---
type: "Bill"
title: "Wildlife Licenses/Eliminate Penalty."
description: "Wildlife Licenses/Eliminate Penalty."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2011"
identifier: "SB 868"
citation: "North Carolina SB 868 (2011)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ANIMALS", "COMMISSIONS", "ENVIRONMENT", "FISH & WILDLIFE", "HUNTING & FISHING", "LICENSES & PERMITS", "PRESENTED", "PUBLIC", "RATIFIED", "WILDLIFE RESOURCES COMN.", "CHAPTERED", "SEN. BROWN", "SEN. NEWTON"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Newton"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 17
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2012-05-22"
last_action: "2012-06-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cfc19b23-b55e-4a98-8cbf-eea5b47cc56b"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2011&BillID=S868&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "a8c1db0ba94dc234dae6b73adc791c9548ca92d1e85ffec3b763cb99969480e7"
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 868 (2011) — Wildlife Licenses/Eliminate Penalty.

## 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/S868v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/Senate/PDF/S868v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/Senate/PDF/S868v2.pdf)
4. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/Senate/PDF/S868v3.pdf)
5. **SL2012-81** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/Senate/PDF/S868v4.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **115–0** (pass) · lower
- Second Reading — **49–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Newton — primary (person)
- Bingham — cosponsor (person)
- Brock — cosponsor (person)
- Brown — cosponsor (person)
- Carney — cosponsor (person)
- Daniel — cosponsor (person)
- Davis — cosponsor (person)
- Goolsby — cosponsor (person)
- Hunt — cosponsor (person)
- Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- Meredith — cosponsor (person)
- Preston — cosponsor (person)
- Rucho — cosponsor (person)
- Stevens — cosponsor (person)
- Tillman — cosponsor (person)
- Tucker — cosponsor (person)
- Westmoreland — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2012-06-26** Ch. SL 2012-81 `became-law`
- **2012-06-26** Signed By Gov. 6/26/2012 `executive-signature`
- **2012-06-21** Pres. To Gov. 6/21/2012 `executive-receipt`
- **2012-06-21** Ratified
- **2012-06-20** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2012-06-19** Placed On Cal For 6/20/2012
- **2012-06-19** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2012-06-19** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2012-06-12** Ref To Com On Agriculture `referral-committee`
- **2012-06-12** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2012-06-12** Rec From Senate
- **2012-06-12** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2012-06-11** Com Substitute Adopted
- **2012-06-11** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2012-05-23** Ref To Com On Agriculture/Environment/Natural Resources `referral-committee`
- **2012-05-23** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2012-05-22** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/cfc19b23-b55e-4a98-8cbf-eea5b47cc56b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).