---
type: "Bill"
title: "Mental Health Crisis Management."
description: "Mental Health Crisis Management."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2011"
identifier: "SB 347"
citation: "North Carolina SB 347 (2011)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CLINICS", "DHHS", "DISEASES", "HEALTH SERVICES", "HOSPITALS", "INSTITUTIONALIZED PERSONS", "MENTAL HEALTH", "NOTIFICATION", "PRESENTED", "PUBLIC", "PUBLIC HEALTH", "RATIFIED", "SOCIAL SERVICES", "TITLE CHANGE", "SEN. BINGHAM", "SEN. PURCELL", "CHAPTERED", "SEN. MANSFIELD", "LMES"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bingham", "Purcell"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2011-03-15"
last_action: "2012-06-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a7462204-69e4-4e9c-bf88-697935d9ad9a"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2011&BillID=S347&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "2fa2d59cb9724ef62a528dd04c0bd66bf0d8e10ceca97ecd641134e9b22578f9"
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 SB 347 (2011) — Mental Health Crisis Management.

## 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/Senate/PDF/S347v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/Senate/PDF/S347v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/Senate/PDF/S347v2.pdf)
4. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/Senate/PDF/S347v3.pdf)
5. **SL2012-128** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/Senate/PDF/S347v4.pdf)

## Votes

- Motion 9\To Concur — **46–0** (pass) · upper
- Second Reading — **113–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Bingham — primary (person)
- Purcell — primary (person)
- Davis — cosponsor (person)
- Mansfield — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2012-06-29** Ch. SL 2012-128 `became-law`
- **2012-06-29** Signed By Gov. 6/29/2012 `executive-signature`
- **2012-06-26** Pres. To Gov. 6/26/2012 `executive-receipt`
- **2012-06-26** Ratified
- **2012-06-25** Concurred In H/com Sub `amendment-passage`
- **2012-06-21** Placed On Cal For 6/25/2012
- **2012-06-21** Rec To Concur H Com Sub
- **2012-06-20** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2012-06-19** Placed On Cal For 6/20/2012
- **2012-06-19** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2012-06-19** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-04-05** Ref To Com On Health and Human Services `referral-committee`
- **2011-04-05** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2011-03-31** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2011-03-30** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-03-16** Ref To Com On Health Care `referral-committee`
- **2011-03-16** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2011-03-15** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a7462204-69e4-4e9c-bf88-697935d9ad9a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).