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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Worker Safety Act of 2026."
+description: "Worker Safety Act of 2026."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
+legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "HB 258"
+citation: "North Carolina HB 258 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["ASSAULT; COUNCIL OF STATE; CRIMES; DISCRIMINATION; INFRASTRUCTURE; INVESTIGATIONS; LABOR DEPT.; PERSONNEL; PRESENTED; PUBLIC; PUBLIC OFFICIALS; RATIFIED; SAFETY; TITLE CHANGE; UTILITIES; WHISTLEBLOWERS; WORK SAFETY; CHAPTERED; LABOR COMMISSIONER"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Crawford", "K. Hall", "Miller"]
+version_count: 8
+action_count: 36
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2025-03-03"
+last_action: "2026-06-22"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a6be9ad9-5ff0-4a45-b6ea-5250238811c7"
+source_url: "https://www.ncleg.gov/BillLookUp/2025/H258"
+source_hash: "cf45aa6b5e291ba9b4522f605f278a7704d1e0f0403a31e266ab10bbb8039d47"
+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 258 (2025) — Worker Safety Act of 2026.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Filed** (filed) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H258v0.pdf)
+2. **A1: ABR-20-V-3** (committee substitute) — [source](https://webservices.ncleg.gov/ViewBillDocument/2025/4074/0/H258-ABR-20-V-3)
+3. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H258v1.pdf)
+4. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H258v2.pdf)
+5. **Edition 3** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H258v3.pdf)
+6. **Edition 4** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H258v4.pdf)
+7. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H258v5.pdf)
+8. **SL 2026-13** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H258v6.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Second Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper
+- M11 Concur — **108–5** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Crawford — primary (person)
+- K. Hall — primary (person)
+- Miller — primary (person)
+- Almond — cosponsor (person)
+- Alston — cosponsor (person)
+- Arp — cosponsor (person)
+- Baker — cosponsor (person)
+- Balkcom — cosponsor (person)
+- Biggs — cosponsor (person)
+- Blackwell — cosponsor (person)
+- Blust — cosponsor (person)
+- Branson — cosponsor (person)
+- Brisson — cosponsor (person)
+- Brockman — cosponsor (person)
+- Buansi — cosponsor (person)
+- Budd — cosponsor (person)
+- Butler — cosponsor (person)
+- Cairns — cosponsor (person)
+- Carney — cosponsor (person)
+- Carver — cosponsor (person)
+- Cervania — cosponsor (person)
+- Clark — cosponsor (person)
+- Cohn — cosponsor (person)
+- Colvin — cosponsor (person)
+- Dahle — cosponsor (person)
+- Echevarria — cosponsor (person)
+- F. Jackson — cosponsor (person)
+- G. Brown — cosponsor (person)
+- G. Pierce — cosponsor (person)
+- Greenfield — cosponsor (person)
+- Harrison — cosponsor (person)
+- Hawkins — cosponsor (person)
+- Helfrich — cosponsor (person)
+- Howard — cosponsor (person)
+- Huneycutt — cosponsor (person)
+- Jeffers — cosponsor (person)
+- Johnson — cosponsor (person)
+- Kidwell — cosponsor (person)
+- Lambeth — cosponsor (person)
+- Liu — cosponsor (person)
+- Loftis — cosponsor (person)
+- Logan — cosponsor (person)
+- Lopez — cosponsor (person)
+- Majeed — cosponsor (person)
+- McNeely — cosponsor (person)
+- Morey — cosponsor (person)
+- N. Jackson — cosponsor (person)
+- Pittman — cosponsor (person)
+- Price — cosponsor (person)
+- Pyrtle — cosponsor (person)
+- R. Pierce — cosponsor (person)
+- Reeder — cosponsor (person)
+- Riddell — cosponsor (person)
+- Rubin — cosponsor (person)
+- Setzer — cosponsor (person)
+- Ward — cosponsor (person)
+- Watford — cosponsor (person)
+- Wheatley — cosponsor (person)
+- White — cosponsor (person)
+- Willingham — cosponsor (person)
+- Zenger — cosponsor (person)
+- von Haefen — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2026-06-22** Ch. SL 2026-13 `became-law`
+- **2026-06-22** Signed by Gov. 6/22/2026 `executive-signature`
+- **2026-06-18** Pres. To Gov. 6/18/2026 `executive-receipt`
+- **2026-06-17** Ratified
+- **2026-06-16** Ordered Enrolled
+- **2026-06-16** Concurred In S Com Sub `amendment-passage`
+- **2026-06-15** Placed On Cal For 06/16/2026
+- **2026-06-15** Cal Pursuant 36(b)
+- **2026-06-11** Regular Message Received For Concurrence in S Com Sub
+- **2026-06-11** Regular Message Sent To House
+- **2026-06-09** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
+- **2026-06-09** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
+- **2026-06-08** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2026-06-03** Re-ref Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
+- **2026-06-03** Com Substitute Adopted
+- **2026-06-03** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2026-05-28** Re-ref to Judiciary. If fav, re-ref to Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
+- **2026-05-28** Withdrawn From Com
+- **2025-04-10** Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
+- **2025-04-10** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
+- **2025-04-10** Regular Message Received From House
+- **2025-04-10** Regular Message Sent To Senate
+- **2025-04-09** Ordered Engrossed
+- **2025-04-09** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
+- **2025-04-09** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
+- **2025-04-09** Amend Adopted A1 `amendment-passage`
+- **2025-04-03** Placed On Cal For 04/09/2025
+- **2025-04-03** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
+- **2025-04-03** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-04-01** Re-ref Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
+- **2025-04-01** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-03-19** Re-ref Com On Judiciary 2 `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-19** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-03-04** Ref to the Com on Energy and Public Utilities, if favorable, Judiciary 2, if favorable, Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-04** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
+- **2025-03-03** Filed `introduction`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a6be9ad9-5ff0-4a45-b6ea-5250238811c7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).
+