---
type: "Bill"
title: "Workforce Enrichment/Veterans."
description: "Workforce Enrichment/Veterans."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2015"
identifier: "SB 545"
citation: "North Carolina SB 545 (2015)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ARMED FORCES", "BOARDS", "EMPLOYMENT", "LICENSING & CERTIFICATION", "OCCUPATIONAL TESTING", "OCCUPATIONS", "PERSONNEL", "PRESENTED", "PUBLIC", "RATIFIED", "TESTING", "VETERANS", "CHAPTERED"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Rabin", "Sanderson"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 26
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2015-03-26"
last_action: "2015-07-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/110582c0-f20e-415d-b526-33939d5aee26"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2015&BillID=S545&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "f2f0d3a167cdebc6b40bde26f534294117c464bba422c92d86aa07ece0136e31"
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 545 (2015) — Workforce Enrichment/Veterans.

## 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/Senate/PDF/S545v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2015/Bills/Senate/PDF/S545v1.pdf)
3. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2015/Bills/Senate/PDF/S545v2.pdf)
4. **SL2015-143** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2015/Bills/Senate/PDF/S545v3.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **48–0** (pass) · upper
- Second Reading — **107–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Rabin — primary (person)
- Sanderson — primary (person)
- Cook — cosponsor (person)
- D. Davis — cosponsor (person)
- J. Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- Krawiec — cosponsor (person)
- Lowe — cosponsor (person)
- Pate — cosponsor (person)
- Waddell — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2015-07-08** Ch. SL 2015-143 `became-law`
- **2015-07-08** Signed by Gov. 7/8/2015 `executive-signature`
- **2015-07-01** Pres. To Gov. 07/01/2015 `executive-receipt`
- **2015-06-30** Ratified
- **2015-06-29** Ordered Enrolled
- **2015-06-29** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2015-06-29** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2015-06-25** Placed On Cal For 06/29/2015
- **2015-06-25** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2015-06-25** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2015-06-24** Re-ref Com On Homeland Security, Military, and Veterans Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2015-06-24** Withdrawn From Com
- **2015-04-30** Ref To Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2015-04-30** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2015-04-30** Regular Message Received From Senate
- **2015-04-30** Regular Message Sent To House
- **2015-04-29** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2015-04-29** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2015-04-28** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2015-04-15** Re-ref Com On Judiciary I `referral-committee`
- **2015-04-15** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2015-04-06** Re-ref to Workforce and Economic Development. If fav, re-ref to Judiciary I `referral-committee`
- **2015-04-06** Withdrawn From Com
- **2015-03-30** Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2015-03-30** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2015-03-26** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/110582c0-f20e-415d-b526-33939d5aee26`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).