---
type: "Bill"
title: "2025 Omnibus Labor Amendments."
description: "2025 Omnibus Labor Amendments."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 568"
citation: "North Carolina HB 568 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["COUNCIL OF STATE; COURTS; DEATH & DYING; DHHS; EMPLOYMENT; EVIDENCE; INSPECTIONS; LABOR DEPT.; MEDICAL EXAMINERS; OSH; PERSONNEL; PRESENTED; PUBLIC; PUBLIC OFFICIALS; RATIFIED; SAFETY; STATE EMPLOYEES; WITNESSES; WORK SAFETY; CHAPTERED; LABOR COMMISSIONER; ELEVATORS & ESCALATORS; GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES; CHIEF MEDICAL EXAMINER"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gable", "Huneycutt", "K. Hall"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 33
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-03-27"
last_action: "2025-06-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b4bd065a-1775-416b-8636-9df6b1973f49"
source_url: "https://www.ncleg.gov/BillLookUp/2025/H568"
source_hash: "62cc770a0957adfe080d7f332db0ed2ecacc706ee5f14f6c00ed11c4a9db460a"
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 568 (2025) — 2025 Omnibus Labor Amendments.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Filed** (filed) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H568v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H568v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H568v2.pdf)
4. **Edition 3** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H568v3.pdf)
5. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H568v4.pdf)
6. **SL 2025-28** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H568v5.pdf)

## Votes

- M11 Concur — **72–42** (pass) · lower
- Second Reading — **26–17** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Gable — primary (person)
- Huneycutt — primary (person)
- K. Hall — primary (person)
- McNeely — cosponsor (person)
- Schietzelt — cosponsor (person)
- Ward — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-06-27** Ch. SL 2025-28 `became-law`
- **2025-06-27** Signed by Gov. 6/27/2025 `executive-signature`
- **2025-06-19** Pres. To Gov. 6/19/2025 `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-18** Ratified
- **2025-06-17** Ordered Enrolled
- **2025-06-17** Concurred In S Com Sub `amendment-passage`
- **2025-06-12** Placed On Cal For 06/17/2025
- **2025-06-12** Cal Pursuant 36(b)
- **2025-06-11** Regular Message Received For Concurrence in S Com Sub
- **2025-06-11** Regular Message Sent To House
- **2025-06-10** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-06-10** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-06-09** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-06-04** Re-ref Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2025-06-04** Com Substitute Adopted
- **2025-06-04** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-27** Re-ref to Judiciary. If fav, re-ref to Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2025-05-27** Withdrawn From Com
- **2025-04-30** Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-30** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-04-30** Regular Message Received From House
- **2025-04-30** Regular Message Sent To Senate
- **2025-04-29** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-29** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-04-28** Placed On Cal For 04/29/2025
- **2025-04-28** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2025-04-28** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-15** Re-ref Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-15** Serial Referral To Commerce and Economic Development Stricken
- **2025-04-15** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-31** Ref to the Com on Judiciary 2, if favorable, Commerce and Economic Development, if favorable, Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-31** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-03-27** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b4bd065a-1775-416b-8636-9df6b1973f49`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).