---
type: "Bill"
title: "Designate Primary Stroke Centers."
description: "Designate Primary Stroke Centers."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2013"
identifier: "SB 456"
citation: "North Carolina SB 456 (2013)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["DHHS", "EMERGENCY SERVICES", "HEALTH SERVICES", "HOSPITALS", "PRESENTED", "PUBLIC", "RATIFIED", "CHAPTERED"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bingham", "Pate"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 24
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2013-03-26"
last_action: "2013-05-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4aa5013d-6181-4017-9e34-69a3625aa4d9"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2013&BillID=S456&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "2e5313937b92f163316ce6b047aed94acf040f0e9733692536d2b398904f512d"
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 456 (2013) — Designate Primary Stroke Centers.

## 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/2013/Bills/Senate/PDF/S456v0.pdf)
2. **A1: ATK-12-V-4** (committee substitute) — [source](https://webservices.ncleg.net/ViewBillDocument/2013/4220/0/S456-ATK-12-V-4)
3. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2013/Bills/Senate/PDF/S456v1.pdf)
4. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2013/Bills/Senate/PDF/S456v2.pdf)
5. **Edition 3** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2013/Bills/Senate/PDF/S456v3.pdf)
6. **Edition 4** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2013/Bills/Senate/PDF/S456v4.pdf)
7. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2013/Bills/Senate/PDF/S456v5.pdf)
8. **SL2013-44** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2013/Bills/Senate/PDF/S456v6.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **44–0** (pass) · upper
- Second Reading — **116–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Bingham — primary (person)
- Pate — primary (person)
- Brock — cosponsor (person)
- D. Davis — cosponsor (person)
- Goolsby — cosponsor (person)
- Hise — cosponsor (person)
- Wade — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2013-05-08** Ch. SL 2013-44 `became-law`
- **2013-05-08** Signed by Gov. 5/8/2013 `executive-signature`
- **2013-05-02** Pres. To Gov. 05/03/2013 `executive-receipt`
- **2013-05-02** Ratified
- **2013-05-01** Ordered Enrolled
- **2013-05-01** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2013-05-01** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2013-04-30** Placed On Cal For 05/01/2013
- **2013-04-30** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2013-04-30** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2013-04-23** Ref To Com On Health and Human Services `referral-committee`
- **2013-04-23** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2013-04-22** Rec From Senate
- **2013-04-18** Engrossed
- **2013-04-18** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2013-04-18** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2013-04-18** Amend Adopted A1 `amendment-passage`
- **2013-04-15** Placed On Cal For 04/18/2013
- **2013-04-15** Withdrawn From Cal
- **2013-04-11** Com Substitute Adopted
- **2013-04-11** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2013-03-27** Ref To Com On Health Care `referral-committee`
- **2013-03-27** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2013-03-26** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4aa5013d-6181-4017-9e34-69a3625aa4d9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).