---
type: "Bill"
title: "NCEMPA Asset Sale."
description: "NCEMPA Asset Sale."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2015"
identifier: "SB 305"
citation: "North Carolina SB 305 (2015)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["COMMERCE", "COMMISSIONS", "ELECTRICITY", "INFRASTRUCTURE", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "MUNICIPALITIES", "PRESENTED", "PUBLIC", "RATIFIED", "UTILITIES", "UTILITIES COMN.", "CHAPTERED"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Newton", "Pate"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 23
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2015-03-17"
last_action: "2015-04-02"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fba8c4be-15c1-4cdd-a94c-66f934ce1415"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2015&BillID=S305&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "af7bcb69de4b1827416ebe7d45dbdeaab112a14cead48a5ee25949e0e91faa78"
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 305 (2015) — NCEMPA Asset Sale.

## 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/2015/Bills/Senate/PDF/S305v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2015/Bills/Senate/PDF/S305v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2015/Bills/Senate/PDF/S305v2.pdf)
4. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2015/Bills/Senate/PDF/S305v3.pdf)
5. **SL2015-3** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2015/Bills/Senate/PDF/S305v4.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **115–0** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **118–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Newton — primary (person)
- Pate — primary (person)
- Apodaca — cosponsor (person)
- B. Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- Barefoot — cosponsor (person)
- Berger — cosponsor (person)
- Bingham — cosponsor (person)
- Brock — cosponsor (person)
- Brown — cosponsor (person)
- Bryant — cosponsor (person)
- Clark — cosponsor (person)
- Cook — cosponsor (person)
- Curtis — cosponsor (person)
- D. Davis — cosponsor (person)
- Daniel — cosponsor (person)
- Ford — cosponsor (person)
- Foushee — cosponsor (person)
- Gunn — cosponsor (person)
- Harrington — cosponsor (person)
- Hartsell — cosponsor (person)
- Hise — cosponsor (person)
- J. Davis — cosponsor (person)
- J. Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- Krawiec — cosponsor (person)
- Lee — cosponsor (person)
- Lowe — cosponsor (person)
- McInnis — cosponsor (person)
- McKissick — cosponsor (person)
- Rabin — cosponsor (person)
- Rabon — cosponsor (person)
- Robinson — cosponsor (person)
- Rucho — cosponsor (person)
- Sanderson — cosponsor (person)
- Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Smith-Ingram — cosponsor (person)
- Soucek — cosponsor (person)
- Stein — cosponsor (person)
- Tarte — cosponsor (person)
- Tillman — cosponsor (person)
- Tucker — cosponsor (person)
- Van Duyn — cosponsor (person)
- Waddell — cosponsor (person)
- Wade — cosponsor (person)
- Wells — cosponsor (person)
- Woodard — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2015-04-02** Ch. SL 2015-3 `became-law`
- **2015-04-02** Signed by Gov. 4/2/2015 `executive-signature`
- **2015-04-01** Pres. To Gov. 04/01/2015 `executive-receipt`
- **2015-04-01** Ratified
- **2015-04-01** Ordered Enrolled
- **2015-04-01** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2015-03-31** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2015-03-31** Added to Calendar
- **2015-03-31** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2015-03-31** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2015-03-26** Ref To Com On Finance `referral-committee`
- **2015-03-26** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2015-03-26** Special Message Received From Senate
- **2015-03-26** Special Message Sent To House
- **2015-03-26** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2015-03-25** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2015-03-24** Com Substitute Adopted
- **2015-03-24** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2015-03-18** Re-ref Com On Finance `referral-committee`
- **2015-03-18** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2015-03-18** Ref to Commerce. If fav, re-ref to Finance `referral-committee`
- **2015-03-18** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2015-03-17** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/fba8c4be-15c1-4cdd-a94c-66f934ce1415`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).