---
type: "Bill"
title: "Small Business Health Care Act."
description: "Small Business Health Care Act."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 86"
citation: "North Carolina SB 86 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ADMINISTRATIVE CODE", "ADMINISTRATIVE RULES", "COMMERCE", "CORPORATIONS", "FOR-PROFIT", "DHHS", "EMPLOYMENT", "HEALTH SERVICES", "INSURANCE", "INSURANCE DEPT.", "INSURANCE", "HEALTH", "PERSONNEL", "PRESENTED", "PUBLIC", "RATIFIED", "REPORTS", "SALARIES & BENEFITS", "SMALL BUSINESSES", "CHAPTERED"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bishop", "Krawiec"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 41
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-02-19"
last_action: "2019-08-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6e9be807-ca0f-4c85-b129-a2418ac5dc7f"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2019&BillID=S86&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "903b890f49c71fd4148eee85afa8ad637db1a133f66a1ab0c10b01a1d7174c6d"
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 86 (2019) — Small Business Health Care Act.

## 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/S86v0.pdf)
2. **A1: Scanned Document** (committee substitute) — [source](https://webservices.ncleg.gov/ViewBillDocument/2019/6129/0/S86-A-NBC-6048)
3. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2019/Bills/Senate/PDF/S86v1.pdf)
4. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2019/Bills/Senate/PDF/S86v2.pdf)
5. **Edition 3** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2019/Bills/Senate/PDF/S86v3.pdf)
6. **Edition 4** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2019/Bills/Senate/PDF/S86v4.pdf)
7. **Edition 5** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2019/Bills/Senate/PDF/S86v5.pdf)
8. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2019/Bills/Senate/PDF/S86v6.pdf)
9. **SL 2019-202** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2019/Bills/Senate/PDF/S86v7.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading M8 Re-Refer Insurance — **50–64** (fail) · lower
- Motion 9 To Concur — **32–9** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Bishop — primary (person)
- Krawiec — primary (person)
- Ballard — cosponsor (person)
- Brown — cosponsor (person)
- Burgin — cosponsor (person)
- Daniel — cosponsor (person)
- Edwards — cosponsor (person)
- Ford — cosponsor (person)
- Hise — cosponsor (person)
- J. Davis — cosponsor (person)
- Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- McInnis — cosponsor (person)
- Newton — cosponsor (person)
- Perry — cosponsor (person)
- Steinburg — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-08-26** Ch. SL 2019-202 `became-law`
- **2019-08-26** Became Law W/o Signature `became-law`
- **2019-08-15** Pres. To Gov. 8/15/2019 `executive-receipt`
- **2019-08-14** Ratified
- **2019-08-13** Ordered Enrolled
- **2019-08-13** Concurred In H Com Sub `amendment-passage`
- **2019-08-09** Regular Message Received For Concurrence in H Com Sub
- **2019-08-08** Regular Message Sent To Senate
- **2019-08-07** Ordered Engrossed
- **2019-08-07** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-08-07** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2019-08-07** Amend Tabled A2
- **2019-08-07** Amend Adopted A1 `amendment-passage`
- **2019-08-06** Placed On Cal For 08/07/2019
- **2019-08-06** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2019-08-06** Reptd Fav Com Sub 2 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-06-27** Re-ref Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2019-06-27** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-06-17** Re-ref to the Com on Health, if favorable, Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2019-06-17** Withdrawn From Com
- **2019-06-17** Serial Referral To Insurance Stricken
- **2019-03-19** Ref to the Com on Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House, if favorable, Health, if favorable, Insurance, if favorable, Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-19** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2019-03-18** Regular Message Received From Senate
- **2019-03-18** Regular Message Sent To House
- **2019-03-14** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-03-13** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2019-03-13** Amend Tabled A3
- **2019-03-13** Amend Tabled A2
- **2019-03-13** Amend Tabled A1
- **2019-03-12** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-07** Re-ref Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-07** Com Substitute Adopted
- **2019-03-07** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-28** Re-ref Com On Health Care `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-28** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-21** Re-ref to Commerce and Insurance. If fav, re-ref to Health Care. If fav, re-ref to Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-21** Withdrawn From Com
- **2019-02-20** Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-20** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2019-02-19** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6e9be807-ca0f-4c85-b129-a2418ac5dc7f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).