North Carolina 2025-2026 Regular Session

North Carolina House Bill H452 Compare Versions

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Old	New		Differences
1	1		GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
2	2		SESSION 2025
3		-	H 1
4		-	HOUSE BILL 452
	3	+	H D
	4	+	HOUSE BILL DRH30209-ML-113
	5	+
5	6
6	7
7	8		Short Title: Revise Law/Obstruction of Health Facility. (Public)
8		-	Sponsors: Representatives Greenfield, K. Brown, Johnson-Hostler, and Cunningham
9		-	(Primary Sponsors).
10		-	For a complete list of sponsors, refer to the North Carolina General Assembly web site.
11		-	Referred to: Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House
12		-	March 20, 2025
13		-	H452 -v-1
	9	+	Sponsors: Representative Greenfield.
	10	+	Referred to:
	11	+
	12	+	DRH30209 -ML-113
14	13		A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1
15	14		AN ACT TO REVISE THE CRIMINAL OFFENSE OF OBSTRUCTION OF HEALTH CARE 2
16	15		FACILITIES. 3
17	16		The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts: 4
18	17		SECTION 1. G.S. 14-277.4 reads as rewritten: 5
19	18		"§ 14-277.4. Obstruction of health care facilities. 6
20	19		(a) No person shall obstruct or block another person's access to or egress from a health 7
21	20		care facility or from the common areas of the real property upon which the facility is located in 8
22	21		a manner that deprives or delays the person from obtaining or providing health care services in 9
23	22		the facility. 10
24	23		(b) No person shall injure or threaten to injure a person who is or has been:been doing 11
25	24		any of the following: 12
26	25		(1) Obtaining health care services;services. 13
27	26		(2) Lawfully aiding another to obtain health care services; orservices. 14
28	27		(3) Providing health care services. 15
29	28		(b1) No person shall knowingly approach another person within 8 feet of such person, 16
30	29		unless such other person consents, for the purpose of passing a leaflet or handbill to, displaying 17
31	30		a sign to, or engaging in oral protest, education, or counseling with such other person in the public 18
32	31		way or sidewalk area within a radius of 100 feet from any entrance door to a health care facility. 19
33	32		(c) A violation of subsection (a) or (b) of this section is a Class 2 misdemeanor. A second 20
34	33		conviction for a violation of either subsection (a) or (b) of this section within three years of the 21
35	34		first shall be punishable as a Class 1 misdemeanor. A third second or subsequent conviction for 22
36	35		a violation of either subsection (a) or (b) of this section within three years of the second or most 23
37	36		recent conviction shall be punishable as a Class I felony. 24
38	37		…." 25
39	38		SECTION 2. This act becomes effective December 1, 2025, and applies to offenses 26
40	39		committed on or after that date. 27
	40	+	H.B. 452
	41	+	Mar 18, 2025
	42	+	HOUSE PRINCIPAL CLERK