---
type: "Bill"
title: "Continuing Education for General Contractors."
description: "Continuing Education for General Contractors."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 55"
citation: "North Carolina SB 55 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["BOARDS", "CONSTRUCTION", "EDUCATION", "GENERAL CONTRACTORS BOARD", "LICENSING & CERTIFICATION", "OCCUPATIONS", "PRESENTED", "PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION", "PUBLIC", "RATIFIED", "CHAPTERED"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gunn", "Newton"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 38
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-02-13"
last_action: "2019-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b769ab65-b4ee-4ccc-b6b7-f9dc6ef5d443"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2019&BillID=S55&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "904fa7425446c42dab0daf118a8eb309510610a7255b9fda95ae2b4b0d253868"
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 55 (2019) — Continuing Education for General Contractors.

## 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/Senate/PDF/S55v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2019/Bills/Senate/PDF/S55v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2019/Bills/Senate/PDF/S55v2.pdf)
4. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2019/Bills/Senate/PDF/S55v3.pdf)
5. **SL 2019-72** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2019/Bills/Senate/PDF/S55v4.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **108–3** (pass) · lower
- Second Reading — **33–2** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Gunn — primary (person)
- Newton — primary (person)
- B. Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- Ballard — cosponsor (person)
- Bishop — cosponsor (person)
- Blue — cosponsor (person)
- Britt — cosponsor (person)
- Burgin — cosponsor (person)
- Chaudhuri — cosponsor (person)
- Clark — cosponsor (person)
- D. Davis — cosponsor (person)
- Edwards — cosponsor (person)
- Foushee — cosponsor (person)
- Garrett — cosponsor (person)
- Hise — cosponsor (person)
- J. Alexander — cosponsor (person)
- J. Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- Krawiec — cosponsor (person)
- Lowe — cosponsor (person)
- Marcus — cosponsor (person)
- McInnis — cosponsor (person)
- McKissick — cosponsor (person)
- Mohammed — cosponsor (person)
- Nickel — cosponsor (person)
- Perry — cosponsor (person)
- Peterson — cosponsor (person)
- Robinson — cosponsor (person)
- Searcy — cosponsor (person)
- Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Steinburg — cosponsor (person)
- T. Alexander — cosponsor (person)
- Tillman — cosponsor (person)
- Van Duyn — cosponsor (person)
- Waddell — cosponsor (person)
- Woodard — cosponsor (person)
- deViere — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-07-01** Ch. SL 2019-72 `became-law`
- **2019-07-01** Signed by Gov. 7/1/2019 `executive-signature`
- **2019-06-26** Pres. To Gov. 6/26/2019 `executive-receipt`
- **2019-06-26** Ratified
- **2019-06-25** Ordered Enrolled
- **2019-06-25** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-06-25** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2019-06-24** Placed On Cal For 06/25/2019
- **2019-06-24** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2019-06-24** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-06-19** Re-ref Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2019-06-19** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-06-04** Serial Referral To Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House Added
- **2019-06-04** Re-ref Com On Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-06-04** Serial Referral To Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House Stricken
- **2019-06-04** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-05-23** Re-ref to the Com on Regulatory Reform, if favorable, Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-23** Withdrawn From Com
- **2019-04-25** Ref To Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-25** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2019-04-22** Regular Message Received From Senate
- **2019-04-22** Regular Message Sent To House
- **2019-04-18** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-04-18** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2019-04-17** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-10** Re-ref Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-10** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-03** Re-ref Com On Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-03** Com Substitute Adopted
- **2019-04-03** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-26** Sequential Referral To Rules and Operations of the Senate Added
- **2019-03-26** Sequential Referral To Finance Added
- **2019-03-26** Sequential Referral To Rules and Operations of the Senate Stricken
- **2019-03-07** Re-ref to Agriculture/Environment/Natural Resources. If fav, re-ref to Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-07** Withdrawn From Com
- **2019-02-14** Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-14** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2019-02-13** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b769ab65-b4ee-4ccc-b6b7-f9dc6ef5d443`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).