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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Lineman Appreciation Day in NC."
+description: "Lineman Appreciation Day in NC."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
+legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
+session: "2015"
+identifier: "HB 140"
+citation: "North Carolina HB 140 (2015)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["CALENDAR", "EMPLOYMENT", "INFRASTRUCTURE", "PERSONNEL", "PRESENTED", "PUBLIC", "RATIFIED", "UTILITIES", "CHAPTERED"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Bradford", "Hastings", "Pendleton"]
+version_count: 5
+action_count: 22
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2015-03-03"
+last_action: "2015-04-16"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fefc41d0-1f47-4f7f-9850-02ebc6df7479"
+source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2015&BillID=H140&votesToView=all"
+source_hash: "7ee36fb385dbcae4981056f1a2d3e1abcdd72e0e669b97d04187f93e33af9730"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-nc"]
+---
+
+# North Carolina HB 140 (2015) — Lineman Appreciation Day in NC.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Filed** (filed) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2015/Bills/House/PDF/H140v0.pdf)
+2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2015/Bills/House/PDF/H140v1.pdf)
+3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2015/Bills/House/PDF/H140v2.pdf)
+4. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2015/Bills/House/PDF/H140v3.pdf)
+5. **SL2015-8** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2015/Bills/House/PDF/H140v4.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Second Reading — **50–0** (pass) · upper
+- Second Reading — **118–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Bradford — primary (person)
+- Hastings — primary (person)
+- Pendleton — primary (person)
+- B. Richardson — cosponsor (person)
+- Baskerville — cosponsor (person)
+- C. Graham — cosponsor (person)
+- Carney — cosponsor (person)
+- Cunningham — cosponsor (person)
+- Farmer-Butterfield — cosponsor (person)
+- Fisher — cosponsor (person)
+- Floyd — cosponsor (person)
+- Gill — cosponsor (person)
+- Glazier — cosponsor (person)
+- Hager — cosponsor (person)
+- Hamilton — cosponsor (person)
+- Harrison — cosponsor (person)
+- Holley — cosponsor (person)
+- Hurley — cosponsor (person)
+- Insko — cosponsor (person)
+- J. Bell — cosponsor (person)
+- Jeter — cosponsor (person)
+- Jones — cosponsor (person)
+- Lambeth — cosponsor (person)
+- Lucas — cosponsor (person)
+- McNeill — cosponsor (person)
+- R. Johnson — cosponsor (person)
+- S. Martin — cosponsor (person)
+- Salmon — cosponsor (person)
+- Steinburg — cosponsor (person)
+- Waddell — cosponsor (person)
+- Wray — cosponsor (person)
+- Yarborough — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2015-04-16** Ch. SL 2015-8 `became-law`
+- **2015-04-16** Signed by Gov. 4/16/2015 `executive-signature`
+- **2015-04-15** Pres. To Gov. 4/15/2015 `executive-receipt`
+- **2015-04-15** Ratified
+- **2015-04-15** Ordered Enrolled
+- **2015-04-15** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
+- **2015-04-15** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
+- **2015-04-14** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2015-04-13** Re-ref Com On State and Local Government `referral-committee`
+- **2015-04-13** Withdrawn From Com
+- **2015-04-02** Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
+- **2015-04-02** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
+- **2015-04-02** Regular Message Received From House
+- **2015-04-02** Regular Message Sent To Senate
+- **2015-04-01** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
+- **2015-04-01** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
+- **2015-03-31** Placed On Cal For 04/01/2015
+- **2015-03-31** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
+- **2015-03-31** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2015-03-04** Ref To Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
+- **2015-03-04** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
+- **2015-03-03** Filed `introduction`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/fefc41d0-1f47-4f7f-9850-02ebc6df7479`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).
+