---
type: "Bill"
title: "Accounting Workforce Development Act."
description: "Accounting Workforce Development Act."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 321"
citation: "North Carolina SB 321 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ACCOUNTANTS; ACCOUNTING; BOARDS; CPA EXAMINERS BOARD; EDUCATION; EMPLOYMENT; LICENSING & CERTIFICATION; OCCUPATIONS; PRESENTED; PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION; PUBLIC; RATIFIED; CHAPTERED"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Britt", "Overcash"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 30
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-03-18"
last_action: "2025-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/02371efc-1603-4b99-8877-2242bbf8708b"
source_url: "https://www.ncleg.gov/BillLookUp/2025/S321"
source_hash: "026d664e75578fe6b47e6cdb6c4986a3111f159a2b524583626afa81a5dfaa63"
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 321 (2025) — Accounting Workforce Development Act.

## 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/S321v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/Senate/PDF/S321v1.pdf)
3. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/Senate/PDF/S321v2.pdf)
4. **SL 2025-35** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/Senate/PDF/S321v3.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper
- Second Reading — **109–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Britt — primary (person)
- Overcash — primary (person)
- Lazzara — cosponsor (person)
- Moffitt — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-07-01** Ch. SL 2025-35 `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** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-06-24** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-06-24** Added to Calendar
- **2025-06-24** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2025-06-24** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-06-19** Re-ref Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2025-06-19** Withdrawn From Com
- **2025-06-04** Re-ref to the Com on Regulatory Reform, if favorable, Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2025-06-04** 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`
- **2025-03-26** Re-ref to Judiciary. If fav, re-ref to Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-26** Withdrawn From Com
- **2025-03-24** Re-ref to Education/Higher Education. If fav, re-ref to Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-24** Withdrawn From Com
- **2025-03-19** Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-19** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-03-18** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/02371efc-1603-4b99-8877-2242bbf8708b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).