---
type: "Bill"
title: "Amend Med. Mal. Health Care Provider Defin."
description: "Amend Med. Mal. Health Care Provider Defin."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 258"
citation: "North Carolina HB 258 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["DEFINITIONS", "EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES", "EMERGENCY SERVICES", "HEALTH SERVICES", "MALPRACTICE", "PUBLIC", "RATIFIED", "CHAPTERED"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bert Jones", "Fraley", "Riddell"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 26
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-03-06"
last_action: "2017-07-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/34b5c602-4bf6-4928-97fb-3b646f1ffc4b"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2017&BillID=H258&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "9db87555bee20eca001660e0177e4f500000737de61583faa19d910422c3acac"
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 258 (2017) — Amend Med. Mal. Health Care Provider Defin.

## 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/2017/Bills/House/PDF/H258v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2017/Bills/House/PDF/H258v1.pdf)
3. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2017/Bills/House/PDF/H258v2.pdf)
4. **SL 2017-131** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2017/Bills/House/PDF/H258v3.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **48–0** (pass) · upper
- Second Reading — **118–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Bert Jones — primary (person)
- Fraley — primary (person)
- Riddell — primary (person)
- Boswell — cosponsor (person)
- Clampitt — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-07-20** Ch. SL 2017-131 `became-law`
- **2017-07-20** Signed by Gov. 7/20/2017 `executive-signature`
- **2017-06-28** Pres. To Gov. 6/28/2017 `executive-receipt`
- **2017-06-28** Ratified
- **2017-06-27** Ordered Enrolled
- **2017-06-27** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2017-06-27** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2017-06-26** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-06-20** Re-ref Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2017-06-20** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-06-08** Re-ref to Judiciary. If fav, re-ref to Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2017-06-08** Withdrawn From Com
- **2017-04-03** Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2017-04-03** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2017-04-03** Regular Message Received From House
- **2017-03-30** Regular Message Sent To Senate
- **2017-03-30** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2017-03-30** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2017-03-29** Placed On Cal For 03/30/2017
- **2017-03-29** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2017-03-29** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-14** Re-ref Com On Judiciary I `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-14** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-07** Ref to the Com on Health, if favorable, Judiciary I `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-07** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2017-03-06** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/34b5c602-4bf6-4928-97fb-3b646f1ffc4b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).