---
type: "Bill"
title: "Area Mental Health Background Check."
description: "Area Mental Health Background Check."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2001"
identifier: "HB 857"
citation: "North Carolina HB 857 (2001)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["AUTHORITIES", "CRIMINAL RECORDS", "EMPLOYMENT", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "PERSONNEL", "PRESENTED", "PUBLIC", "RATIFIED", "REP. ALEXANDER", "RECORDS", "CHAPTERED"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 4
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2001-03-28"
last_action: "2001-05-31"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4235b78b-f227-48b7-a258-1eb8ac0b63a0"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2001&BillID=H857&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "45e6abfbb928a494b4959bf1f84001bedc39d74b08d7fd50428a03d0debf3eee"
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 857 (2001) — Area Mental Health Background Check.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2001/Bills/House/PDF/H857v1.pdf)
2. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2001/Bills/House/PDF/H857v2.pdf)
3. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2001/Bills/House/PDF/H857v3.pdf)
4. **SL 2001-155** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2001/Bills/House/PDF/H857v4.pdf)

## Votes

- M11-CONCUR IN\SCS — **100–2** (pass) · lower
- Second Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Alexander — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2001-05-31** Ch. SL 2001-155 `became-law`
- **2001-05-31** Signed By Gov. 5/31/2001 `executive-signature`
- **2001-05-22** Pres. To Gov. 5/22/2001 `executive-receipt`
- **2001-05-21** Ratified
- **2001-05-17** Concurred In S/Com Sub `amendment-passage`
- **2001-05-16** Placed On Cal For 5/17/2001
- **2001-05-16** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2001-05-16** Rec To Concur S Com Sub
- **2001-05-14** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2001-05-10** Com Substitute Adopted
- **2001-05-10** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2001-04-18** Ref To Com On Children & Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2001-04-18** Rec From House
- **2001-04-17** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2001-04-16** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2001-04-12** Placed On Cal For 4/16/2001
- **2001-04-10** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2001-04-10** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2001-03-29** Ref To Com On Mental Health `referral-committee`
- **2001-03-28** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4235b78b-f227-48b7-a258-1eb8ac0b63a0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).