---
type: "Bill"
title: "Confirm Edward Finley to Utilities Commission."
description: "Confirm Edward Finley to Utilities Commission."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2011"
identifier: "SJR 778"
citation: "North Carolina SJR 778 (2011)"
classification: ["joint resolution"]
subjects: ["APPOINTMENTS", "COMMERCE", "COMMISSIONS", "GENERAL ASSEMBLY", "GOVERNOR", "PUBLIC OFFICIALS", "RATIFIED", "RESOLUTIONS", "JOINT", "UTILITIES", "UTILITIES COMN.", "CHAPTERED", "SEN. BROWN"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 3
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2011-05-05"
last_action: "2011-06-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d4281ccd-f9c6-4c91-86bf-501cfca9272d"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2011&BillID=S778&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "80c3dcc9cd6472f7c651da9a990957d1ff9ee7e8261f3ff3ed39c11fe3841dc7"
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 SJR 778 (2011) — Confirm Edward Finley to Utilities Commission.

## 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/S778v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/Senate/PDF/S778v1.pdf)
3. **Res 2011-7** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/Senate/PDF/S778v2.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **50–0** (pass) · upper
- Second Reading — **111–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Brown — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2011-06-14** Ch. Res 2011-7 `became-law`
- **2011-06-14** Ratified
- **2011-06-13** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2011-06-09** Placed On Cal For 6/13/2011
- **2011-06-08** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2011-06-08** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-06-07** Re-ref Com On Public Utilities `referral-committee`
- **2011-06-07** Withdrawn From Cal
- **2011-06-06** Placed On Cal For 6/7/2011
- **2011-06-06** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2011-06-06** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2011-06-02** Placed On Cal For 6/6/2011
- **2011-06-02** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-05-09** Ref To Com On Commerce `referral-committee`
- **2011-05-09** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2011-05-05** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d4281ccd-f9c6-4c91-86bf-501cfca9272d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).