republic-os/legislation/us/states/nc/2021/hb-351.md

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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
Bill	Clifford's Law.	Clifford's Law.	us/states/nc	North Carolina General Assembly	2021	HB 351	North Carolina HB 351 (2021)	bill	CHAPTERED CONTINUING CARE FACILITIES DHHS DISASTERS & EMERGENCIES DISEASES & HEALTH DISORDERS FAMILY ISSUES FINES & PENALTIES HEALTH SERVICES HOSPITALS NAMED LAWS PATIENT RIGHTS PRESENTED PUBLIC PUBLIC HEALTH PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCY RATIFIED RELIGION & RELIGIOUS INSTITUTIONS	enacted	Dixon Lambeth White	12	40	2	2021-03-22	2021-09-10	openstates	ocd-bill/975fc71b-9ed5-45b1-a4f0-46457e9665e6	https://www.ncleg.gov/BillLookUp/2021/H351	c149ebcaeb376d0898b3ec83972bd1d42d244e4feb62414ac17bc8134add2805	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-nc

North Carolina HB 351 (2021) — Clifford's Law.

Version chain

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

1. Filed (filed) — source
2. A1: ASH-15-V-1 (committee substitute) — source
3. A1: ATU-26-V-2 (committee substitute) — source
4. Edition 1 (committee substitute) — source
5. Edition 2 (committee substitute) — source
6. Edition 3 (committee substitute) — source
7. Edition 4 (committee substitute) — source
8. Edition 5 (committee substitute) — source
9. Edition 6 (committee substitute) — source
10. Edition 7 (committee substitute) — source
11. Ratified (committee substitute) — source
12. SL 2021-145 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Second Reading — 42–0 (pass) · upper
• M11 Concur — 103–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Dixon — primary (person)
• Lambeth — primary (person)
• White — primary (person)
• A. Baker — cosponsor (person)
• Blackwell — cosponsor (person)
• Boles — cosponsor (person)
• Bradford — cosponsor (person)
• Brisson — cosponsor (person)
• C. Smith — cosponsor (person)
• Carter — cosponsor (person)
• Clampitt — cosponsor (person)
• Cleveland — cosponsor (person)
• Faircloth — cosponsor (person)
• Gillespie — cosponsor (person)
• Goodwin — cosponsor (person)
• Greene — cosponsor (person)
• Hanig — cosponsor (person)
• Hastings — cosponsor (person)
• Humphrey — cosponsor (person)
• Hurley — cosponsor (person)
• Johnson — cosponsor (person)
• K. Hall — cosponsor (person)
• Kidwell — cosponsor (person)
• McNeely — cosponsor (person)
• McNeill — cosponsor (person)
• Miller — cosponsor (person)
• Mills — cosponsor (person)
• Moffitt — cosponsor (person)
• Moss — cosponsor (person)
• Pittman — cosponsor (person)
• Pless — cosponsor (person)
• Potts — cosponsor (person)
• Riddell — cosponsor (person)
• Rogers — cosponsor (person)
• Sasser — cosponsor (person)
• Shepard — cosponsor (person)
• Stevens — cosponsor (person)
• Strickland — cosponsor (person)
• Szoka — cosponsor (person)
• Tyson — cosponsor (person)
• Wheatley — cosponsor (person)
• Willis — cosponsor (person)
• Zachary — cosponsor (person)
• Zenger — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-09-10 Ch. SL 2021-145 became-law
• 2021-09-10 Signed by Gov. 9/10/2021 executive-signature
• 2021-09-01 Pres. To Gov. 9/1/2021 executive-receipt
• 2021-09-01 Ratified
• 2021-08-31 Ordered Enrolled
• 2021-08-31 Concurred In S Com Sub amendment-passage
• 2021-08-26 Placed On Cal For 08/31/2021
• 2021-08-26 Cal Pursuant 36(b)
• 2021-08-25 Regular Message Received For Concurrence in S Com Sub
• 2021-08-25 Regular Message Sent To House
• 2021-08-24 Engrossed
• 2021-08-24 Passed 3rd Reading passage, reading-3
• 2021-08-24 Passed 2nd Reading reading-2
• 2021-08-24 Amend Adopted A1 amendment-passage
• 2021-08-23 Reptd Fav committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-08-10 Re-ref Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate referral-committee
• 2021-08-10 Com Substitute Adopted
• 2021-08-10 Reptd Fav Com Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-07-22 Re-ref Com On Judiciary referral-committee
• 2021-07-22 Com Substitute Adopted
• 2021-07-22 Reptd Fav Com Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-06-10 Re-ref to Health Care. If fav, re-ref to Judiciary. If fav, re-ref to Rules and Operations of the Senate referral-committee
• 2021-06-10 Withdrawn From Com
• 2021-04-05 Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate referral-committee
• 2021-04-05 Passed 1st Reading reading-1
• 2021-04-05 Regular Message Received From House
• 2021-04-05 Regular Message Sent To Senate
• 2021-04-01 Ordered Engrossed
• 2021-04-01 Passed 3rd Reading passage, reading-3
• 2021-04-01 Amend Adopted A1 amendment-passage
• 2021-03-31 Passed 2nd Reading reading-2
• 2021-03-31 Added to Calendar
• 2021-03-31 Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
• 2021-03-31 Reptd Fav Com Sub 2 committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-03-30 Re-ref Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House referral-committee
• 2021-03-30 Serial Referral To State Government Stricken
• 2021-03-30 Reptd Fav Com Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-03-23 Ref to the Com on Health, if favorable, State Government, if favorable, Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House referral-committee
• 2021-03-23 Passed 1st Reading reading-1
• 2021-03-22 Filed introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/975fc71b-9ed5-45b1-a4f0-46457e9665e6. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).