---
type: "Bill"
title: "State Hiring Accessibility and Modernization."
description: "State Hiring Accessibility and Modernization."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 124"
citation: "North Carolina SB 124 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ADMINISTRATIVE CODE; ADMINISTRATIVE RULES; ARMED FORCES; COMMISSIONS; EDUCATION; EMPLOYMENT; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; INTERNET; NOTIFICATION; PERSONNEL; PRESENTED; PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION; PUBLIC; RATIFIED; REPORTING; REPORTS; SALARIES & BENEFITS; STATE EMPLOYEES; TITLE CHANGE; VETERANS; CHAPTERED; ELECTRONIC GOVERNMENT; NATIONAL GUARD; GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES; HUMAN RESOURCES COMN.; HUMAN RESOURCES OFFICE"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Corbin", "Lee"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 34
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-02-21"
last_action: "2025-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b35b58b6-6daa-417b-9173-f09404b6dccb"
source_url: "https://www.ncleg.gov/BillLookUp/2025/S124"
source_hash: "8619c1f1182e13a746d97093eb58839e48be799154d5b6a045a689edf3658944"
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 124 (2025) — State Hiring Accessibility and Modernization.

## 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/Senate/PDF/S124v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/Senate/PDF/S124v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/Senate/PDF/S124v2.pdf)
4. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/Senate/PDF/S124v3.pdf)
5. **SL 2025-34** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/Senate/PDF/S124v4.pdf)

## Votes

- Motion 9 To Concur — **45–0** (pass) · upper
- Second Reading — **110–3** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Corbin — primary (person)
- Lee — primary (person)
- Adcock — cosponsor (person)
- Alexander — cosponsor (person)
- Brinson — cosponsor (person)
- Britt — cosponsor (person)
- Burgin — cosponsor (person)
- Chitlik — cosponsor (person)
- Ford — cosponsor (person)
- Galey — cosponsor (person)
- Grafstein — cosponsor (person)
- Hanig — cosponsor (person)
- Hise — cosponsor (person)
- Hollo — cosponsor (person)
- Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Jones — cosponsor (person)
- Lowe — cosponsor (person)
- Mayfield — cosponsor (person)
- McInnis — cosponsor (person)
- Mohammed — cosponsor (person)
- Overcash — cosponsor (person)
- Salvador — cosponsor (person)
- Settle — cosponsor (person)
- Waddell — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-07-01** Ch. SL 2025-34 `became-law`
- **2025-07-01** Signed by Gov. 7/1/2025 `executive-signature`
- **2025-06-26** Pres. To Gov. 6/26/2025 `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-25** Ratified
- **2025-06-24** Ordered Enrolled
- **2025-06-24** Concurred In H Com Sub `amendment-passage`
- **2025-06-24** Placed on Today's Calendar
- **2025-06-24** Withdrawn From Com
- **2025-06-18** Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2025-06-18** Special Message Received For Concurrence in H Com Sub
- **2025-06-18** Special Message Sent To Senate
- **2025-06-17** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-06-17** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-06-17** Added to Calendar
- **2025-06-17** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2025-06-17** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-06-10** Re-ref Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2025-06-10** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-29** Re-ref to the Com on State and Local Government, if favorable, Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2025-05-29** Withdrawn From Com
- **2025-04-08** Ref To Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-08** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-04-07** Regular Message Received From Senate
- **2025-04-07** Regular Message Sent To House
- **2025-04-03** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-03** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-04-02** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-01** Re-ref Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-01** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-20** Re-ref to State and Local Government. If fav, re-ref to Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-20** Withdrawn From Com
- **2025-02-24** Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-24** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-02-21** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b35b58b6-6daa-417b-9173-f09404b6dccb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).