKSON", "WELLS"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jackson", "Rouzer"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 26
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2011-04-19"
last_action: "2011-06-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fa2fe0c6-76e9-4ae7-bac6-dda0072958da"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2011&BillID=S676&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "0c882a5fd2f8e1c9cb7c85694ba165e920fc04f801570b2f2e15e6b4a6e161d9"
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 676 (2011) — Clarify Water & Well Rights/Private Property.

## 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/S676v0.pdf)
2. **A1: ARI-9-V-3** (committee substitute) — [source](https://webservices.ncleg.net/ViewBillDocument/2011/571/0/S676-ARI-9-V-3)
3. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/Senate/PDF/S676v1.pdf)
4. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/Senate/PDF/S676v2.pdf)
5. **Edition 3** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/Senate/PDF/S676v3.pdf)
6. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/Senate/PDF/S676v4.pdf)
7. **SL2011-255** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/Senate/PDF/S676v5.pdf)

## Votes

- Amendment 1 — **48–0** (pass) · upper
- Second Reading — **97–20** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

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

## Timeline

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

- **2011-06-23** Ch. SL 2011-255 `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 6/15/2011
- **2011-06-14** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2011-06-14** Serial Referral to Commerce and Job Development is Stricken
- **2011-06-14** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-06-13** Re-ref Com On Agriculture `referral-committee`
- **2011-06-13** Withdrawn From Com
- **2011-05-17** Ref to the Com on Environment, if favorable, Commerce and Job Development `referral-committee`
- **2011-05-17** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2011-05-12** Engrossed
- **2011-05-12** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2011-05-12** Amend Adopted 1 `amendment-passage`
- **2011-05-10** Placed On Cal For 5/12/2011
- **2011-05-10** Withdrawn From Cal
- **2011-05-05** Placed On Cal For 5/10/2011
- **2011-05-05** Withdrawn From Cal
- **2011-05-04** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2011-05-03** Com Substitute Adopted
- **2011-05-03** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-04-20** Ref To Com On Agriculture/Environment/Natural Resources `referral-committee`
- **2011-04-20** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2011-04-19** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/fa2fe0c6-76e9-4ae7-bac6-dda0072958da`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).