---
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).