---
type: "Bill"
title: "Rental Property/Lithium Battery Smoke Alarms."
description: "Rental Property/Lithium Battery Smoke Alarms."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2011"
identifier: "SB 77"
citation: "North Carolina SB 77 (2011)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ALARM SYSTEMS", "CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES", "CRIMES", "HOUSING", "LANDLORD & TENANT", "PRESENTED", "PUBLIC", "RATIFIED", "SAFETY", "SAFETY EQUIPMENT", "SMOKE DETECTORS", "TITLE CHANGE", "SEN. BINGHAM", "CHAPTERED"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 8
action_count: 24
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2011-02-16"
last_action: "2012-06-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b22207c4-ae94-48d8-bd28-4e9092072147"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2011&BillID=S77&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "3c7cb1057d317c4b14b577fd1d12a486e3e24cb1663d29e2d28e34e5a4298656"
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 77 (2011) — Rental Property/Lithium Battery Smoke Alarms.

## 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/S77v0.pdf)
2. **A1: ARK-122-V-1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://webservices.ncleg.net/ViewBillDocument/2011/6899/0/S77-ARK-122-V-1)
3. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/Senate/PDF/S77v1.pdf)
4. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/Senate/PDF/S77v2.pdf)
5. **Edition 3** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/Senate/PDF/S77v3.pdf)
6. **Edition 4** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/Senate/PDF/S77v4.pdf)
7. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/Senate/PDF/S77v5.pdf)
8. **SL2012-92** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/Senate/PDF/S77v6.pdf)

## Votes

- Motion 9\To Concur — **47–0** (pass) · upper
- Second Reading — **84–28** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Allran — cosponsor (person)
- Bingham — cosponsor (person)
- Blue — cosponsor (person)
- Brown — cosponsor (person)
- Brunstetter — cosponsor (person)
- Clary — cosponsor (person)
- East — cosponsor (person)
- Goolsby — cosponsor (person)
- Hunt — cosponsor (person)
- Jenkins — cosponsor (person)
- Jones — cosponsor (person)
- Kinnaird — cosponsor (person)
- McKissick — cosponsor (person)
- Newton — cosponsor (person)
- Preston — cosponsor (person)
- Purcell — cosponsor (person)
- Stevens — cosponsor (person)
- Tucker — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2012-06-28** Ch. SL 2012-92 `became-law`
- **2012-06-28** Signed By Gov. 6/28/2012 `executive-signature`
- **2012-06-21** Pres. To Gov. 6/21/2012 `executive-receipt`
- **2012-06-21** Ratified
- **2012-06-20** Concurred In H/com Sub `amendment-passage`
- **2012-06-19** Placed On Cal For 6/20/2012
- **2012-06-19** Rec To Concur H Com Sub
- **2012-06-18** Ordered Engrossed
- **2012-06-18** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2012-06-14** Amend Adopted 1 `amendment-passage`
- **2012-06-12** Postponed To 6/14/2012
- **2012-06-05** Postponed To 6/12/2012
- **2012-06-04** Postponed To 6/5/2012
- **2012-05-31** Placed On Cal For 6/4/2012
- **2012-05-30** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2012-05-30** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-03-07** Ref To Com On Judiciary Subcommittee B `referral-committee`
- **2011-03-07** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2011-03-02** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2011-03-01** Com Substitute Adopted
- **2011-03-01** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-02-17** Ref To Com On Judiciary II `referral-committee`
- **2011-02-17** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2011-02-16** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b22207c4-ae94-48d8-bd28-4e9092072147`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).