---
type: "Bill"
title: "Support Law Enforcement Mental Health."
description: "Support Law Enforcement Mental Health."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 436"
citation: "North Carolina HB 436 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CHAPTERED", "CJE & TRAINING STANDARDS COMN.", "COMMISSIONS", "COUNSELING", "EMERGENCY SERVICES", "EMPLOYMENT", "HEALTH SERVICES", "LAW ENFORCEMENT", "LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS", "LICENSING & CERTIFICATION", "LMES-MCOS", "MENTAL HEALTH", "OCCUPATIONS", "PERSONNEL", "PRESENTED", "PUBLIC", "RATIFIED", "SHERIFF'S TRAINING COMN.", "SHERIFFS", "SOCIAL SERVICES", "TESTING"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["K. Baker", "Szoka"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 38
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-03-29"
last_action: "2021-09-02"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/484479d5-6dba-4bc8-86a9-a359ab18da0b"
source_url: "https://www.ncleg.gov/BillLookUp/2021/H436"
source_hash: "69f5aee8811130878b43c1b06f87a3bf86d610f6b33da02e7cae07ea78c0fecf"
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 436 (2021) — Support Law Enforcement Mental Health.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Filed** (filed) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2021/Bills/House/PDF/H436v0.pdf)
2. **A1: Scanned Document** (committee substitute) — [source](https://webservices.ncleg.gov/ViewBillDocument/2021/52885/0/H436-A-NBC-9144)
3. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2021/Bills/House/PDF/H436v1.pdf)
4. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2021/Bills/House/PDF/H436v2.pdf)
5. **Edition 3** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2021/Bills/House/PDF/H436v3.pdf)
6. **Edition 4** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2021/Bills/House/PDF/H436v4.pdf)
7. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2021/Bills/House/PDF/H436v5.pdf)
8. **SL 2021-136** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2021/Bills/House/PDF/H436v6.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **44–0** (pass) · upper
- M11 Concur — **103–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- K. Baker — primary (person)
- Szoka — primary (person)
- A. Baker — cosponsor (person)
- Adcock — cosponsor (person)
- Alston — cosponsor (person)
- Autry — cosponsor (person)
- Belk — cosponsor (person)
- Brisson — cosponsor (person)
- Brockman — cosponsor (person)
- Brown — cosponsor (person)
- Carney — cosponsor (person)
- Cunningham — cosponsor (person)
- Faircloth — cosponsor (person)
- Farkas — cosponsor (person)
- Fisher — cosponsor (person)
- Gailliard — cosponsor (person)
- Gill — cosponsor (person)
- Graham — cosponsor (person)
- Hardister — cosponsor (person)
- Harris — cosponsor (person)
- Harrison — cosponsor (person)
- Hawkins — cosponsor (person)
- Hunt — cosponsor (person)
- Hunter — cosponsor (person)
- Hurtado — cosponsor (person)
- Insko — cosponsor (person)
- John — cosponsor (person)
- K. Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Lofton — cosponsor (person)
- Logan — cosponsor (person)
- Lucas — cosponsor (person)
- Meyer — cosponsor (person)
- Morey — cosponsor (person)
- Pittman — cosponsor (person)
- Quick — cosponsor (person)
- R. Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Reives — cosponsor (person)
- Shepard — cosponsor (person)
- Terry — cosponsor (person)
- Turner — cosponsor (person)
- Wray — cosponsor (person)
- von Haefen — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-09-02** Ch. SL 2021-136 `became-law`
- **2021-09-02** Signed by Gov. 9/2/2021 `executive-signature`
- **2021-08-31** Pres. To Gov. 8/31/2021 `executive-receipt`
- **2021-08-31** Ratified
- **2021-08-31** Ordered Enrolled
- **2021-08-31** Concurred In S Com Sub `amendment-passage`
- **2021-08-30** Placed On Cal For 08/31/2021
- **2021-08-30** Cal Pursuant 36(b)
- **2021-08-26** Regular Message Received For Concurrence in S Com Sub
- **2021-08-26** Regular Message Sent To House
- **2021-08-25** Engrossed
- **2021-08-25** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-08-25** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2021-08-25** Amend Adopted A1 `amendment-passage`
- **2021-08-24** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-08-18** Re-ref Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2021-08-18** Com Substitute Adopted
- **2021-08-18** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-08-10** Re-ref Com On Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2021-08-10** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-08-05** Re-ref to Health Care. If fav, re-ref to Judiciary. If fav, re-ref to Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2021-08-05** Withdrawn From Com
- **2021-05-06** Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2021-05-06** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2021-05-06** Regular Message Received From House
- **2021-05-06** Regular Message Sent To Senate
- **2021-05-05** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-05-05** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2021-05-04** Placed On Cal For 05/05/2021
- **2021-05-04** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2021-05-04** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-05-04** Re-ref Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2021-05-04** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-20** Re-ref Com On Health `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-20** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-30** Ref to the Com on Judiciary 4, if favorable, Health, if favorable, Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-30** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2021-03-29** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/484479d5-6dba-4bc8-86a9-a359ab18da0b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).