---
type: "Bill"
title: "Electrician Requirements for Certain Orgs."
description: "Electrician Requirements for Certain Orgs."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 88"
citation: "North Carolina SB 88 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["BOARDS", "CONSTRUCTION", "CORPORATIONS", "NONPROFIT", "EDUCATION", "EDUCATION BOARDS", "ELECTRICAL CONTRACTORS BOARD", "HEALTH SERVICES", "HOSPITALS", "LICENSING & CERTIFICATION", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "OCCUPATIONS", "PERSONNEL", "PRESENTED", "PUBLIC", "RATIFIED", "CHAPTERED"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Sawyer"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 30
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-02-19"
last_action: "2019-07-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/023afd5f-28a6-4d1f-a149-dc9b20a77b72"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2019&BillID=S88&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "9ac2a646a015e0a8e1f8d83c8bcb86a09c37cf889506d6fabead4697dbcfbb5c"
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 88 (2019) — Electrician Requirements for Certain Orgs.

## 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/S88v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2019/Bills/Senate/PDF/S88v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2019/Bills/Senate/PDF/S88v2.pdf)
4. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2019/Bills/Senate/PDF/S88v3.pdf)
5. **SL 2019-78** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2019/Bills/Senate/PDF/S88v4.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **48–0** (pass) · upper
- Second Reading — **115–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Sawyer — primary (person)
- Perry — cosponsor (person)
- T. Alexander — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-07-04** Ch. SL 2019-78 `became-law`
- **2019-07-04** Signed by Gov. 7/4/2019 `executive-signature`
- **2019-06-27** Pres. To Gov. 6/27/2019 `executive-receipt`
- **2019-06-27** Ratified
- **2019-06-26** Ordered Enrolled
- **2019-06-26** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-06-26** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2019-06-25** Placed On Cal For 06/26/2019
- **2019-06-25** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2019-06-25** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-06-20** Re-ref Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2019-06-20** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-05-30** Re-ref to the Com on Regulatory Reform, if favorable, Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-30** Withdrawn From Com
- **2019-05-01** Ref To Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-01** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2019-04-30** Regular Message Received From Senate
- **2019-04-30** Regular Message Sent To House
- **2019-04-29** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-04-29** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2019-04-18** Placed On Cal For 04/29/2019
- **2019-04-18** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-17** Re-ref Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-17** Com Substitute Adopted
- **2019-04-17** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **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
- **2019-02-20** 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/023afd5f-28a6-4d1f-a149-dc9b20a77b72`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).