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type: "Bill"
title: "Right to Try Act for Terminally Ill Patients."
description: "Right to Try Act for Terminally Ill Patients."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2015"
identifier: "HB 652"
citation: "North Carolina HB 652 (2015)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES", "DEATH & DYING", "DISEASES & HEALTH DISORDERS", "HEALTH SERVICES", "PHARMACEUTICALS", "PRESENTED", "PUBLIC", "PUBLIC HEALTH", "RATIFIED", "RESEARCH", "LIABILITY", "CHAPTERED", "MEDICAL EQUIPMENT"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Blackwell", "Hager", "Lambeth"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 26
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2015-04-13"
last_action: "2015-07-02"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3579549c-73c3-4aa6-ba1c-82ba5a3b0e51"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2015&BillID=H652&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "7cabbba874a6fea10185fa574109fd07d8f799f29b047b89cdddd1e19af707d8"
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 652 (2015) — Right to Try Act for Terminally Ill Patients.
## 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/2015/Bills/House/PDF/H652v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2015/Bills/House/PDF/H652v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2015/Bills/House/PDF/H652v2.pdf)
4. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2015/Bills/House/PDF/H652v3.pdf)
5. **SL2015-137** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2015/Bills/House/PDF/H652v4.pdf)
## Votes
- Second Reading — **470** (pass) · upper
- Second Reading — **1180** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Blackwell — primary (person)
- Hager — primary (person)
- Lambeth — primary (person)
- Alexander — cosponsor (person)
- Avila — cosponsor (person)
- Carney — cosponsor (person)
- Cunningham — cosponsor (person)
- Earle — cosponsor (person)
- Faircloth — cosponsor (person)
- Fisher — cosponsor (person)
- Floyd — cosponsor (person)
- G. Graham — cosponsor (person)
- Harrison — cosponsor (person)
- Hunter — cosponsor (person)
- Hurley — cosponsor (person)
- Jones — cosponsor (person)
- Jordan — cosponsor (person)
- Lucas — cosponsor (person)
- Pittman — cosponsor (person)
- R. Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- R. Moore — cosponsor (person)
- Reives — cosponsor (person)
- S. Martin — cosponsor (person)
- Warren — cosponsor (person)
- Whitmire — cosponsor (person)
- Wray — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2015-07-02** Ch. SL 2015-137 `became-law`
- **2015-07-02** Signed by Gov. 7/2/2015 `executive-signature`
- **2015-06-25** Pres. To Gov. 6/25/2015 `executive-receipt`
- **2015-06-24** Ratified
- **2015-06-23** Ordered Enrolled
- **2015-06-23** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2015-06-23** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2015-06-15** Placed On Cal For 06/23/2015
- **2015-06-15** Withdrawn From Cal
- **2015-06-11** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2015-06-01** Re-ref Com On Health Care `referral-committee`
- **2015-06-01** Withdrawn From Com
- **2015-04-22** Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2015-04-22** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2015-04-22** Regular Message Received From House
- **2015-04-22** Regular Message Sent To Senate
- **2015-04-21** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2015-04-21** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2015-04-20** Placed On Cal For 04/21/2015
- **2015-04-20** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2015-04-20** Withdrawn From Com
- **2015-04-20** Re-ref Com On Judiciary IV `referral-committee`
- **2015-04-20** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2015-04-14** Ref To Com On Health `referral-committee`
- **2015-04-14** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2015-04-13** Filed `introduction`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3579549c-73c3-4aa6-ba1c-82ba5a3b0e51`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).