---
type: "Bill"
title: "Health Care Provider Liens."
description: "Health Care Provider Liens."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2003"
identifier: "SB 1011"
citation: "North Carolina SB 1011 (2003)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ATTORNEYS", "COURTS", "DEBTOR & CREDITOR", "HEALTH SERVICES", "LIENS", "PRESENTED", "PUBLIC", "RATIFIED", "TORTS", "SEN. BERGER", "CHAPTERED"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 7
action_count: 22
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2003-04-02"
last_action: "2003-07-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/dba75ff4-4e00-45a1-87b9-d9722a4d68f4"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2003&BillID=S1011&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "fa83ae904f5846a4a28fb6f160e3fb102a758e9d71699707d403f2efcfb15892"
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 SB 1011 (2003) — Health Care Provider Liens.

## 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/Senate/PDF/S1011v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/Senate/PDF/S1011v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/Senate/PDF/S1011v2.pdf)
4. **Edition 3** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/Senate/PDF/S1011v3.pdf)
5. **Edition 4** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/Senate/PDF/S1011v4.pdf)
6. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/Senate/PDF/S1011v5.pdf)
7. **SL 2003-309** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/Senate/PDF/S1011v6.pdf)

## Votes

- Motion 8\To Concur — **49–0** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **109–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Berger — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2003-07-07** Ch. SL 2003-309 `became-law`
- **2003-07-07** Signed By Gov. 7/4/2003 `executive-signature`
- **2003-06-28** Pres. To Gov. 6/27/2003 `executive-receipt`
- **2003-06-26** Ratified
- **2003-06-25** Concurred In H/com Sub `amendment-passage`
- **2003-06-24** Placed On Cal For 6/25/2003
- **2003-06-24** Rec To Concur H Com Sub
- **2003-06-23** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2003-06-18** Postponed To 6/23/2003
- **2003-06-18** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2003-06-17** Placed On Cal For 6/18/2003
- **2003-06-11** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2003-06-11** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2003-04-29** Ref To Com On Judiciary I `referral-committee`
- **2003-04-29** Rec From Senate
- **2003-04-24** Engrossed
- **2003-04-24** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2003-04-24** Amend Adopted # 1 `amendment-passage`
- **2003-04-23** Com Substitute Adopted
- **2003-04-23** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2003-04-03** Ref To Com On Judiciary I `referral-committee`
- **2003-04-02** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/dba75ff4-4e00-45a1-87b9-d9722a4d68f4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).