---
type: "Bill"
title: "Health Insurance/Marriage & Family Therapists."
description: "Health Insurance/Marriage & Family Therapists."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2003"
identifier: "HB 462"
citation: "North Carolina HB 462 (2003)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["COUNSELING", "FISCAL NOTES", "HEALTH SERVICES", "INSURANCE", "INSURANCE", "HEALTH", "MARRIAGE & FAMILY", "MENTAL HEALTH", "PRESENTED", "PSYCHOLOGY", "PUBLIC", "RATIFIED", "REP. ALEXANDER", "REP. G. WILSON", "CHAPTERED"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Alexander"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2003-03-12"
last_action: "2003-06-02"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f1bce606-a4aa-4a07-81d2-ed828897831c"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2003&BillID=H462&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "0a069584d05b4f068f74d7ff92590c3a5a1338c14fd26a2338d78ff72a5ff68a"
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 462 (2003) — Health Insurance/Marriage & Family Therapists.

## 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/2003/Bills/House/PDF/H462v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/House/PDF/H462v1.pdf)
3. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/House/PDF/H462v2.pdf)
4. **SL 2003-117** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/House/PDF/H462v3.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **50–0** (pass) · upper
- Second Reading — **109–6** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Alexander — primary (person)
- G. Wilson — cosponsor (person)
- Wainwright — cosponsor (person)
- Warner — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2003-06-02** Ch. SL 2003-117 `became-law`
- **2003-06-02** Signed By Gov. 6/1/2003 `executive-signature`
- **2003-05-27** Pres. To Gov. 5/23/2003 `executive-receipt`
- **2003-05-22** Ratified
- **2003-05-21** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2003-05-14** Placed On Cal For 5/21/2003
- **2003-05-14** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2003-04-10** Ref To Com On Health & Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2003-04-10** Rec From House
- **2003-04-09** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2003-04-02** Postponed To 4/9/2003
- **2003-03-31** Placed On Cal For 4/1/2003
- **2003-03-26** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2003-03-26** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2003-03-13** Ref To Com On Children, Youth and Families `referral-committee`
- **2003-03-12** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f1bce606-a4aa-4a07-81d2-ed828897831c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).