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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Health Insurance Coverage/Lymphedema."
+description: "Health Insurance Coverage/Lymphedema."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
+legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
+session: "2009"
+identifier: "HB 535"
+citation: "North Carolina HB 535 (2009)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["ACTUARIAL NOTES", "BOARDS", "DISEASES", "EMPLOYMENT", "HEALTH SERVICES", "INSURANCE", "INSURANCE", "HEALTH", "LICENSING & CERTIFICATION", "OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY", "OCCUPATIONS", "PHYSICAL THERAPY", "PHYSICAL THERAPY BOARD", "PRESENTED", "PUBLIC", "PUBLIC HEALTH", "RATIFIED", "SALARIES & BENEFITS", "STATE EMPLOYEES", "TEACHERS", "STATE HEALTH PLAN", "CHAPTERED", "OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY BOARD", "REP. COTHAM"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Cotham", "England", "Insko"]
+version_count: 5
+action_count: 24
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2009-03-11"
+last_action: "2009-07-17"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/26aa71a5-828a-46a6-883c-439f20cad1cb"
+source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2009&BillID=H535&votesToView=all"
+source_hash: "02d59d22133826f3bf555939e113e475c47adb10e51072ee9db628493bb567ae"
+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 535 (2009) — Health Insurance Coverage/Lymphedema.
+
+## 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/2009/Bills/House/PDF/H535v0.pdf)
+2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/House/PDF/H535v1.pdf)
+3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/House/PDF/H535v2.pdf)
+4. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/House/PDF/H535v3.pdf)
+5. **SL2009-313** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/House/PDF/H535v4.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Second Reading — **107–9** (pass) · lower
+- Second Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Cotham — primary (person)
+- England — primary (person)
+- Insko — primary (person)
+- Blue — cosponsor (person)
+- Boles — cosponsor (person)
+- Brown — cosponsor (person)
+- Bryant — cosponsor (person)
+- Burris-Floyd — cosponsor (person)
+- Carney — cosponsor (person)
+- Current — cosponsor (person)
+- Earle — cosponsor (person)
+- Faison — cosponsor (person)
+- Gibson — cosponsor (person)
+- Glazier — cosponsor (person)
+- Goforth — cosponsor (person)
+- Gulley — cosponsor (person)
+- Harrell — cosponsor (person)
+- Harrison — cosponsor (person)
+- Howard — cosponsor (person)
+- Jones — cosponsor (person)
+- Lucas — cosponsor (person)
+- M. Alexander — cosponsor (person)
+- Mackey — cosponsor (person)
+- McLawhorn — cosponsor (person)
+- Rapp — cosponsor (person)
+- Stewart — cosponsor (person)
+- Tarleton — cosponsor (person)
+- Tillis — cosponsor (person)
+- Wainwright — cosponsor (person)
+- Whilden — cosponsor (person)
+- Wilkins — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2009-07-17** Ch. SL 2009-313 `became-law`
+- **2009-07-17** Signed By Gov. 7/17/2009 `executive-signature`
+- **2009-07-10** Pres. To Gov. 7/10/2009 `executive-receipt`
+- **2009-07-09** Ratified
+- **2009-07-08** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
+- **2009-07-01** Placed On Cal For 7/8/2009
+- **2009-07-01** Withdrawn From Cal
+- **2009-06-29** Placed On Cal For 7/1/2009
+- **2009-06-29** Withdrawn From Com
+- **2009-06-24** Re-ref Com On Appropriations/Base Budget `referral-committee`
+- **2009-06-24** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2009-06-04** Ref to Health Care. If fav, re-ref to Appropriations/Base Budget `referral-committee`
+- **2009-06-04** Withdrawn From Com
+- **2009-05-19** Ref to Commerce. If fav, re-ref to Appropriations/Base Budget `referral-committee`
+- **2009-05-14** Rec From House
+- **2009-05-14** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
+- **2009-05-13** Placed On Cal For 5/14/2009
+- **2009-05-13** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
+- **2009-05-13** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2009-05-05** Re-ref Com On Insurance `referral-committee`
+- **2009-05-05** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2009-03-12** Ref to the Com on Health, if favorable, Insurance, if favorable, Appropriations `referral-committee`
+- **2009-03-12** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
+- **2009-03-11** Filed `introduction`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/26aa71a5-828a-46a6-883c-439f20cad1cb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).
+