---
type: "Bill"
title: "Clarify Wastewater Permitting Liability."
description: "Clarify Wastewater Permitting Liability."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 761"
citation: "North Carolina HB 761 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["DHHS", "ENVIRONMENT", "GEOLOGY", "HEALTH DEPTS.", "HEALTH SERVICES", "INFRASTRUCTURE", "LICENSES & PERMITS", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "OCCUPATIONS", "PRESENTED", "PUBLIC", "PUBLIC HEALTH", "RATIFIED", "SOILS", "UTILITIES", "WATER & SEWER SYSTEMS", "LIABILITY", "CHAPTERED", "SOIL SCIENTISTS"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Carney", "McElraft", "Yarborough"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 34
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-04-15"
last_action: "2019-07-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8fb81a81-3175-42ed-a037-f6a2bc747994"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2019&BillID=H761&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "93b257a6fe37eb42f4c64f3647d4ee4a87ec3eac8d172453f2399f408bb36119"
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 761 (2019) — Clarify Wastewater Permitting Liability.

## 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/2019/Bills/House/PDF/H761v0.pdf)
2. **A1: AST-42-V-4** (committee substitute) — [source](https://webservices.ncleg.gov/ViewBillDocument/2019/5301/0/H761-AST-42-V-4)
3. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2019/Bills/House/PDF/H761v1.pdf)
4. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2019/Bills/House/PDF/H761v2.pdf)
5. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2019/Bills/House/PDF/H761v3.pdf)
6. **SL 2019-126** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2019/Bills/House/PDF/H761v4.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper
- M11 Concur Sen. Amd. 1 — **117–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Carney — primary (person)
- McElraft — primary (person)
- Yarborough — primary (person)
- Corbin — cosponsor (person)
- Dahle — cosponsor (person)
- R. Smith — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-07-19** Ch. SL 2019-126 `became-law`
- **2019-07-19** Signed by Gov. 7/19/2019 `executive-signature`
- **2019-07-10** Pres. To Gov. 7/10/2019 `executive-receipt`
- **2019-07-09** Ratified
- **2019-07-08** Ordered Enrolled
- **2019-07-08** Concurred In S Amend SA1 `amendment-passage`
- **2019-07-04** Placed On Cal For 07/08/2019
- **2019-07-04** Cal Pursuant 36(b)
- **2019-07-02** Regular Message Received For Concurrence in S Amend
- **2019-07-02** Regular Message Sent To House
- **2019-07-01** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-07-01** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2019-07-01** Amend Adopted A1 `amendment-passage`
- **2019-06-27** Placed On Cal For 07/01/2019
- **2019-06-27** Withdrawn From Cal
- **2019-06-26** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-06-20** Re-ref Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2019-06-20** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-06-06** Re-ref to Agriculture/Environment/Natural Resources. If fav, re-ref to Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2019-06-06** Withdrawn From Com
- **2019-05-06** Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-06** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2019-05-06** Regular Message Received From House
- **2019-05-03** Regular Message Sent To Senate
- **2019-05-02** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-05-02** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2019-05-01** Placed On Cal For 05/02/2019
- **2019-05-01** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2019-05-01** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-30** Re-ref Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-30** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-16** Ref to the Com on Environment, if favorable, Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-16** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2019-04-15** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8fb81a81-3175-42ed-a037-f6a2bc747994`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).