republic-os/legislation/us/states/nc/2021/hb-447.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	The Jeff Rieg Law/Patients Religious Rights.	The Jeff Rieg Law/Patients Religious Rights.	us/states/nc	North Carolina General Assembly	2021	HB 447	North Carolina HB 447 (2021)	bill	CHAPTERED DISASTERS & EMERGENCIES DISEASES & HEALTH DISORDERS HEALTH SERVICES HOSPITALS NAMED LAWS PATIENT RIGHTS PRESENTED PUBLIC PUBLIC HEALTH PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCY RATIFIED RELIGION & RELIGIOUS INSTITUTIONS	enacted	Elmore Hanig Kidwell	4	28	2	2021-03-30	2021-09-16	openstates	ocd-bill/f58afdc9-7f0c-43fd-a72e-63a293969072	https://www.ncleg.gov/BillLookUp/2021/H447	7007ab0fa5b4117afb0f02c86524f5ecba99fdd081675eca23389dd712307d29	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-nc

North Carolina HB 447 (2021) — The Jeff Rieg Law/Patients Religious Rights.

Version chain

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

1. Filed (filed) — source
2. Edition 1 (committee substitute) — source
3. Ratified (committee substitute) — source
4. SL 2021-156 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Second Reading — 46–0 (pass) · upper
• Second Reading — 98–19 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Elmore — primary (person)
• Hanig — primary (person)
• Kidwell — primary (person)
• Arp — cosponsor (person)
• Boles — cosponsor (person)
• Carter — cosponsor (person)
• Clampitt — cosponsor (person)
• Cleveland — cosponsor (person)
• Gillespie — cosponsor (person)
• Goodwin — cosponsor (person)
• Greene — cosponsor (person)
• Howard — cosponsor (person)
• Humphrey — cosponsor (person)
• Hurley — cosponsor (person)
• Johnson — cosponsor (person)
• K. Baker — cosponsor (person)
• McNeely — cosponsor (person)
• McNeill — cosponsor (person)
• Moffitt — cosponsor (person)
• Moss — cosponsor (person)
• Penny — cosponsor (person)
• Pierce — cosponsor (person)
• Pittman — cosponsor (person)
• Pless — cosponsor (person)
• Riddell — cosponsor (person)
• Setzer — cosponsor (person)
• Stevens — cosponsor (person)
• Strickland — cosponsor (person)
• White — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-09-16 Ch. SL 2021-156 became-law
• 2021-09-16 Signed by Gov. 9/16/2021 executive-signature
• 2021-09-07 Pres. To Gov. 9/7/2021 executive-receipt
• 2021-09-03 Ratified
• 2021-09-01 Ordered Enrolled
• 2021-09-01 Passed 3rd Reading passage, reading-3
• 2021-09-01 Passed 2nd Reading reading-2
• 2021-08-31 Reptd Fav committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-08-26 Re-ref Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate referral-committee
• 2021-08-26 Reptd Fav committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-08-05 Re-ref to Health Care. If fav, re-ref to Rules and Operations of the Senate referral-committee
• 2021-08-05 Withdrawn From Com
• 2021-05-06 Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate referral-committee
• 2021-05-06 Passed 1st Reading reading-1
• 2021-05-06 Regular Message Received From House
• 2021-05-06 Regular Message Sent To Senate
• 2021-05-05 Passed 3rd Reading passage, reading-3
• 2021-05-05 Passed 2nd Reading reading-2
• 2021-05-04 Placed On Cal For 05/05/2021
• 2021-05-04 Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
• 2021-05-04 Reptd Fav committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-04-28 Re-ref Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House referral-committee
• 2021-04-28 Reptd Fav committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-04-20 Re-ref Com On State Government referral-committee
• 2021-04-20 Reptd Fav committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-03-31 Ref to the Com on Health, if favorable, State Government, if favorable, Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House referral-committee
• 2021-03-31 Passed 1st Reading reading-1
• 2021-03-30 Filed introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f58afdc9-7f0c-43fd-a72e-63a293969072. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).