---
type: "Bill"
title: "Electric Co-Op Rural Broadband Services."
description: "Electric Co-Op Rural Broadband Services."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 310"
citation: "North Carolina SB 310 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT", "ELECTRICITY", "INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY", "INFRASTRUCTURE", "INTERNET", "PRESENTED", "PUBLIC", "RATIFIED", "RURAL DEVELOPMENT", "TELECOMMUNICATIONS", "TELESERVICES", "UTILITIES", "CHAPTERED"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brown", "Newton"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 31
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-03-19"
last_action: "2019-05-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c3322b5b-203e-4ce1-ac50-a5895f635393"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2019&BillID=S310&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "bba08aefc4fcbbb150cf0ac1561a432e9cb0c2bfc55dcd30d9a0655e4ab6617d"
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 310 (2019) — Electric Co-Op Rural Broadband Services.

## 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/Senate/PDF/S310v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2019/Bills/Senate/PDF/S310v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2019/Bills/Senate/PDF/S310v2.pdf)
4. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2019/Bills/Senate/PDF/S310v3.pdf)
5. **SL 2019-17** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2019/Bills/Senate/PDF/S310v4.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **114–1** (pass) · lower
- Second Reading — **49–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Brown — primary (person)
- Newton — primary (person)
- B. Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- Ballard — cosponsor (person)
- Bishop — cosponsor (person)
- Blue — cosponsor (person)
- Britt — cosponsor (person)
- Burgin — cosponsor (person)
- Chaudhuri — cosponsor (person)
- Clark — cosponsor (person)
- D. Davis — cosponsor (person)
- Daniel — cosponsor (person)
- Edwards — cosponsor (person)
- Ford — cosponsor (person)
- Foushee — cosponsor (person)
- Garrett — cosponsor (person)
- Gunn — cosponsor (person)
- Harrington — cosponsor (person)
- Hise — cosponsor (person)
- Horner — cosponsor (person)
- J. Alexander — cosponsor (person)
- J. Davis — cosponsor (person)
- J. Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Lowe — cosponsor (person)
- Marcus — cosponsor (person)
- McInnis — cosponsor (person)
- McKissick — cosponsor (person)
- Mohammed — cosponsor (person)
- Nickel — cosponsor (person)
- Perry — cosponsor (person)
- Peterson — cosponsor (person)
- Robinson — cosponsor (person)
- Sanderson — cosponsor (person)
- Sawyer — cosponsor (person)
- Searcy — cosponsor (person)
- Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Steinburg — cosponsor (person)
- T. Alexander — cosponsor (person)
- Waddell — cosponsor (person)
- Woodard — cosponsor (person)
- deViere — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-05-30** Ch. SL 2019-17 `became-law`
- **2019-05-30** Signed by Gov. 5/30/2019 `executive-signature`
- **2019-05-28** Pres. To Gov. 5/28/2019 `executive-receipt`
- **2019-05-28** Ratified
- **2019-05-28** Ordered Enrolled
- **2019-05-28** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-05-28** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2019-05-22** Placed On Cal For 05/28/2019
- **2019-05-22** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2019-05-22** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-05-22** Re-ref Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-22** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-05-20** Re-ref to the Com on Energy and Public Utilities, if favorable, Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-20** Withdrawn From Com
- **2019-05-07** Ref To Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-07** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2019-05-06** Regular Message Received From Senate
- **2019-05-06** Regular Message Sent To House
- **2019-05-02** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-05-02** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2019-05-01** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-30** Re-ref Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-30** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-17** Re-ref Com On Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-17** Com Substitute Adopted
- **2019-04-17** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-26** Re-ref to Commerce and Insurance. If fav, re-ref to Judiciary. If fav, re-ref to Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-26** Withdrawn From Com
- **2019-03-20** Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-20** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2019-03-19** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c3322b5b-203e-4ce1-ac50-a5895f635393`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).