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+type: "Bill"
+title: "The Jeff Rieg Law/Patients Religious Rights."
+description: "The Jeff Rieg Law/Patients Religious Rights."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
+legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
+session: "2021"
+identifier: "HB 447"
+citation: "North Carolina HB 447 (2021)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["CHAPTERED", "DISASTERS & EMERGENCIES", "DISEASES & HEALTH DISORDERS", "HEALTH SERVICES", "HOSPITALS", "NAMED LAWS", "PATIENT RIGHTS", "PRESENTED", "PUBLIC", "PUBLIC HEALTH", "PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCY", "RATIFIED", "RELIGION & RELIGIOUS INSTITUTIONS"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Elmore", "Hanig", "Kidwell"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 28
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2021-03-30"
+last_action: "2021-09-16"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f58afdc9-7f0c-43fd-a72e-63a293969072"
+source_url: "https://www.ncleg.gov/BillLookUp/2021/H447"
+source_hash: "7007ab0fa5b4117afb0f02c86524f5ecba99fdd081675eca23389dd712307d29"
+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 447 (2021) — The Jeff Rieg Law/Patients Religious Rights.
+
+## 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/House/PDF/H447v0.pdf)
+2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2021/Bills/House/PDF/H447v1.pdf)
+3. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2021/Bills/House/PDF/H447v2.pdf)
+4. **SL 2021-156** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2021/Bills/House/PDF/H447v3.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Second Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper
+- Second Reading — **98–19** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Elmore — primary (person)
+- Hanig — primary (person)
+- Kidwell — primary (person)
+- Arp — cosponsor (person)
+- Boles — cosponsor (person)
+- Carter — cosponsor (person)
+- Clampitt — cosponsor (person)
+- Cleveland — cosponsor (person)
+- Gillespie — cosponsor (person)
+- Goodwin — cosponsor (person)
+- Greene — cosponsor (person)
+- Howard — cosponsor (person)
+- Humphrey — cosponsor (person)
+- Hurley — cosponsor (person)
+- Johnson — cosponsor (person)
+- K. Baker — cosponsor (person)
+- McNeely — cosponsor (person)
+- McNeill — cosponsor (person)
+- Moffitt — cosponsor (person)
+- Moss — cosponsor (person)
+- Penny — cosponsor (person)
+- Pierce — cosponsor (person)
+- Pittman — cosponsor (person)
+- Pless — cosponsor (person)
+- Riddell — cosponsor (person)
+- Setzer — cosponsor (person)
+- Stevens — cosponsor (person)
+- Strickland — cosponsor (person)
+- White — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2021-09-16** Ch. SL 2021-156 `became-law`
+- **2021-09-16** Signed by Gov. 9/16/2021 `executive-signature`
+- **2021-09-07** Pres. To Gov. 9/7/2021 `executive-receipt`
+- **2021-09-03** Ratified
+- **2021-09-01** Ordered Enrolled
+- **2021-09-01** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
+- **2021-09-01** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
+- **2021-08-31** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2021-08-26** Re-ref Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
+- **2021-08-26** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2021-08-05** Re-ref to Health Care. If fav, re-ref to Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
+- **2021-08-05** Withdrawn From Com
+- **2021-05-06** Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
+- **2021-05-06** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
+- **2021-05-06** Regular Message Received From House
+- **2021-05-06** Regular Message Sent To Senate
+- **2021-05-05** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
+- **2021-05-05** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
+- **2021-05-04** Placed On Cal For 05/05/2021
+- **2021-05-04** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
+- **2021-05-04** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2021-04-28** Re-ref Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
+- **2021-04-28** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2021-04-20** Re-ref Com On State Government `referral-committee`
+- **2021-04-20** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2021-03-31** Ref to the Com on Health, if favorable, State Government, if favorable, Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
+- **2021-03-31** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
+- **2021-03-30** Filed `introduction`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f58afdc9-7f0c-43fd-a72e-63a293969072`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).
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