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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Accounting Workforce Development Act."
+description: "Accounting Workforce Development Act."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
+legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "SB 321"
+citation: "North Carolina SB 321 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["ACCOUNTANTS; ACCOUNTING; BOARDS; CPA EXAMINERS BOARD; EDUCATION; EMPLOYMENT; LICENSING & CERTIFICATION; OCCUPATIONS; PRESENTED; PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION; PUBLIC; RATIFIED; CHAPTERED"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Britt", "Overcash"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 30
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2025-03-18"
+last_action: "2025-07-01"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/02371efc-1603-4b99-8877-2242bbf8708b"
+source_url: "https://www.ncleg.gov/BillLookUp/2025/S321"
+source_hash: "026d664e75578fe6b47e6cdb6c4986a3111f159a2b524583626afa81a5dfaa63"
+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 SB 321 (2025) — Accounting Workforce Development Act.
+
+## 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/Senate/PDF/S321v0.pdf)
+2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/Senate/PDF/S321v1.pdf)
+3. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/Senate/PDF/S321v2.pdf)
+4. **SL 2025-35** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/Senate/PDF/S321v3.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Second Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper
+- Second Reading — **109–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Britt — primary (person)
+- Overcash — primary (person)
+- Lazzara — cosponsor (person)
+- Moffitt — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-07-01** Ch. SL 2025-35 `became-law`
+- **2025-07-01** Signed by Gov. 7/1/2025 `executive-signature`
+- **2025-06-26** Pres. To Gov. 6/26/2025 `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-06-25** Ratified
+- **2025-06-24** Ordered Enrolled
+- **2025-06-24** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
+- **2025-06-24** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
+- **2025-06-24** Added to Calendar
+- **2025-06-24** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
+- **2025-06-24** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-06-19** Re-ref Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
+- **2025-06-19** Withdrawn From Com
+- **2025-06-04** Re-ref to the Com on Regulatory Reform, if favorable, Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
+- **2025-06-04** Withdrawn From Com
+- **2025-04-08** Ref To Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
+- **2025-04-08** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
+- **2025-04-07** Regular Message Received From Senate
+- **2025-04-07** Regular Message Sent To House
+- **2025-04-03** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
+- **2025-04-03** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
+- **2025-04-02** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-04-01** Re-ref Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
+- **2025-04-01** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-03-26** Re-ref to Judiciary. If fav, re-ref to Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-26** Withdrawn From Com
+- **2025-03-24** Re-ref to Education/Higher Education. If fav, re-ref to Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-24** Withdrawn From Com
+- **2025-03-19** Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-19** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
+- **2025-03-18** Filed `introduction`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/02371efc-1603-4b99-8877-2242bbf8708b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).
+