---
type: "Bill"
title: "Promote Electricity Demand Reduction."
description: "Promote Electricity Demand Reduction."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2011"
identifier: "SB 75"
citation: "North Carolina SB 75 (2011)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CONSERVATION", "ELECTRICITY", "ENVIRONMENT", "INFRASTRUCTURE", "PRESENTED", "PUBLIC", "RATIFIED", "UTILITIES", "SEN. HARTSELL", "CHAPTERED"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 5
action_count: 22
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2011-02-15"
last_action: "2011-04-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/979c0d4c-6b25-41e2-a0d6-ea3e8aaaf471"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2011&BillID=S75&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "54551aadece811d57a5d1480961b8d5f7467ce2fe2d2357d47bb0867c2838283"
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 75 (2011) — Promote Electricity Demand Reduction.

## 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/S75v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/Senate/PDF/S75v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/Senate/PDF/S75v2.pdf)
4. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/Senate/PDF/S75v3.pdf)
5. **SL2011-55** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/Senate/PDF/S75v4.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **78–40** (pass) · lower
- A1 Alexander, K.\Third Reading — **52–66** (fail) · lower

## Sponsors

- Bingham — cosponsor (person)
- Clodfelter — cosponsor (person)
- Hartsell — cosponsor (person)
- Mansfield — cosponsor (person)
- Meredith — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2011-04-28** Ch. SL 2011-55 `became-law`
- **2011-04-28** Signed By Gov. 4/28/2011 `executive-signature`
- **2011-04-25** Pres. To Gov. 4/25/2011 `executive-receipt`
- **2011-04-21** Ratified
- **2011-04-20** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2011-04-20** Amend Failed 1 `amendment-failure`
- **2011-04-19** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2011-04-14** Placed On Cal For 4/18/2011
- **2011-04-14** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2011-04-14** Withdrawn From Com
- **2011-04-13** Re-ref Com On Finance `referral-committee`
- **2011-04-13** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-04-07** Re-ref to the Com on Public Utilities, if favorable, Finance `referral-committee`
- **2011-04-07** Withdrawn From Com
- **2011-03-21** Ref To Com On Finance `referral-committee`
- **2011-03-21** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2011-03-16** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2011-03-15** Com Substitute Adopted
- **2011-03-15** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-02-16** Ref To Com On Commerce `referral-committee`
- **2011-02-16** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2011-02-15** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/979c0d4c-6b25-41e2-a0d6-ea3e8aaaf471`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).