republic-os/legislation/us/states/nc/2011/hb-215.md

type, title, description, jurisdiction, legislature, session, identifier, citation, classification, subjects, status, primary_sponsors, version_count, action_count, vote_count, first_action, last_action, source, source_identifier, source_url, source_hash, vintage, source_snapshot, retrieved_at, confidence, tags

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Bill	Unborn Victims of Violence Act/Ethen's Law.	Unborn Victims of Violence Act/Ethen's Law.	us/states/nc	North Carolina General Assembly	2011	HB 215	North Carolina HB 215 (2011)	bill	COURTS CRIMES CRIMINAL PROCEDURE DEATH & DYING PREGNANCY PRESENTED PUBLIC PUBLIC HEALTH RATIFIED SENTENCING WOMEN REP. HILTON REP. STARNES HOMICIDE CHAPTERED REP. STEEN REP. FOLWELL NAMED LAWS	enacted	Folwell Hilton Starnes	8	34	2	2011-03-02	2011-04-29	openstates	ocd-bill/af3b4c8a-3b00-4d30-a20c-90e44fcc6b85	http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2011&BillID=H215&votesToView=all	2289a5483708af1076a75054cecb170467b6abbf1a1b727969362a2cb1968ed9	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-nc

North Carolina HB 215 (2011) — Unborn Victims of Violence Act/Ethen's Law.

Version chain

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

1. Filed (filed) — source
2. A1: ARV-6-V-1 (committee substitute) — source
3. Edition 1 (committee substitute) — source
4. Edition 2 (committee substitute) — source
5. Edition 3 (committee substitute) — source
6. Edition 4 (committee substitute) — source
7. Ratified (committee substitute) — source
8. SL2011-60 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Second Reading — 45–4 (pass) · upper
• M11 Concur — 78–39 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Folwell — primary (person)
• Hilton — primary (person)
• Starnes — primary (person)
• Avila — cosponsor (person)
• Blackwell — cosponsor (person)
• Blust — cosponsor (person)
• Bradley — cosponsor (person)
• Burr — cosponsor (person)
• Cleveland — cosponsor (person)
• Collins — cosponsor (person)
• Cook — cosponsor (person)
• Current — cosponsor (person)
• Dollar — cosponsor (person)
• Frye — cosponsor (person)
• Gillespie — cosponsor (person)
• H. Warren — cosponsor (person)
• Hastings — cosponsor (person)
• Hollo — cosponsor (person)
• Holloway — cosponsor (person)
• Horn — cosponsor (person)
• Hurley — cosponsor (person)
• Johnson — cosponsor (person)
• Jones — cosponsor (person)
• Jordan — cosponsor (person)
• Killian — cosponsor (person)
• L. Brown — cosponsor (person)
• LaRoque — cosponsor (person)
• McElraft — cosponsor (person)
• Mills — cosponsor (person)
• Randleman — cosponsor (person)
• Samuelson — cosponsor (person)
• Sanderson — cosponsor (person)
• Setzer — cosponsor (person)
• Shepard — cosponsor (person)
• Stam — cosponsor (person)
• Steen — cosponsor (person)
• Stevens — cosponsor (person)
• Stone — cosponsor (person)
• T. Moore — cosponsor (person)
• Torbett — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2011-04-29 Ch. SL 2011-60 became-law
• 2011-04-29 Signed By Gov. 4/29/2011 executive-signature
• 2011-04-21 Pres. To Gov. 4/21/2011 executive-receipt
• 2011-04-20 Ratified
• 2011-04-19 Concurred In S/Com Sub amendment-passage
• 2011-04-18 Placed On Cal For 4/19/2011
• 2011-04-18 Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
• 2011-04-18 Rec To Concur S Com Sub
• 2011-04-14 Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading passage, reading-2, reading-3
• 2011-04-14 Amend Failed 2 amendment-failure
• 2011-04-14 Amend Failed 1 amendment-failure
• 2011-04-13 Placed On Cal For 4/14/2011
• 2011-04-13 Withdrawn From Cal
• 2011-04-12 Placed On Cal For 4/13/2011
• 2011-04-12 Withdrawn From Cal
• 2011-04-11 Com Substitute Adopted
• 2011-04-11 Reptd Fav Com Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-03-28 Ref To Com On Judiciary II referral-committee
• 2011-03-28 Passed 1st Reading reading-1
• 2011-03-25 Rec From House
• 2011-03-24 Ordered Engrossed
• 2011-03-24 Passed 3rd Reading passage, reading-3
• 2011-03-24 Amend Failed 4 amendment-failure
• 2011-03-24 Passed 2nd Reading reading-2
• 2011-03-24 Amend Failed 3 amendment-failure
• 2011-03-24 Amend Failed 2 amendment-failure
• 2011-03-24 Amend Adopted 1 amendment-passage
• 2011-03-23 Placed On Cal For 3/24/2011
• 2011-03-23 Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
• 2011-03-23 Serial Referral to Appropriations Stricken
• 2011-03-23 Reptd Fav Com Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-03-03 Ref to the Com on Judiciary Subcommittee B, if favorable, Appropriations referral-committee
• 2011-03-03 Passed 1st Reading reading-1
• 2011-03-02 Filed introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/af3b4c8a-3b00-4d30-a20c-90e44fcc6b85. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).