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type: "Bill"
title: "Medical Liability Reforms."
description: "Medical Liability Reforms."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2011"
identifier: "SB 33"
citation: "North Carolina SB 33 (2011)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CIVIL PROCEDURE", "COURTS", "EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES", "EMERGENCY SERVICES", "EVIDENCE", "HEALTH SERVICES", "MALPRACTICE", "PRESENTED", "PUBLIC", "RATIFIED", "TITLE CHANGE", "VETOED", "WITNESSES", "LIABILITY", "CHAPTERED", "VETO OVERRIDDEN", "SEN. APODACA", "SEN. BROWN", "CIVIL ACTIONS", "SEN. RUCHO"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Apodaca", "Brown"]
version_count: 12
action_count: 49
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2011-02-02"
last_action: "2011-07-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/56d8aeb8-2716-468c-b551-660a36d9a529"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2011&BillID=S33&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "cbacf36f7c82c5cb3cc063658621aa86e9cebd0aafb47f91cd2f6392ecb6e8b3"
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 SB 33 (2011) — Medical Liability Reforms.
## 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/2011/Bills/Senate/PDF/S33v0.pdf)
2. **A1: ATG-87-V-1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://webservices.ncleg.net/ViewBillDocument/2011/325/0/S33-ATG-87-V-1)
3. **A2: ATG-86-V-1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://webservices.ncleg.net/ViewBillDocument/2011/327/0/S33-ATG-86-V-1)
4. **A3: ATG-21-V-2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://webservices.ncleg.net/ViewBillDocument/2011/87/0/S33-ATG-21-V-2)
5. **A5: ATG-83-V-1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://webservices.ncleg.net/ViewBillDocument/2011/330/0/S33-ATG-83-V-1)
6. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/Senate/PDF/S33v1.pdf)
7. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/Senate/PDF/S33v2.pdf)
8. **Edition 3** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/Senate/PDF/S33v3.pdf)
9. **Edition 4** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/Senate/PDF/S33v4.pdf)
10. **Edition 5** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/Senate/PDF/S33v5.pdf)
11. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/Senate/PDF/S33v6.pdf)
12. **SL2011-400** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/Senate/PDF/S33v7.pdf)
## Votes
- Veto Override\M4 Previous\Question — **5953** (pass) · lower
- Veto Override — **7442** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Apodaca — primary (person)
- Brown — primary (person)
- Bingham — cosponsor (person)
- Blake — cosponsor (person)
- Brock — cosponsor (person)
- Clary — cosponsor (person)
- Davis — cosponsor (person)
- Goolsby — cosponsor (person)
- Gunn — cosponsor (person)
- Harrington — cosponsor (person)
- Hise — cosponsor (person)
- Hunt — cosponsor (person)
- Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- Jones — cosponsor (person)
- Mansfield — cosponsor (person)
- Meredith — cosponsor (person)
- Pate — cosponsor (person)
- Preston — cosponsor (person)
- Purcell — cosponsor (person)
- Rabon — cosponsor (person)
- Rouzer — cosponsor (person)
- Rucho — cosponsor (person)
- Soucek — cosponsor (person)
- Stevens — cosponsor (person)
- Tillman — cosponsor (person)
- Tucker — cosponsor (person)
- Walters — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2011-07-25** Ch. SL 2011-400 `became-law`
- **2011-07-25** Veto Overridden `veto-override-passage`
- **2011-07-14** Placed On Cal For 7/25/2011
- **2011-07-14** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2011-07-14** Rec From Senate
- **2011-07-13** Veto Overridden `veto-override-passage`
- **2011-07-13** Placed On Cal For 7/13/2011
- **2011-06-24** Vetoed 6/24/2011 `executive-veto`
- **2011-06-14** Pres. To Gov. 6/14/2011 `executive-receipt`
- **2011-06-13** Ratified
- **2011-06-09** Conf Report Adopted
- **2011-06-09** Placed On Cal For 6/9/2011
- **2011-06-09** Conf Com Reported
- **2011-06-09** Conf Report Adopted
- **2011-06-09** Placed On Cal For 6/9/2011
- **2011-06-09** Conf Com Reported
- **2011-04-26** Conf Com Appointed
- **2011-04-26** Conf Com Appointed
- **2011-04-26** Failed Concur In Com Sub
- **2011-04-21** Placed On Cal For 4/26/2011
- **2011-04-21** Rec To Concur H Com Sub
- **2011-04-20** Ordered Engrossed
- **2011-04-20** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2011-04-20** Amendment Withdrawn 7 `amendment-withdrawal`
- **2011-04-20** Amend 7 Offered
- **2011-04-20** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2011-04-20** Amend Failed 6 `amendment-failure`
- **2011-04-20** Amend Adopted 5 `amendment-passage`
- **2011-04-20** Amend Failed 4 `amendment-failure`
- **2011-04-20** Amend Adopted 2 `amendment-passage`
- **2011-04-20** Amend Adopted 3 `amendment-passage`
- **2011-04-20** Amend Adopted 1 `amendment-passage`
- **2011-04-19** Placed On Cal For 4/20/2011
- **2011-04-19** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2011-04-19** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-03-22** Re-ref Com On House Select Committee on Tort Reform `referral-committee`
- **2011-03-22** Withdrawn From Com
- **2011-03-07** Ref To Com On Judiciary Subcommittee A `referral-committee`
- **2011-03-07** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2011-03-02** Engrossed
- **2011-03-02** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2011-03-02** Amend Adopted 3 `amendment-passage`
- **2011-03-02** Amend Failed 2 `amendment-failure`
- **2011-03-02** Amend Failed 1 `amendment-failure`
- **2011-03-01** Com Substitute Adopted
- **2011-03-01** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-02-03** Ref To Com On Judiciary I `referral-committee`
- **2011-02-03** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2011-02-02** Filed `introduction`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/56d8aeb8-2716-468c-b551-660a36d9a529`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).