---
type: "Bill"
title: "Fair Contracts."
description: "Fair Contracts."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 871"
citation: "North Carolina HB 871 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ARCHITECTS", "ARCHITECTURE", "CONSTRUCTION", "CONTRACTS", "ENGINEERING", "ENGINEERS", "LANDSCAPING", "OCCUPATIONS", "PRESENTED", "PUBLIC", "RATIFIED", "SURETY & FIDELITY", "SURVEYING", "LIABILITY", "CHAPTERED"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Arp", "Reives", "Stevens"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 34
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-04-16"
last_action: "2019-07-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d7383260-b8ee-4a9e-9cb4-dc6af62d5f18"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2019&BillID=H871&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "4e390faf0880f7388d8a4ea40e2f31384ec823df51fc4c527f32ab9ba9adadb3"
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 871 (2019) — Fair Contracts.

## 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/2019/Bills/House/PDF/H871v0.pdf)
2. **A1: AST-44-V-4** (committee substitute) — [source](https://webservices.ncleg.gov/ViewBillDocument/2019/5121/0/H871-AST-44-V-4)
3. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2019/Bills/House/PDF/H871v1.pdf)
4. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2019/Bills/House/PDF/H871v2.pdf)
5. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2019/Bills/House/PDF/H871v3.pdf)
6. **SL 2019-92** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2019/Bills/House/PDF/H871v4.pdf)

## Votes

- M11 Concur Sen. Amd. 1 — **111–0** (pass) · lower
- Second Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Arp — primary (person)
- Reives — primary (person)
- Stevens — primary (person)
- Cunningham — cosponsor (person)
- Floyd — cosponsor (person)
- Garrison — cosponsor (person)
- Hawkins — cosponsor (person)
- Lucas — cosponsor (person)
- Pierce — cosponsor (person)
- R. Smith — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-07-08** Ch. SL 2019-92 `became-law`
- **2019-07-08** Signed by Gov. 7/8/2019 `executive-signature`
- **2019-06-28** Pres. To Gov. 6/28/2019 `executive-receipt`
- **2019-06-27** Ratified
- **2019-06-27** Ordered Enrolled
- **2019-06-27** Concurred In S Amend SA1 `amendment-passage`
- **2019-06-26** Placed On Cal For 06/27/2019
- **2019-06-26** Cal Pursuant 36(b)
- **2019-06-26** Special Message Received For Concurrence in S Amend
- **2019-06-26** Special Message Sent To House
- **2019-06-26** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-06-26** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2019-06-26** Amend Adopted A1 `amendment-passage`
- **2019-06-25** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-06-18** Re-ref Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2019-06-18** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-06-13** Re-ref to Judiciary. If fav, re-ref to Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2019-06-13** Withdrawn From Com
- **2019-05-06** Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-06** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2019-05-06** Regular Message Received From House
- **2019-05-03** Regular Message Sent To Senate
- **2019-05-02** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-05-02** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2019-05-02** Added to Calendar
- **2019-05-02** Withdrawn From Cal
- **2019-05-02** Placed On Cal For 05/03/2019
- **2019-05-02** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2019-05-02** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-30** Re-ref Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-30** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-22** Ref to the Com on Commerce, if favorable, Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-22** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2019-04-16** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d7383260-b8ee-4a9e-9cb4-dc6af62d5f18`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).