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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Mental Health Equitable Coverage."
+description: "Mental Health Equitable Coverage."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
+legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
+session: "2007"
+identifier: "HB 973"
+citation: "North Carolina HB 973 (2007)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["HEALTH SERVICES", "INSURANCE", "INSURANCE", "HEALTH", "MENTAL HEALTH", "PRESENTED", "PUBLIC", "PUBLIC HEALTH", "RATIFIED", "SALARIES & BENEFITS", "STATE EMPLOYEES", "TEACHERS", "TSECMMP", "REP. M. ALEXANDER", "SUBSTANCE ABUSE", "CHAPTERED"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Holliman", "M. Alexander", "Wainwright"]
+version_count: 8
+action_count: 24
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2007-03-21"
+last_action: "2007-07-27"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0ffca0be-e875-44f9-baf7-ed9f00dbf3e3"
+source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2007&BillID=H973&votesToView=all"
+source_hash: "dc95ade92b6fe154f74cefe381161ebd4fad758187a7fb3c635c98af07647c9c"
+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 973 (2007) — Mental Health Equitable Coverage.
+
+## 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/2007/Bills/House/PDF/H973v0.pdf)
+2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/House/PDF/H973v1.pdf)
+3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/House/PDF/H973v2.pdf)
+4. **Edition 3** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/House/PDF/H973v3.pdf)
+5. **Edition 4** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/House/PDF/H973v4.pdf)
+6. **Edition 5** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/House/PDF/H973v5.pdf)
+7. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/House/PDF/H973v6.pdf)
+8. **SL2007-268** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/House/PDF/H973v7.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- M11 Concur — **111–2** (pass) · lower
+- Second Reading — **36–12** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Holliman — primary (person)
+- M. Alexander — primary (person)
+- Wainwright — primary (person)
+- Adams — cosponsor (person)
+- Blue — cosponsor (person)
+- Carney — cosponsor (person)
+- Church — cosponsor (person)
+- Coleman — cosponsor (person)
+- Crawford — cosponsor (person)
+- Cunningham — cosponsor (person)
+- E. Warren — cosponsor (person)
+- Earle — cosponsor (person)
+- Farmer-Butterfield — cosponsor (person)
+- Fisher — cosponsor (person)
+- Gibson — cosponsor (person)
+- Glazier — cosponsor (person)
+- Goforth — cosponsor (person)
+- Goodwin — cosponsor (person)
+- Hall — cosponsor (person)
+- Harrison — cosponsor (person)
+- Insko — cosponsor (person)
+- Jeffus — cosponsor (person)
+- Jones — cosponsor (person)
+- Lucas — cosponsor (person)
+- Luebke — cosponsor (person)
+- McLawhorn — cosponsor (person)
+- Mobley — cosponsor (person)
+- Parmon — cosponsor (person)
+- Ross — cosponsor (person)
+- Tarleton — cosponsor (person)
+- Tolson — cosponsor (person)
+- Weiss — cosponsor (person)
+- Wilkins — cosponsor (person)
+- Womble — cosponsor (person)
+- Wray — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2007-07-27** Ch. SL 2007-268 `became-law`
+- **2007-07-27** Signed By Gov. 7/27/2007 `executive-signature`
+- **2007-07-17** Pres. To Gov. 7/17/2007 `executive-receipt`
+- **2007-07-16** Ratified
+- **2007-07-12** Concurred In S/Com Sub `amendment-passage`
+- **2007-07-11** Placed On Cal For 7/12/2007
+- **2007-07-09** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
+- **2007-07-09** Rec To Concur S Com Sub
+- **2007-07-03** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
+- **2007-06-28** Placed On Cal For 7/3/2007
+- **2007-06-28** Com Substitute Adopted
+- **2007-06-28** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2007-05-24** Ref To Com On Health Care `referral-committee`
+- **2007-05-24** Rec From House
+- **2007-05-23** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
+- **2007-05-23** Amend Adopted 1 `amendment-passage`
+- **2007-05-22** Placed On Cal For 5/23/2007
+- **2007-05-22** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
+- **2007-05-22** Reptd Fav Com Sub 2 `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2007-05-08** Re-ref Com On Insurance `referral-committee`
+- **2007-05-08** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2007-03-22** Ref to the Com on Health and, if favorable, to the Com on Insurance `referral-committee`
+- **2007-03-22** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
+- **2007-03-21** Filed `introduction`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0ffca0be-e875-44f9-baf7-ed9f00dbf3e3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).
+