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H452 • 2025

Revise Law/Obstruction of Health Facility.

Revise Law/Obstruction of Health Facility.

Crime
Passed Legislature

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Sponsor
Greenfield, K. Brown, Johnson-Hostler, Cunningham, Belk, G. Brown, Carney, Clark, Dahle, Harrison, Hawkins, Logan, von Haefen
Last action
2025-03-20
Official status
Ref To Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Revise Law/Obstruction of Health Facility.

Revise Law/Obstruction of Health Facility.

What This Bill Does

  • Revise Law/Obstruction of Health Facility.

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Bill History

  1. 2025-03-20 House

    Ref To Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House

  2. 2025-03-20 House

    Passed 1st Reading

  3. 2025-03-18 House

    Filed

Official Summary Text

Revise Law/Obstruction of Health Facility.

Current Bill Text

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GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2025
H 1
HOUSE BILL 452

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