---
type: "Bill"
title: "Worker Safety Act of 2026."
description: "Worker Safety Act of 2026."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 258"
citation: "North Carolina HB 258 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ASSAULT; COUNCIL OF STATE; CRIMES; DISCRIMINATION; INFRASTRUCTURE; INVESTIGATIONS; LABOR DEPT.; PERSONNEL; PRESENTED; PUBLIC; PUBLIC OFFICIALS; RATIFIED; SAFETY; TITLE CHANGE; UTILITIES; WHISTLEBLOWERS; WORK SAFETY; CHAPTERED; LABOR COMMISSIONER"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Crawford", "K. Hall", "Miller"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 36
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-03-03"
last_action: "2026-06-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a6be9ad9-5ff0-4a45-b6ea-5250238811c7"
source_url: "https://www.ncleg.gov/BillLookUp/2025/H258"
source_hash: "cf45aa6b5e291ba9b4522f605f278a7704d1e0f0403a31e266ab10bbb8039d47"
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 258 (2025) — Worker Safety Act of 2026.

## 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/H258v0.pdf)
2. **A1: ABR-20-V-3** (committee substitute) — [source](https://webservices.ncleg.gov/ViewBillDocument/2025/4074/0/H258-ABR-20-V-3)
3. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H258v1.pdf)
4. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H258v2.pdf)
5. **Edition 3** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H258v3.pdf)
6. **Edition 4** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H258v4.pdf)
7. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H258v5.pdf)
8. **SL 2026-13** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H258v6.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper
- M11 Concur — **108–5** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Crawford — primary (person)
- K. Hall — primary (person)
- Miller — primary (person)
- Almond — cosponsor (person)
- Alston — cosponsor (person)
- Arp — cosponsor (person)
- Baker — cosponsor (person)
- Balkcom — cosponsor (person)
- Biggs — cosponsor (person)
- Blackwell — cosponsor (person)
- Blust — cosponsor (person)
- Branson — cosponsor (person)
- Brisson — cosponsor (person)
- Brockman — cosponsor (person)
- Buansi — cosponsor (person)
- Budd — cosponsor (person)
- Butler — cosponsor (person)
- Cairns — cosponsor (person)
- Carney — cosponsor (person)
- Carver — cosponsor (person)
- Cervania — cosponsor (person)
- Clark — cosponsor (person)
- Cohn — cosponsor (person)
- Colvin — cosponsor (person)
- Dahle — cosponsor (person)
- Echevarria — cosponsor (person)
- F. Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- G. Brown — cosponsor (person)
- G. Pierce — cosponsor (person)
- Greenfield — cosponsor (person)
- Harrison — cosponsor (person)
- Hawkins — cosponsor (person)
- Helfrich — cosponsor (person)
- Howard — cosponsor (person)
- Huneycutt — cosponsor (person)
- Jeffers — cosponsor (person)
- Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Kidwell — cosponsor (person)
- Lambeth — cosponsor (person)
- Liu — cosponsor (person)
- Loftis — cosponsor (person)
- Logan — cosponsor (person)
- Lopez — cosponsor (person)
- Majeed — cosponsor (person)
- McNeely — cosponsor (person)
- Morey — cosponsor (person)
- N. Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- Pittman — cosponsor (person)
- Price — cosponsor (person)
- Pyrtle — cosponsor (person)
- R. Pierce — cosponsor (person)
- Reeder — cosponsor (person)
- Riddell — cosponsor (person)
- Rubin — cosponsor (person)
- Setzer — cosponsor (person)
- Ward — cosponsor (person)
- Watford — cosponsor (person)
- Wheatley — cosponsor (person)
- White — cosponsor (person)
- Willingham — cosponsor (person)
- Zenger — cosponsor (person)
- von Haefen — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2026-06-22** Ch. SL 2026-13 `became-law`
- **2026-06-22** Signed by Gov. 6/22/2026 `executive-signature`
- **2026-06-18** Pres. To Gov. 6/18/2026 `executive-receipt`
- **2026-06-17** Ratified
- **2026-06-16** Ordered Enrolled
- **2026-06-16** Concurred In S Com Sub `amendment-passage`
- **2026-06-15** Placed On Cal For 06/16/2026
- **2026-06-15** Cal Pursuant 36(b)
- **2026-06-11** Regular Message Received For Concurrence in S Com Sub
- **2026-06-11** Regular Message Sent To House
- **2026-06-09** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2026-06-09** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2026-06-08** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-06-03** Re-ref Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2026-06-03** Com Substitute Adopted
- **2026-06-03** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-05-28** Re-ref to Judiciary. If fav, re-ref to Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2026-05-28** Withdrawn From Com
- **2025-04-10** Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-10** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-04-10** Regular Message Received From House
- **2025-04-10** Regular Message Sent To Senate
- **2025-04-09** Ordered Engrossed
- **2025-04-09** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-09** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-04-09** Amend Adopted A1 `amendment-passage`
- **2025-04-03** Placed On Cal For 04/09/2025
- **2025-04-03** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2025-04-03** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-01** Re-ref Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-01** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-19** Re-ref Com On Judiciary 2 `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-19** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-04** Ref to the Com on Energy and Public Utilities, if favorable, Judiciary 2, if favorable, Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-04** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-03-03** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a6be9ad9-5ff0-4a45-b6ea-5250238811c7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).