republic-os/legislation/us/states/nc/2021/sb-257.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	Medication Cost Transparency Act.	Medication Cost Transparency Act.	us/states/nc	North Carolina General Assembly	2021	SB 257	North Carolina SB 257 (2021)	bill	CHAPTERED COMMERCE CONSUMER PROTECTION DEFINITIONS HEALTH HEALTH SERVICES INSURANCE INSURANCE OCCUPATIONS PATIENT RIGHTS PHARMACEUTICALS PHARMACISTS & PHARMACIES PRESENTED PUBLIC RATIFIED	enacted	Britt Perry	10	53	2	2021-03-11	2021-09-20	openstates	ocd-bill/ddc9a363-58fe-436d-9df3-69085d29ed6f	https://www.ncleg.gov/BillLookUp/2021/S257	a00b1c2beb1d2087215717f01c21935a22602c8e34f4923c9ebfbef9b76fca3a	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-nc

North Carolina SB 257 (2021) — Medication Cost Transparency Act.

Version chain

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

1. Filed (filed) — source
2. A1: ABC-48-V-2 (committee substitute) — source
3. A1: ABC-61-V-1 (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. Ratified (committee substitute) — source
10. SL 2021-161 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Conference Rpt Motion 8 To Adopt — 41–0 (pass) · upper
• C RPT Adoption — 102–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Britt — primary (person)
• Perry — primary (person)
• Alexander — cosponsor (person)
• Barnes — cosponsor (person)
• Corbin — cosponsor (person)
• Edwards — cosponsor (person)
• Garrett — cosponsor (person)
• Jarvis — cosponsor (person)
• Johnson — cosponsor (person)
• Lazzara — cosponsor (person)
• Lowe — cosponsor (person)
• McInnis — cosponsor (person)
• Mohammed — cosponsor (person)
• Sawyer — cosponsor (person)
• Steinburg — cosponsor (person)
• deViere — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-09-20 Ch. SL 2021-161 became-law
• 2021-09-20 Signed by Gov. 9/20/2021 executive-signature
• 2021-09-10 Pres. To Gov. 9/10/2021 executive-receipt
• 2021-09-09 Ratified
• 2021-09-08 Ordered Enrolled
• 2021-09-08 Conf Report Adopted
• 2021-09-08 Added to Calendar
• 2021-09-08 Conf Com Reported
• 2021-09-08 Conf Report Adopted
• 2021-09-08 Placed on Today's Calendar
• 2021-09-08 Conf Com Reported
• 2021-08-19 Conf Com Appointed
• 2021-08-19 Conf Com Appointed
• 2021-08-19 Failed Concur In H Com Sub
• 2021-08-19 Placed on Today's Calendar
• 2021-08-19 Regular Message Received For Concurrence in H Com Sub
• 2021-08-19 Regular Message Sent To Senate
• 2021-08-18 Ordered Engrossed
• 2021-08-18 Passed 3rd Reading passage, reading-3
• 2021-08-18 Passed 2nd Reading reading-2
• 2021-08-18 Amend Adopted A1 amendment-passage
• 2021-08-18 Added to Calendar
• 2021-08-18 Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
• 2021-08-18 Serial Referral To Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House Stricken
• 2021-08-18 Reptd Fav Com Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-07-26 Serial Referral To Finance Stricken
• 2021-06-30 Re-ref Com On Health referral-committee
• 2021-06-30 Reptd Fav committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-06-22 Re-ref to the Com on Insurance, if favorable, Health, if favorable, Finance, if favorable, Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House referral-committee
• 2021-06-22 Withdrawn From Com
• 2021-06-03 Ref To Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House referral-committee
• 2021-06-03 Passed 1st Reading reading-1
• 2021-06-03 Regular Message Received From Senate
• 2021-06-02 Regular Message Sent To House
• 2021-06-01 Engrossed
• 2021-06-01 Passed 3rd Reading passage, reading-3
• 2021-06-01 Passed 2nd Reading reading-2
• 2021-06-01 Amend Adopted A1 amendment-passage
• 2021-05-28 Reptd Fav committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-05-25 Re-ref Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate referral-committee
• 2021-05-25 Reptd Fav committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-05-24 Re-ref to Finance. If fav, re-ref to Rules and Operations of the Senate referral-committee
• 2021-05-24 Withdrawn From Com
• 2021-05-20 Re-ref Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate referral-committee
• 2021-05-20 Com Substitute Adopted
• 2021-05-20 Reptd Fav Com Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-04-28 Re-ref Com On Commerce and Insurance referral-committee
• 2021-04-28 Reptd Fav committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-03-25 Re-ref to Health Care. If fav, re-ref to Commerce and Insurance. If fav, re-ref to Rules and Operations of the Senate referral-committee
• 2021-03-25 Withdrawn From Com
• 2021-03-15 Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate referral-committee
• 2021-03-15 Passed 1st Reading reading-1
• 2021-03-11 Filed introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/ddc9a363-58fe-436d-9df3-69085d29ed6f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).