---
type: "Bill"
title: "Water Utility Recovery."
description: "Water Utility Recovery."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2013"
identifier: "HB 710"
citation: "North Carolina HB 710 (2013)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["COMMERCE", "COMMISSIONS", "INFRASTRUCTURE", "PRESENTED", "PUBLIC", "RATIFIED", "UTILITIES", "UTILITIES COMN.", "WATER & SEWER SYSTEMS", "CHAPTERED"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 7
action_count: 24
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2013-04-10"
last_action: "2013-06-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6b7da647-dbce-45f1-9166-1070324651ce"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2013&BillID=H710&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "2aeb63e73dc597cf839084a59ded63633d56a4d6d8c8c8c7a678cdcf723bdd85"
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 HB 710 (2013) — Water Utility Recovery.

## 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/2013/Bills/House/PDF/H710v0.pdf)
2. **A1: AMC-15-V-1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://webservices.ncleg.net/ViewBillDocument/2013/5220/0/H710-AMC-15-V-1)
3. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2013/Bills/House/PDF/H710v1.pdf)
4. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2013/Bills/House/PDF/H710v2.pdf)
5. **Edition 3** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2013/Bills/House/PDF/H710v3.pdf)
6. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2013/Bills/House/PDF/H710v4.pdf)
7. **SL2013-106** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2013/Bills/House/PDF/H710v5.pdf)

## Votes

- SECOND READING — **47–0** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **114–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Hager — cosponsor (person)
- Steinburg — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2013-06-12** Ch. SL 2013-106 `became-law`
- **2013-06-12** Signed by Gov. 6/12/2013 `executive-signature`
- **2013-06-06** Pres. To Gov. 6/6/2013 `executive-receipt`
- **2013-06-05** Ratified
- **2013-06-04** Ordered Enrolled
- **2013-06-04** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2013-06-04** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2013-05-29** Placed On Cal For 06/04/2013
- **2013-05-29** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2013-05-16** Ref To Com On Finance `referral-committee`
- **2013-05-16** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2013-05-16** Rec From House
- **2013-05-15** Ordered Engrossed
- **2013-05-15** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2013-05-14** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2013-05-14** Amend Adopted A1 `amendment-passage`
- **2013-05-14** Placed On Cal For 05/14/2013
- **2013-05-14** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2013-05-14** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2013-05-09** Re-ref Com On Finance `referral-committee`
- **2013-05-09** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2013-04-11** Ref to the Com on Public Utilities and Energy, if favorable, Finance `referral-committee`
- **2013-04-11** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2013-04-10** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6b7da647-dbce-45f1-9166-1070324651ce`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).