---
type: "Bill"
title: "Establish Health Insurance Risk Pool."
description: "Establish Health Insurance Risk Pool."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2007"
identifier: "HB 265"
citation: "North Carolina HB 265 (2007)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ACTUARIAL NOTES", "AGING", "APPOINTMENTS", "APPROPRIATIONS", "BOARDS", "BUDGETING", "COMMERCE", "COMMITTEES", "CORPORATIONS", "FOR-PROFIT", "COUNCIL OF STATE", "FUNDS & ACCOUNTS", "GENERAL ASSEMBLY", "GOVERNOR", "HEALTH CARE OVERSIGHT COMM.", "HEALTH SERVICES", "INSURANCE", "INSURANCE DEPT.", "INSURANCE", "HEALTH", "MEDICAID", "MEDICARE", "MEMBERSHIP", "POVERTY", "PRESENTED", "PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE", "PUBLIC", "PUBLIC OFFICIALS", "RATIFIED", "REPORTS", "SALARIES & BENEFITS", "SMALL BUSINESSES", "SOCIAL SERVICES", "SPEAKER", "STATE EMPLOYEES", "STUDIES", "TEACHERS", "TITLE CHANGE", "TOBACCO", "TSECMMP", "REP. HOLLIMAN", "REP. INSKO", "CHAPTERED", "HEALTH & WELLNESS TRUST FUND", "REP. ENGLAND", "REP. UNDERHILL", "INSURANCE COMMISSIONER", "HEALTH INSURANCE POOL BOARD"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["England", "Holliman", "Insko"]
version_count: 12
action_count: 40
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2007-02-19"
last_action: "2007-08-31"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a9fffd98-e427-45cc-bbb1-eeeb3bd51c1e"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2007&BillID=H265&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "e50bdc018b7790e4f61118ed028d8f83616f21a98d89dd164ef28eb9cf0d2966"
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 265 (2007) — Establish Health Insurance Risk Pool.

## 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/H265v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/House/PDF/H265v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/House/PDF/H265v2.pdf)
4. **Edition 3** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/House/PDF/H265v3.pdf)
5. **Edition 4** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/House/PDF/H265v4.pdf)
6. **Edition 5** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/House/PDF/H265v5.pdf)
7. **Edition 6** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/House/PDF/H265v6.pdf)
8. **Edition 7** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/House/PDF/H265v7.pdf)
9. **Edition 8** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/House/PDF/H265v8.pdf)
10. **Edition 9** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/House/PDF/H265v9.pdf)
11. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/House/PDF/H265v10.pdf)
12. **SL2007-532** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/House/PDF/H265v11.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper
- M11 Concur — **113–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- England — primary (person)
- Holliman — primary (person)
- Insko — primary (person)
- Barnhart — cosponsor (person)
- Bell — cosponsor (person)
- Brown — cosponsor (person)
- Carney — cosponsor (person)
- Coleman — cosponsor (person)
- Dickson — cosponsor (person)
- Dockham — cosponsor (person)
- Dollar — cosponsor (person)
- E. Warren — cosponsor (person)
- Earle — cosponsor (person)
- Faison — cosponsor (person)
- Farmer-Butterfield — cosponsor (person)
- Fisher — cosponsor (person)
- Glazier — cosponsor (person)
- Hall — cosponsor (person)
- Harrison — cosponsor (person)
- J. Harrell — cosponsor (person)
- Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Justus — cosponsor (person)
- Lewis — cosponsor (person)
- Love — cosponsor (person)
- Lucas — cosponsor (person)
- Luebke — cosponsor (person)
- M. Alexander — cosponsor (person)
- Martin — cosponsor (person)
- McAllister — cosponsor (person)
- McGee — cosponsor (person)
- McLawhorn — cosponsor (person)
- Moore — cosponsor (person)
- Pate — cosponsor (person)
- Rapp — cosponsor (person)
- Ray — cosponsor (person)
- Saunders — cosponsor (person)
- Setzer — cosponsor (person)
- Spear — cosponsor (person)
- Starnes — cosponsor (person)
- Tarleton — cosponsor (person)
- Tucker — cosponsor (person)
- Underhill — cosponsor (person)
- Wainwright — cosponsor (person)
- Walend — cosponsor (person)
- Walker — cosponsor (person)
- Weiss — cosponsor (person)
- Wiley — cosponsor (person)
- Wilkins — cosponsor (person)
- Williams — cosponsor (person)
- Womble — cosponsor (person)
- Wray — cosponsor (person)
- Wright — cosponsor (person)
- Yongue — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2007-08-31** Ch. SL 2007-532 `became-law`
- **2007-08-31** Signed By Gov. 8/31/2007 `executive-signature`
- **2007-08-02** Pres. To Gov. 8/2/2007 `executive-receipt`
- **2007-08-02** Ratified
- **2007-08-02** Concurred In S/Com Sub `amendment-passage`
- **2007-08-01** Placed On Cal For 8/2/2007
- **2007-08-01** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2007-08-01** Rec To Concur S Com Sub
- **2007-08-01** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2007-07-31** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2007-07-31** Placed On Cal For 7/31/2007
- **2007-07-31** Com Amend Adpt & Engross 1 & 2
- **2007-07-31** Reptd Fav As Amended `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2007-07-26** Re-ref Com On Appropriations/Base Budget `referral-committee`
- **2007-07-26** Com Amend Adpt & Engross 1
- **2007-07-26** Reptd Fav As Amended `committee-passage-favorable`
- **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`
- **2007-05-02** Ref To Com On Commerce, Small Business and Entrepreneurship `referral-committee`
- **2007-05-02** Rec From House
- **2007-05-01** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2007-04-30** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2007-04-30** Amend Failed 3 `amendment-failure`
- **2007-04-30** Amend Failed 2 `amendment-failure`
- **2007-04-30** Amend Adopted 1 `amendment-passage`
- **2007-04-25** Postponed To 4/30/2007
- **2007-04-24** Placed On Cal For 4/25/2007
- **2007-04-18** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2007-04-18** Reptd Fav Com Sub 4 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2007-04-16** Assigned To Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services `referral-committee`
- **2007-03-29** Re-ref Com On Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2007-03-29** Reptd Fav Com Sub 3 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2007-03-06** Re-ref Com On Finance `referral-committee`
- **2007-03-06** Reptd Fav Com Sub 2 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2007-02-27** Re-ref Com On Insurance `referral-committee`
- **2007-02-27** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2007-02-20** Ref to the Com on Health and, if favorable, to the Com on Insurance `referral-committee`
- **2007-02-20** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2007-02-19** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a9fffd98-e427-45cc-bbb1-eeeb3bd51c1e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).