---
type: "Bill"
title: "Right to Try Adult Stem Cell Treatments."
description: "Right to Try Adult Stem Cell Treatments."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 934"
citation: "North Carolina HB 934 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["BOARDS", "DEATH & DYING", "DISEASES & HEALTH DISORDERS", "EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES", "HEALTH SERVICES", "LICENSING & CERTIFICATION", "MEDICAL BOARD", "OCCUPATIONS", "PHYSICIANS", "PRESENTED", "PUBLIC", "PUBLIC HEALTH", "RATIFIED", "RESEARCH", "LIABILITY", "CHAPTERED"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Blackwell", "Lambeth", "Murphy"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 34
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-04-16"
last_action: "2019-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8d0a0380-4cc4-44b0-b45c-36022b5fd7a2"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2019&BillID=H934&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "9f9f24065ea5b0bf0e3d641f03f8a20f53c164549de5d06b57d911db5d2e4998"
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 934 (2019) — Right to Try Adult Stem Cell Treatments.

## 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/2019/Bills/House/PDF/H934v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2019/Bills/House/PDF/H934v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2019/Bills/House/PDF/H934v2.pdf)
4. **Edition 3** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2019/Bills/House/PDF/H934v3.pdf)
5. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2019/Bills/House/PDF/H934v4.pdf)
6. **SL 2019-70** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2019/Bills/House/PDF/H934v5.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **42–0** (pass) · upper
- M11 Concur — **106–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Blackwell — primary (person)
- Lambeth — primary (person)
- Murphy — primary (person)
- Adcock — cosponsor (person)
- Black — cosponsor (person)
- Brockman — cosponsor (person)
- Butler — cosponsor (person)
- Carney — cosponsor (person)
- Cunningham — cosponsor (person)
- Dahle — cosponsor (person)
- Fisher — cosponsor (person)
- Gill — cosponsor (person)
- Harrison — cosponsor (person)
- Hawkins — cosponsor (person)
- Insko — cosponsor (person)
- Lucas — cosponsor (person)
- R. Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Reives — cosponsor (person)
- Richardson — cosponsor (person)
- Willingham — cosponsor (person)
- Zachary — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-07-01** Ch. SL 2019-70 `became-law`
- **2019-07-01** Signed by Gov. 7/1/2019 `executive-signature`
- **2019-06-26** Pres. To Gov. 6/26/2019 `executive-receipt`
- **2019-06-25** Ratified
- **2019-06-24** Ordered Enrolled
- **2019-06-24** Concurred In S Com Sub `amendment-passage`
- **2019-06-20** Placed On Cal For 06/24/2019
- **2019-06-20** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2019-06-20** Special Message Received For Concurrence in S Com Sub
- **2019-06-20** Special Message Sent To House
- **2019-06-20** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-06-20** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2019-06-19** Placed On Cal For 06/20/2019
- **2019-06-19** Withdrawn From Cal
- **2019-06-18** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-06-13** Re-ref Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2019-06-13** Com Substitute Adopted
- **2019-06-13** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-05-29** Re-ref to Health Care. If fav, re-ref to Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-29** Withdrawn From Com
- **2019-05-06** Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-06** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2019-05-06** Regular Message Received From House
- **2019-05-03** Regular Message Sent To Senate
- **2019-05-02** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-05-02** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2019-05-01** Placed On Cal For 05/02/2019
- **2019-05-01** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2019-05-01** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-30** Re-ref Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-30** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-22** Ref to the Com on Health, if favorable, Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-22** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2019-04-16** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8d0a0380-4cc4-44b0-b45c-36022b5fd7a2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).