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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Freedom to Negotiate Health Care Rates."
+description: "Freedom to Negotiate Health Care Rates."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
+legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
+session: "2013"
+identifier: "HB 247"
+citation: "North Carolina HB 247 (2013)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["COMMERCE", "CONTRACTS", "CORPORATIONS", "NONPROFIT", "HEALTH SERVICES", "INSURANCE", "INSURANCE", "HEALTH", "PRESENTED", "PUBLIC", "RATIFIED", "CHAPTERED"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Avila", "Burr", "Starnes"]
+version_count: 5
+action_count: 23
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2013-03-06"
+last_action: "2013-05-08"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e7f77b79-4357-4d60-8e3a-f5e7ad3f0ca4"
+source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2013&BillID=H247&votesToView=all"
+source_hash: "3751d63c2cc669ee40fc62682b6e2238d55f81ce7eccb8d31d364f02205a9fc9"
+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 247 (2013) — Freedom to Negotiate Health Care Rates.
+
+## 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/2013/Bills/House/PDF/H247v0.pdf)
+2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2013/Bills/House/PDF/H247v1.pdf)
+3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2013/Bills/House/PDF/H247v2.pdf)
+4. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2013/Bills/House/PDF/H247v3.pdf)
+5. **SL2013-46** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2013/Bills/House/PDF/H247v4.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Second Reading — **102–10** (pass) · lower
+- SECOND READING — **40–7** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Avila — primary (person)
+- Burr — primary (person)
+- Starnes — primary (person)
+- Glazier — cosponsor (person)
+- Hollo — cosponsor (person)
+- Lambeth — cosponsor (person)
+- McElraft — cosponsor (person)
+- Setzer — cosponsor (person)
+- Shepard — cosponsor (person)
+- Steinburg — cosponsor (person)
+- Stone — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2013-05-08** Ch. SL 2013-46 `became-law`
+- **2013-05-08** Signed by Gov. 5/8/2013 `executive-signature`
+- **2013-05-01** Pres. To Gov. 5/1/2013 `executive-receipt`
+- **2013-04-30** Ratified
+- **2013-04-29** Ordered Enrolled
+- **2013-04-29** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
+- **2013-04-29** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
+- **2013-04-25** Placed On Cal For 04/29/2013
+- **2013-04-25** Withdrawn From Cal
+- **2013-04-24** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2013-04-01** Ref To Com On Insurance `referral-committee`
+- **2013-04-01** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
+- **2013-04-01** Rec From House
+- **2013-03-28** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
+- **2013-03-28** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
+- **2013-03-27** Placed On Cal For 03/28/2013
+- **2013-03-27** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
+- **2013-03-27** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2013-03-14** Re-ref Com On Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2013-03-14** Withdrawn From Com
+- **2013-03-07** Ref To Com On Judiciary Subcommittee A `referral-committee`
+- **2013-03-07** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
+- **2013-03-06** Filed `introduction`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e7f77b79-4357-4d60-8e3a-f5e7ad3f0ca4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).
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