---
type: "Bill"
title: "Unborn Victims of Violence Act/Ethen's Law."
description: "Unborn Victims of Violence Act/Ethen's Law."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2011"
identifier: "HB 215"
citation: "North Carolina HB 215 (2011)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["COURTS", "CRIMES", "CRIMINAL PROCEDURE", "DEATH & DYING", "PREGNANCY", "PRESENTED", "PUBLIC", "PUBLIC HEALTH", "RATIFIED", "SENTENCING", "WOMEN", "REP. HILTON", "REP. STARNES", "HOMICIDE", "CHAPTERED", "REP. STEEN", "REP. FOLWELL", "NAMED LAWS"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Folwell", "Hilton", "Starnes"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 34
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2011-03-02"
last_action: "2011-04-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/af3b4c8a-3b00-4d30-a20c-90e44fcc6b85"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2011&BillID=H215&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "2289a5483708af1076a75054cecb170467b6abbf1a1b727969362a2cb1968ed9"
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 215 (2011) — Unborn Victims of Violence Act/Ethen's Law.

## 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/2011/Bills/House/PDF/H215v0.pdf)
2. **A1: ARV-6-V-1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://webservices.ncleg.net/ViewBillDocument/2011/172/0/H215-ARV-6-V-1)
3. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/House/PDF/H215v1.pdf)
4. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/House/PDF/H215v2.pdf)
5. **Edition 3** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/House/PDF/H215v3.pdf)
6. **Edition 4** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/House/PDF/H215v4.pdf)
7. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/House/PDF/H215v5.pdf)
8. **SL2011-60** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/House/PDF/H215v6.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **45–4** (pass) · upper
- M11 Concur — **78–39** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Folwell — primary (person)
- Hilton — primary (person)
- Starnes — primary (person)
- Avila — cosponsor (person)
- Blackwell — cosponsor (person)
- Blust — cosponsor (person)
- Bradley — cosponsor (person)
- Burr — cosponsor (person)
- Cleveland — cosponsor (person)
- Collins — cosponsor (person)
- Cook — cosponsor (person)
- Current — cosponsor (person)
- Dollar — cosponsor (person)
- Frye — cosponsor (person)
- Gillespie — cosponsor (person)
- H. Warren — cosponsor (person)
- Hastings — cosponsor (person)
- Hollo — cosponsor (person)
- Holloway — cosponsor (person)
- Horn — cosponsor (person)
- Hurley — cosponsor (person)
- Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Jones — cosponsor (person)
- Jordan — cosponsor (person)
- Killian — cosponsor (person)
- L. Brown — cosponsor (person)
- LaRoque — cosponsor (person)
- McElraft — cosponsor (person)
- Mills — cosponsor (person)
- Randleman — cosponsor (person)
- Samuelson — cosponsor (person)
- Sanderson — cosponsor (person)
- Setzer — cosponsor (person)
- Shepard — cosponsor (person)
- Stam — cosponsor (person)
- Steen — cosponsor (person)
- Stevens — cosponsor (person)
- Stone — cosponsor (person)
- T. Moore — cosponsor (person)
- Torbett — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2011-04-29** Ch. SL 2011-60 `became-law`
- **2011-04-29** Signed By Gov. 4/29/2011 `executive-signature`
- **2011-04-21** Pres. To Gov. 4/21/2011 `executive-receipt`
- **2011-04-20** Ratified
- **2011-04-19** Concurred In S/Com Sub `amendment-passage`
- **2011-04-18** Placed On Cal For 4/19/2011
- **2011-04-18** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2011-04-18** Rec To Concur S Com Sub
- **2011-04-14** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2011-04-14** Amend Failed 2 `amendment-failure`
- **2011-04-14** Amend Failed 1 `amendment-failure`
- **2011-04-13** Placed On Cal For 4/14/2011
- **2011-04-13** Withdrawn From Cal
- **2011-04-12** Placed On Cal For 4/13/2011
- **2011-04-12** Withdrawn From Cal
- **2011-04-11** Com Substitute Adopted
- **2011-04-11** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-03-28** Ref To Com On Judiciary II `referral-committee`
- **2011-03-28** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2011-03-25** Rec From House
- **2011-03-24** Ordered Engrossed
- **2011-03-24** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2011-03-24** Amend Failed 4 `amendment-failure`
- **2011-03-24** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2011-03-24** Amend Failed 3 `amendment-failure`
- **2011-03-24** Amend Failed 2 `amendment-failure`
- **2011-03-24** Amend Adopted 1 `amendment-passage`
- **2011-03-23** Placed On Cal For 3/24/2011
- **2011-03-23** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2011-03-23** Serial Referral to Appropriations Stricken
- **2011-03-23** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-03-03** Ref to the Com on Judiciary Subcommittee B, if favorable, Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2011-03-03** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2011-03-02** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/af3b4c8a-3b00-4d30-a20c-90e44fcc6b85`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).