republic-os/legislation/us/states/nc/2011/hb-542.md

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Bill	Tort Reform for Citizens and Businesses.	Tort Reform for Citizens and Businesses.	us/states/nc	North Carolina General Assembly	2011	HB 542	North Carolina HB 542 (2011)	bill	COMMERCE COURTS CRIMES LANDOWNERS MALPRACTICE MANUFACTURING PRESENTED PROPERTY PUBLIC RATIFIED SESSION LAWS TORTS TRESPASSING REP. CRAWFORD REP. MCCOMAS LIABILITY CHAPTERED REP. BRISSON CIVIL ACTIONS REP. RHYNE	enacted	Brisson McComas Rhyne	14	42	2	2011-03-30	2011-06-24	openstates	ocd-bill/c4aae9eb-4f00-4a0d-aad4-5142c281e857	http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2011&BillID=H542&votesToView=all	129cf68a01eb900ab0e2731c64c09330026981811559296b65dcda3bc119346e	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-nc

North Carolina HB 542 (2011) — Tort Reform for Citizens and Businesses.

Version chain

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

1. Filed (filed) — source
2. A1: ATG-154-V-4 (committee substitute) — source
3. A1: ATG-188-V-1 (committee substitute) — source
4. A2: ATG-89-V-4 (committee substitute) — source
5. A3: ATG-133-V-3 (committee substitute) — source
6. A5: ATG-140-V-1 (committee substitute) — source
7. A7: ATG-144-V-1 (committee substitute) — source
8. Edition 1 (committee substitute) — source
9. Edition 2 (committee substitute) — source
10. Edition 3 (committee substitute) — source
11. Edition 4 (committee substitute) — source
12. Edition 5 (committee substitute) — source
13. Ratified (committee substitute) — source
14. SL2011-283 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Third Reading — 42–8 (pass) · upper
• M11 Concur — 80–32 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Brisson — primary (person)
• McComas — primary (person)
• Rhyne — primary (person)
• Bradley — cosponsor (person)
• Cook — cosponsor (person)
• Crawford — cosponsor (person)
• Folwell — cosponsor (person)
• Moffitt — cosponsor (person)
• Murry — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2011-06-24 Ch. SL 2011-283 became-law
• 2011-06-24 Signed By Gov. 6/24/2011 executive-signature
• 2011-06-20 Pres. To Gov. 6/20/2011 executive-receipt
• 2011-06-17 Ratified
• 2011-06-16 Concurred In S/Com Sub amendment-passage
• 2011-06-15 Placed On Cal For 6/16/2011
• 2011-06-15 Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
• 2011-06-15 Rec To Concur S Com Sub
• 2011-06-15 Engrossed
• 2011-06-15 Passed 3rd Reading passage, reading-3
• 2011-06-14 Passed 2nd Reading reading-2
• 2011-06-14 Amend Adopted 1 amendment-passage
• 2011-06-13 Com Substitute Adopted
• 2011-06-13 Reptd Fav Com Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-06-06 Ref To Com On Judiciary I referral-committee
• 2011-06-06 Passed 1st Reading reading-1
• 2011-06-06 Rec From House
• 2011-06-01 Ordered Engrossed
• 2011-06-01 Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading passage, reading-2, reading-3
• 2011-06-01 Amend Failed 10 amendment-failure
• 2011-06-01 Amendment Withdrawn 9 amendment-withdrawal
• 2011-06-01 Amend 9 Offered
• 2011-06-01 Amend Adopted 8 amendment-passage
• 2011-06-01 Amend Adopted 7 amendment-passage
• 2011-06-01 Amend Failed 6 amendment-failure
• 2011-06-01 Amend Adopted 5 amendment-passage
• 2011-06-01 Amend Adopted 4 amendment-passage
• 2011-06-01 Amend Adopted 3 amendment-passage
• 2011-06-01 Amend Adopted 2 amendment-passage
• 2011-06-01 Amend Adopted 1 amendment-passage
• 2011-05-26 Placed On Cal For 6/1/2011
• 2011-05-26 Withdrawn From Cal
• 2011-05-18 Postponed To 5/31/2011
• 2011-05-11 Postponed To 5/18/2011
• 2011-05-10 Placed On Cal For 5/11/2011
• 2011-05-10 Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
• 2011-05-10 Reptd Fav Com Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-03-31 Re-ref Com On House Select Committee on Tort Reform referral-committee
• 2011-03-31 Withdrawn From Com
• 2011-03-31 Ref To Com On Judiciary referral-committee
• 2011-03-31 Passed 1st Reading reading-1
• 2011-03-30 Filed introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c4aae9eb-4f00-4a0d-aad4-5142c281e857. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).