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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Unborn Victims of Violence Act/Ethen's Law."
+description: "Unborn Victims of Violence Act/Ethen's Law."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
+legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
+session: "2011"
+identifier: "HB 215"
+citation: "North Carolina HB 215 (2011)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["COURTS", "CRIMES", "CRIMINAL PROCEDURE", "DEATH & DYING", "PREGNANCY", "PRESENTED", "PUBLIC", "PUBLIC HEALTH", "RATIFIED", "SENTENCING", "WOMEN", "REP. HILTON", "REP. STARNES", "HOMICIDE", "CHAPTERED", "REP. STEEN", "REP. FOLWELL", "NAMED LAWS"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Folwell", "Hilton", "Starnes"]
+version_count: 8
+action_count: 34
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2011-03-02"
+last_action: "2011-04-29"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/af3b4c8a-3b00-4d30-a20c-90e44fcc6b85"
+source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2011&BillID=H215&votesToView=all"
+source_hash: "2289a5483708af1076a75054cecb170467b6abbf1a1b727969362a2cb1968ed9"
+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 215 (2011) — Unborn Victims of Violence Act/Ethen's Law.
+
+## 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/2011/Bills/House/PDF/H215v0.pdf)
+2. **A1: ARV-6-V-1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://webservices.ncleg.net/ViewBillDocument/2011/172/0/H215-ARV-6-V-1)
+3. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/House/PDF/H215v1.pdf)
+4. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/House/PDF/H215v2.pdf)
+5. **Edition 3** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/House/PDF/H215v3.pdf)
+6. **Edition 4** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/House/PDF/H215v4.pdf)
+7. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/House/PDF/H215v5.pdf)
+8. **SL2011-60** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/House/PDF/H215v6.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Second Reading — **45–4** (pass) · upper
+- M11 Concur — **78–39** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Folwell — primary (person)
+- Hilton — primary (person)
+- Starnes — primary (person)
+- Avila — cosponsor (person)
+- Blackwell — cosponsor (person)
+- Blust — cosponsor (person)
+- Bradley — cosponsor (person)
+- Burr — cosponsor (person)
+- Cleveland — cosponsor (person)
+- Collins — cosponsor (person)
+- Cook — cosponsor (person)
+- Current — cosponsor (person)
+- Dollar — cosponsor (person)
+- Frye — cosponsor (person)
+- Gillespie — cosponsor (person)
+- H. Warren — cosponsor (person)
+- Hastings — cosponsor (person)
+- Hollo — cosponsor (person)
+- Holloway — cosponsor (person)
+- Horn — cosponsor (person)
+- Hurley — cosponsor (person)
+- Johnson — cosponsor (person)
+- Jones — cosponsor (person)
+- Jordan — cosponsor (person)
+- Killian — cosponsor (person)
+- L. Brown — cosponsor (person)
+- LaRoque — cosponsor (person)
+- McElraft — cosponsor (person)
+- Mills — cosponsor (person)
+- Randleman — cosponsor (person)
+- Samuelson — cosponsor (person)
+- Sanderson — cosponsor (person)
+- Setzer — cosponsor (person)
+- Shepard — cosponsor (person)
+- Stam — cosponsor (person)
+- Steen — cosponsor (person)
+- Stevens — cosponsor (person)
+- Stone — cosponsor (person)
+- T. Moore — cosponsor (person)
+- Torbett — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2011-04-29** Ch. SL 2011-60 `became-law`
+- **2011-04-29** Signed By Gov. 4/29/2011 `executive-signature`
+- **2011-04-21** Pres. To Gov. 4/21/2011 `executive-receipt`
+- **2011-04-20** Ratified
+- **2011-04-19** Concurred In S/Com Sub `amendment-passage`
+- **2011-04-18** Placed On Cal For 4/19/2011
+- **2011-04-18** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
+- **2011-04-18** Rec To Concur S Com Sub
+- **2011-04-14** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
+- **2011-04-14** Amend Failed 2 `amendment-failure`
+- **2011-04-14** Amend Failed 1 `amendment-failure`
+- **2011-04-13** Placed On Cal For 4/14/2011
+- **2011-04-13** Withdrawn From Cal
+- **2011-04-12** Placed On Cal For 4/13/2011
+- **2011-04-12** Withdrawn From Cal
+- **2011-04-11** Com Substitute Adopted
+- **2011-04-11** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2011-03-28** Ref To Com On Judiciary II `referral-committee`
+- **2011-03-28** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
+- **2011-03-25** Rec From House
+- **2011-03-24** Ordered Engrossed
+- **2011-03-24** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
+- **2011-03-24** Amend Failed 4 `amendment-failure`
+- **2011-03-24** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
+- **2011-03-24** Amend Failed 3 `amendment-failure`
+- **2011-03-24** Amend Failed 2 `amendment-failure`
+- **2011-03-24** Amend Adopted 1 `amendment-passage`
+- **2011-03-23** Placed On Cal For 3/24/2011
+- **2011-03-23** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
+- **2011-03-23** Serial Referral to Appropriations Stricken
+- **2011-03-23** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2011-03-03** Ref to the Com on Judiciary Subcommittee B, if favorable, Appropriations `referral-committee`
+- **2011-03-03** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
+- **2011-03-02** Filed `introduction`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/af3b4c8a-3b00-4d30-a20c-90e44fcc6b85`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).
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