---
type: "Bill"
title: "Mental Health Equitable Coverage."
description: "Mental Health Equitable Coverage."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2007"
identifier: "HB 973"
citation: "North Carolina HB 973 (2007)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["HEALTH SERVICES", "INSURANCE", "INSURANCE", "HEALTH", "MENTAL HEALTH", "PRESENTED", "PUBLIC", "PUBLIC HEALTH", "RATIFIED", "SALARIES & BENEFITS", "STATE EMPLOYEES", "TEACHERS", "TSECMMP", "REP. M. ALEXANDER", "SUBSTANCE ABUSE", "CHAPTERED"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Holliman", "M. Alexander", "Wainwright"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 24
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2007-03-21"
last_action: "2007-07-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0ffca0be-e875-44f9-baf7-ed9f00dbf3e3"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2007&BillID=H973&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "dc95ade92b6fe154f74cefe381161ebd4fad758187a7fb3c635c98af07647c9c"
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 973 (2007) — Mental Health Equitable Coverage.

## 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/H973v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/House/PDF/H973v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/House/PDF/H973v2.pdf)
4. **Edition 3** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/House/PDF/H973v3.pdf)
5. **Edition 4** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/House/PDF/H973v4.pdf)
6. **Edition 5** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/House/PDF/H973v5.pdf)
7. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/House/PDF/H973v6.pdf)
8. **SL2007-268** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/House/PDF/H973v7.pdf)

## Votes

- M11 Concur — **111–2** (pass) · lower
- Second Reading — **36–12** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Holliman — primary (person)
- M. Alexander — primary (person)
- Wainwright — primary (person)
- Adams — cosponsor (person)
- Blue — cosponsor (person)
- Carney — cosponsor (person)
- Church — cosponsor (person)
- Coleman — cosponsor (person)
- Crawford — cosponsor (person)
- Cunningham — cosponsor (person)
- E. Warren — cosponsor (person)
- Earle — cosponsor (person)
- Farmer-Butterfield — cosponsor (person)
- Fisher — cosponsor (person)
- Gibson — cosponsor (person)
- Glazier — cosponsor (person)
- Goforth — cosponsor (person)
- Goodwin — cosponsor (person)
- Hall — cosponsor (person)
- Harrison — cosponsor (person)
- Insko — cosponsor (person)
- Jeffus — cosponsor (person)
- Jones — cosponsor (person)
- Lucas — cosponsor (person)
- Luebke — cosponsor (person)
- McLawhorn — cosponsor (person)
- Mobley — cosponsor (person)
- Parmon — cosponsor (person)
- Ross — cosponsor (person)
- Tarleton — cosponsor (person)
- Tolson — cosponsor (person)
- Weiss — cosponsor (person)
- Wilkins — cosponsor (person)
- Womble — cosponsor (person)
- Wray — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2007-07-27** Ch. SL 2007-268 `became-law`
- **2007-07-27** Signed By Gov. 7/27/2007 `executive-signature`
- **2007-07-17** Pres. To Gov. 7/17/2007 `executive-receipt`
- **2007-07-16** Ratified
- **2007-07-12** Concurred In S/Com Sub `amendment-passage`
- **2007-07-11** Placed On Cal For 7/12/2007
- **2007-07-09** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2007-07-09** Rec To Concur S Com Sub
- **2007-07-03** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2007-06-28** Placed On Cal For 7/3/2007
- **2007-06-28** Com Substitute Adopted
- **2007-06-28** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2007-05-24** Ref To Com On Health Care `referral-committee`
- **2007-05-24** Rec From House
- **2007-05-23** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2007-05-23** Amend Adopted 1 `amendment-passage`
- **2007-05-22** Placed On Cal For 5/23/2007
- **2007-05-22** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2007-05-22** Reptd Fav Com Sub 2 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2007-05-08** Re-ref Com On Insurance `referral-committee`
- **2007-05-08** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2007-03-22** Ref to the Com on Health and, if favorable, to the Com on Insurance `referral-committee`
- **2007-03-22** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2007-03-21** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0ffca0be-e875-44f9-baf7-ed9f00dbf3e3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).