---
type: "Bill"
title: "Organ & Tissue Donation/The Heart Prevails."
description: "Organ & Tissue Donation/The Heart Prevails."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2007"
identifier: "HB 1372"
citation: "North Carolina HB 1372 (2007)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["DATA SYSTEMS", "DEATH & DYING", "DMV", "DRIVERS LICENSES", "HEALTH SERVICES", "HUMAN BLOOD & ORGANS", "INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY", "INTERNET", "LICENSES & PERMITS", "MEDICAL EXAMINERS", "MOTOR VEHICLES", "ORGAN DONATIONS", "POWER OF ATTORNEY", "PRESENTED", "PUBLIC", "PUBLIC HEALTH", "RATIFIED", "TELESERVICES", "TITLE CHANGE", "REP. CLARY", "REP. HOLLIMAN", "REP. WAINWRIGHT", "RECORDS", "LIABILITY", "CHAPTERED", "REP. FOLWELL"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Clary", "Folwell", "Holliman"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 28
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2007-04-05"
last_action: "2007-08-31"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7c295142-4773-409f-8fe8-f123e63c270b"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2007&BillID=H1372&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "126bd17b30a5d03b1cd4c82573191bfee81e444e35c18b26feddd65cab405f7f"
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 1372 (2007) — Organ & Tissue Donation/The Heart Prevails.

## 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/2007/Bills/House/PDF/H1372v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/House/PDF/H1372v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/House/PDF/H1372v2.pdf)
4. **Edition 3** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/House/PDF/H1372v3.pdf)
5. **Edition 4** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/House/PDF/H1372v4.pdf)
6. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/House/PDF/H1372v5.pdf)
7. **SL2007-538** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/House/PDF/H1372v6.pdf)

## Votes

- M11 Concur — **110–0** (pass) · lower
- Second Reading — **48–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Clary — primary (person)
- Folwell — primary (person)
- Holliman — primary (person)
- Current — cosponsor (person)
- Faison — cosponsor (person)
- Glazier — cosponsor (person)
- Harrison — cosponsor (person)
- Justice — cosponsor (person)
- Neumann — cosponsor (person)
- Tarleton — cosponsor (person)
- Wainwright — cosponsor (person)
- Wray — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2007-08-31** Ch. SL 2007-538 `became-law`
- **2007-08-31** Signed By Gov. 8/31/2007 `executive-signature`
- **2007-07-27** Pres. To Gov. 7/27/2007 `executive-receipt`
- **2007-07-27** Ratified
- **2007-07-26** Concurred In S/Com Sub `amendment-passage`
- **2007-07-25** Placed On Cal For 7/26/2007
- **2007-07-25** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2007-07-25** Rec To Concur S Com Sub
- **2007-07-25** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2007-07-24** Placed On Cal For 7/25/2007
- **2007-07-24** Withdrawn From Comm
- **2007-07-23** Re-ref Com On Finance `referral-committee`
- **2007-07-23** Com Substitute Adopted
- **2007-07-23** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2007-06-20** Re-ref Com On Judiciary II (Criminal) `referral-committee`
- **2007-06-20** Com Substitute Adopted
- **2007-06-20** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2007-05-21** Ref to Health Care. If fav, re-ref to Judiciary II (Criminal) `referral-committee`
- **2007-05-21** Rec From House
- **2007-05-16** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2007-05-15** Placed On Cal For 5/16/2007
- **2007-05-15** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2007-05-15** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2007-05-02** Re-ref Com On Judiciary I `referral-committee`
- **2007-05-02** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2007-04-09** Ref to the Com on Health and, if favorable, to the Com on Judiciary I `referral-committee`
- **2007-04-09** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2007-04-05** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7c295142-4773-409f-8fe8-f123e63c270b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).