---
type: "Bill"
title: "State Health Plan/Taxpayer Recovery Act."
description: "State Health Plan/Taxpayer Recovery Act."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2009"
identifier: "HB 439"
citation: "North Carolina HB 439 (2009)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["AMBULANCES", "COUNTIES", "EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES", "EMERGENCY SERVICES", "FISCAL NOTES", "INSURANCE", "INSURANCE", "HEALTH", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "MUNICIPALITIES", "PRESENTED", "PUBLIC", "RATIFIED", "SALARIES & BENEFITS", "STATE EMPLOYEES", "TEACHERS", "STATE HEALTH PLAN", "REP. HALL", "CHAPTERED", "REP. ENGLAND", "REP. FOLWELL", "REP. HURLEY"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["England", "Folwell", "Hurley"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 17
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2009-03-05"
last_action: "2009-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/71c720e6-d214-4eeb-91c3-bcd1a780e8fb"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2009&BillID=H439&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "c58314231b5847089323c6646d2e7c306b070c39c3f4ede1a1ed1e850ac7e07b"
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 439 (2009) — State Health Plan/Taxpayer Recovery Act.

## 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/2009/Bills/House/PDF/H439v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/House/PDF/H439v1.pdf)
3. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/House/PDF/H439v2.pdf)
4. **SL2009-83** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/House/PDF/H439v3.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper
- Second Reading — **117–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- England — primary (person)
- Folwell — primary (person)
- Hurley — primary (person)
- Blackwood — cosponsor (person)
- Bryant — cosponsor (person)
- Cleveland — cosponsor (person)
- Current — cosponsor (person)
- Dockham — cosponsor (person)
- Glazier — cosponsor (person)
- Gulley — cosponsor (person)
- Hall — cosponsor (person)
- Harrison — cosponsor (person)
- Langdon — cosponsor (person)
- Luebke — cosponsor (person)
- Samuelson — cosponsor (person)
- Starnes — cosponsor (person)
- Weiss — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2009-06-11** Ch. SL 2009-83 `became-law`
- **2009-06-11** Signed By Gov. 6/11/2009 `executive-signature`
- **2009-06-03** Pres. To Gov. 6/3/2009 `executive-receipt`
- **2009-06-02** Ratified
- **2009-06-01** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2009-05-28** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2009-05-20** Ref To Com On Commerce `referral-committee`
- **2009-05-12** Rec From House
- **2009-05-11** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2009-05-07** Placed On Cal For 5/11/2009
- **2009-05-07** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2009-05-07** Withdrawn From Com
- **2009-04-28** Re-ref Com On Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2009-04-28** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2009-03-09** Ref to the Com on Insurance, if favorable, Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2009-03-09** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2009-03-05** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/71c720e6-d214-4eeb-91c3-bcd1a780e8fb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).