---
type: "Bill"
title: "Abortion-Woman's Right to Know Act."
description: "Abortion-Woman's Right to Know Act."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2011"
identifier: "HB 854"
citation: "North Carolina HB 854 (2011)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ABORTION", "CLINICS", "HEALTH SERVICES", "MINORS", "NOTARY PUBLIC", "NOTIFICATION", "OCCUPATIONS", "PHYSICIANS", "PREGNANCY", "PRESENTED", "PUBLIC", "PUBLIC HEALTH", "RADIOLOGY", "RATIFIED", "VETOED", "WOMEN", "CHAPTERED", "VETO OVERRIDDEN", "REP. STAM", "REP. MCELRAFT", "REP. SAMUELSON"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Samuelson"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 32
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2011-04-06"
last_action: "2011-07-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/18da3a1f-3616-4ea9-9b64-892b1d87863f"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2011&BillID=H854&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "f3f5ec582d9cf37205091ae593d001df4a3b47ec3c85452935fb1a8e34678832"
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 854 (2011) — Abortion-Woman's Right to Know Act.

## 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/H854v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/House/PDF/H854v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/House/PDF/H854v2.pdf)
4. **Edition 3** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/House/PDF/H854v3.pdf)
5. **Edition 4** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/House/PDF/H854v4.pdf)
6. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/House/PDF/H854v5.pdf)
7. **SL2011-405** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/House/PDF/H854v6.pdf)

## Votes

- Veto Override — **72–47** (pass) · lower
- Motion 11\OVERRIDE VETO — **29–19** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Samuelson — primary (person)
- Avila — cosponsor (person)
- Blackwell — cosponsor (person)
- Blust — cosponsor (person)
- Burr — cosponsor (person)
- Cleveland — cosponsor (person)
- Collins — cosponsor (person)
- Cook — cosponsor (person)
- Current — cosponsor (person)
- Dixon — cosponsor (person)
- Dockham — cosponsor (person)
- Faircloth — cosponsor (person)
- Folwell — cosponsor (person)
- Frye — cosponsor (person)
- Gillespie — cosponsor (person)
- Guice — cosponsor (person)
- H. Warren — cosponsor (person)
- Hager — cosponsor (person)
- Hastings — cosponsor (person)
- Hilton — cosponsor (person)
- Hollo — cosponsor (person)
- Holloway — cosponsor (person)
- Horn — cosponsor (person)
- Hurley — cosponsor (person)
- Iler — cosponsor (person)
- Ingle — cosponsor (person)
- Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Jones — cosponsor (person)
- Jordan — cosponsor (person)
- Justice — cosponsor (person)
- Killian — cosponsor (person)
- LaRoque — cosponsor (person)
- McElraft — cosponsor (person)
- Pridgen — cosponsor (person)
- R. Brown — cosponsor (person)
- Randleman — cosponsor (person)
- Sanderson — cosponsor (person)
- Shepard — cosponsor (person)
- Stam — cosponsor (person)
- Starnes — cosponsor (person)
- Steen — cosponsor (person)
- Stevens — cosponsor (person)
- T. Moore — cosponsor (person)
- Torbett — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2011-07-28** Ch. SL 2011-405 `became-law`
- **2011-07-28** Veto Overridden `veto-override-passage`
- **2011-07-27** Placed On Cal For 7/28/2011
- **2011-07-27** Rec From House
- **2011-07-26** Veto Overridden `veto-override-passage`
- **2011-07-13** Placed On Cal For 7/25/2011
- **2011-07-13** Received from the Governor
- **2011-06-27** Vetoed 6/27/2011 `executive-veto`
- **2011-06-17** Pres. To Gov. 6/17/2011 `executive-receipt`
- **2011-06-16** Ratified
- **2011-06-15** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2011-06-15** Placed On Cal For 6/15/2011
- **2011-06-15** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-06-14** Re-ref Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2011-06-14** Withdrawn From Com
- **2011-06-09** Ref To Com On Judiciary I `referral-committee`
- **2011-06-09** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2011-06-09** Rec From House
- **2011-06-08** Ordered Engrossed
- **2011-06-08** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2011-06-08** Amend Adopted 1 `amendment-passage`
- **2011-06-07** Placed On Cal For 6/7/2011
- **2011-06-07** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2011-06-07** Reptd Fav Com Sub 2 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-05-18** Assigned To Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services `referral-committee`
- **2011-05-12** Re-ref Com On Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2011-05-12** Pursuant Rule 38a
- **2011-05-12** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-04-12** Assigned To Judiciary Subcommittee B `referral-committee`
- **2011-04-07** Ref To Com On Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2011-04-07** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2011-04-06** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/18da3a1f-3616-4ea9-9b64-892b1d87863f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).