---
type: "Bill"
title: "Joint Municipal Power Agencies/Investments."
description: "Joint Municipal Power Agencies/Investments."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 323"
citation: "North Carolina SB 323 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CATAWBA COUNTY", "CHAPTERED", "COUNCIL OF STATE", "COUNTIES", "ELECTRICITY GENERATION & DISTRIBUTION", "FUNDS & ACCOUNTS", "INFRASTRUCTURE", "INVESTMENTS", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "MUNICIPALITIES", "PRESENTED", "PUBLIC", "PUBLIC OFFICIALS", "RATIFIED", "STATE TREASURER", "SWAIN COUNTY", "UTILITIES"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 5
action_count: 33
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-03-18"
last_action: "2021-07-02"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d5fbbe81-e978-48d4-a884-4c3fec9e5791"
source_url: "https://www.ncleg.gov/BillLookUp/2021/S323"
source_hash: "47dbe38c820e2ac211a0ee499ba8dfcfdc478882e345899d95c0924a56a2df4e"
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 323 (2021) — Joint Municipal Power Agencies/Investments.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Filed** (filed) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2021/Bills/Senate/PDF/S323v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2021/Bills/Senate/PDF/S323v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2021/Bills/Senate/PDF/S323v2.pdf)
4. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2021/Bills/Senate/PDF/S323v3.pdf)
5. **SL 2021-73** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2021/Bills/Senate/PDF/S323v4.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **102–0** (pass) · lower
- Motion 9 To Concur — **50–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Alexander — cosponsor (person)
- Ballard — cosponsor (person)
- Burgin — cosponsor (person)
- Crawford — cosponsor (person)
- Daniel — cosponsor (person)
- Ford — cosponsor (person)
- Garrett — cosponsor (person)
- Harrington — cosponsor (person)
- Jarvis — cosponsor (person)
- Krawiec — cosponsor (person)
- Marcus — cosponsor (person)
- McInnis — cosponsor (person)
- Newton — cosponsor (person)
- Proctor — cosponsor (person)
- Salvador — cosponsor (person)
- Sawyer — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-07-02** Ch. SL 2021-73 `became-law`
- **2021-07-02** Signed by Gov. 7/2/2021 `executive-signature`
- **2021-06-24** Pres. To Gov. 6/24/2021 `executive-receipt`
- **2021-06-23** Ratified
- **2021-06-22** Ordered Enrolled
- **2021-06-22** Concurred In H Com Sub `amendment-passage`
- **2021-06-17** Placed On Cal For 06/22/2021
- **2021-06-17** Regular Message Received For Concurrence in H Com Sub
- **2021-06-16** Regular Message Sent To Senate
- **2021-06-15** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-06-15** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2021-06-15** Added to Calendar
- **2021-06-15** Withdrawn From Cal
- **2021-06-09** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2021-06-09** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-06-08** Re-ref Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2021-06-08** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-06-02** Re-ref to the Com on Pensions and Retirement, if favorable, Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2021-06-02** Withdrawn From Com
- **2021-04-15** Ref To Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-15** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2021-04-14** Regular Message Received From Senate
- **2021-04-14** Regular Message Sent To House
- **2021-04-13** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-13** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2021-04-12** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-01** Re-ref Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-01** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-25** Re-ref to Pensions and Retirement and Aging. If fav, re-ref to Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-25** Withdrawn From Com
- **2021-03-22** Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-22** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2021-03-18** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d5fbbe81-e978-48d4-a884-4c3fec9e5791`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).