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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Prohibit Litigation Investments/Amend Workers' Compensation Benefits."
+description: "Prohibit Litigation Investments/Amend Workers' Compensation Benefits."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
+legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "HB 315"
+citation: "North Carolina HB 315 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["COMMERCE; CONSUMER PROTECTION; CRIMES; EMPLOYMENT; FINANCIAL SERVICES; INSURANCE; PRESENTED; PUBLIC; RATIFIED; RETAILING; THEFT; WORKERS COMPENSATION"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Carson Smith", "Miller", "Pyrtle"]
+version_count: 7
+action_count: 37
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2025-03-05"
+last_action: "2026-06-22"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/478ab3e2-f803-4fb0-b324-e3318a45a2a6"
+source_url: "https://www.ncleg.gov/BillLookUp/2025/H315"
+source_hash: "ea7273a58626a78c0b6ebf5e130412f5cd2b19442f258ae261ecd246642b4dd7"
+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 315 (2025) — Prohibit Litigation Investments/Amend Workers' Compensation Benefits.
+
+## 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/H315v0.pdf)
+2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H315v1.pdf)
+3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H315v2.pdf)
+4. **Edition 3** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H315v3.pdf)
+5. **Edition 4** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H315v4.pdf)
+6. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H315v5.pdf)
+7. **SL 2026-14** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H315v6.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Second Reading — **45–1** (pass) · upper
+- M11 Concur — **112–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Carson Smith — primary (person)
+- Miller — primary (person)
+- Pyrtle — primary (person)
+- Biggs — cosponsor (person)
+- Brisson — cosponsor (person)
+- Carver — cosponsor (person)
+- Charles Smith — cosponsor (person)
+- Clark — cosponsor (person)
+- Cotham — cosponsor (person)
+- Crawford — cosponsor (person)
+- Cunningham — cosponsor (person)
+- Dew — cosponsor (person)
+- F. Jackson — cosponsor (person)
+- G. Brown — cosponsor (person)
+- G. Pierce — cosponsor (person)
+- Hastings — cosponsor (person)
+- Hawkins — cosponsor (person)
+- Humphrey — cosponsor (person)
+- Huneycutt — cosponsor (person)
+- Johnson — cosponsor (person)
+- Kidwell — cosponsor (person)
+- Lowery — cosponsor (person)
+- McNeely — cosponsor (person)
+- N. Jackson — cosponsor (person)
+- R. Pierce — cosponsor (person)
+- Reives — cosponsor (person)
+- Rhyne — cosponsor (person)
+- Schietzelt — cosponsor (person)
+- Scott — cosponsor (person)
+- Setzer — cosponsor (person)
+- Strickland — cosponsor (person)
+- T. Brown — cosponsor (person)
+- Turner — cosponsor (person)
+- Ward — cosponsor (person)
+- Warren — cosponsor (person)
+- White — cosponsor (person)
+- Willingham — cosponsor (person)
+- Willis — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2026-06-22** Ch. SL 2026-14 `became-law`
+- **2026-06-22** Signed by Gov. 6/22/2026 `executive-signature`
+- **2026-06-12** Pres. To Gov. 6/12/2026 `executive-receipt`
+- **2026-06-11** Ratified
+- **2026-06-10** Ordered Enrolled
+- **2026-06-10** Concurred In S Com Sub `amendment-passage`
+- **2026-06-10** Added to Calendar
+- **2026-06-10** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
+- **2026-06-10** Regular Message Received For Concurrence in S Com Sub
+- **2026-06-10** 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`
+- **2026-06-02** Re-ref to Judiciary. If fav, re-ref to Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
+- **2026-06-02** Withdrawn From Com
+- **2025-06-18** Re-ref Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
+- **2025-06-18** Com Substitute Adopted
+- **2025-06-18** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-06-09** Re-ref to Judiciary. If fav, re-ref to Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
+- **2025-06-09** Withdrawn From Com
+- **2025-03-27** Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-27** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
+- **2025-03-27** Regular Message Received From House
+- **2025-03-27** Regular Message Sent To Senate
+- **2025-03-26** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
+- **2025-03-26** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
+- **2025-03-24** Placed On Cal For 03/26/2025
+- **2025-03-24** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
+- **2025-03-24** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-03-18** Re-ref Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-18** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-03-10** Ref to the Com on Judiciary 2, if favorable, Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-10** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
+- **2025-03-05** Filed `introduction`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/478ab3e2-f803-4fb0-b324-e3318a45a2a6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).
+