---
type: "Bill"
title: "Legacy Medical Care Facility/CON Exempt."
description: "Legacy Medical Care Facility/CON Exempt."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2015"
identifier: "SB 698"
citation: "North Carolina SB 698 (2015)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CERTIFICATES OF NEED", "CLINICS", "COMPUTERS", "DHHS", "EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES", "HEALTH SERVICES", "HOSPITALS", "INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY", "INTERNET", "LICENSES & PERMITS", "PRESENTED", "PUBLIC", "PUBLIC HEALTH", "RATIFIED", "REPORTS", "SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY", "STUDIES", "TELECOMMUNICATIONS", "TELESERVICES", "TITLE CHANGE", "CHAPTERED", "CHIEF INFORMATION OFFICER", "INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY DEPT."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 7
action_count: 28
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2015-03-26"
last_action: "2015-10-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7f0afd53-1bc1-451d-aa1f-8900e61d0731"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2015&BillID=S698&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "3ee5bb0e721166785b6ba3a7476c577e742e3e7dd6622cc022e292363761935b"
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 698 (2015) — Legacy Medical Care Facility/CON Exempt.

## 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/2015/Bills/Senate/PDF/S698v0.pdf)
2. **A1: AMM-102-V-2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://webservices.ncleg.net/ViewBillDocument/2015/6450/0/S698-AMM-102-V-2)
3. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2015/Bills/Senate/PDF/S698v1.pdf)
4. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2015/Bills/Senate/PDF/S698v2.pdf)
5. **Edition 3** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2015/Bills/Senate/PDF/S698v3.pdf)
6. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2015/Bills/Senate/PDF/S698v4.pdf)
7. **SL2015-288** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2015/Bills/Senate/PDF/S698v5.pdf)

## Votes

- Motion 9 To Concur — **44–0** (pass) · upper
- Second Reading — **102–8** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Brock — cosponsor (person)
- Hise — cosponsor (person)
- Tarte — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2015-10-29** Ch. SL 2015-288 `became-law`
- **2015-10-29** Signed by Gov. 10/29/2015 `executive-signature`
- **2015-09-30** Pres. To Gov. 09/30/2015 `executive-receipt`
- **2015-09-29** Ratified
- **2015-09-29** Ordered Enrolled
- **2015-09-29** Concurred In H/Com Sub `amendment-passage`
- **2015-09-28** Placed On Cal For 09/29/2015
- **2015-09-28** Special Message Received For Concurrence in H Com Sub
- **2015-09-28** Special Message Sent To Senate
- **2015-09-28** Ordered Engrossed
- **2015-09-28** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2015-09-28** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2015-09-28** Amend Adopted A1 `amendment-passage`
- **2015-09-24** Placed On Cal For 09/28/2015
- **2015-09-24** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2015-09-24** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2015-04-28** Ref To Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2015-04-28** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2015-04-27** Regular Message Received From Senate
- **2015-04-27** Regular Message Sent To House
- **2015-04-23** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2015-04-23** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2015-04-22** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2015-04-20** Re-ref Com On Information Technology `referral-committee`
- **2015-04-20** Withdrawn From Com
- **2015-03-30** Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2015-03-30** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2015-03-26** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7f0afd53-1bc1-451d-aa1f-8900e61d0731`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).