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type: "Bill"
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title: "Worker Safety Act of 2026."
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description: "Worker Safety Act of 2026."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
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legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
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session: "2025"
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identifier: "HB 258"
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citation: "North Carolina HB 258 (2025)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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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"]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Crawford", "K. Hall", "Miller"]
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version_count: 8
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action_count: 36
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vote_count: 2
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first_action: "2025-03-03"
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last_action: "2026-06-22"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a6be9ad9-5ff0-4a45-b6ea-5250238811c7"
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source_url: "https://www.ncleg.gov/BillLookUp/2025/H258"
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source_hash: "cf45aa6b5e291ba9b4522f605f278a7704d1e0f0403a31e266ab10bbb8039d47"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-nc"]
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---
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# North Carolina HB 258 (2025) — Worker Safety Act of 2026.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **Filed** (filed) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H258v0.pdf)
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2. **A1: ABR-20-V-3** (committee substitute) — [source](https://webservices.ncleg.gov/ViewBillDocument/2025/4074/0/H258-ABR-20-V-3)
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3. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H258v1.pdf)
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4. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H258v2.pdf)
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5. **Edition 3** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H258v3.pdf)
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6. **Edition 4** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H258v4.pdf)
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7. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H258v5.pdf)
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8. **SL 2026-13** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H258v6.pdf)
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## Votes
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- Second Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper
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- M11 Concur — **108–5** (pass) · lower
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## Sponsors
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- Crawford — primary (person)
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- K. Hall — primary (person)
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- Miller — primary (person)
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- Almond — cosponsor (person)
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- Alston — cosponsor (person)
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- Arp — cosponsor (person)
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- Baker — cosponsor (person)
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- Balkcom — cosponsor (person)
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- Biggs — cosponsor (person)
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- Blackwell — cosponsor (person)
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- Blust — cosponsor (person)
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- Branson — cosponsor (person)
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- Brisson — cosponsor (person)
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- Brockman — cosponsor (person)
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- Buansi — cosponsor (person)
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- Budd — cosponsor (person)
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- Butler — cosponsor (person)
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- Cairns — cosponsor (person)
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- Carney — cosponsor (person)
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- Carver — cosponsor (person)
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- Cervania — cosponsor (person)
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- Clark — cosponsor (person)
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- Cohn — cosponsor (person)
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- Colvin — cosponsor (person)
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- Dahle — cosponsor (person)
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- Echevarria — cosponsor (person)
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- F. Jackson — cosponsor (person)
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- G. Brown — cosponsor (person)
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- G. Pierce — cosponsor (person)
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- Greenfield — cosponsor (person)
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- Harrison — cosponsor (person)
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- Hawkins — cosponsor (person)
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- Helfrich — cosponsor (person)
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- Howard — cosponsor (person)
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- Huneycutt — cosponsor (person)
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- Jeffers — cosponsor (person)
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- Johnson — cosponsor (person)
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- Kidwell — cosponsor (person)
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- Lambeth — cosponsor (person)
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- Liu — cosponsor (person)
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- Loftis — cosponsor (person)
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- Logan — cosponsor (person)
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- Lopez — cosponsor (person)
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- Majeed — cosponsor (person)
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- McNeely — cosponsor (person)
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- Morey — cosponsor (person)
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- N. Jackson — cosponsor (person)
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- Pittman — cosponsor (person)
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- Price — cosponsor (person)
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- Pyrtle — cosponsor (person)
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- R. Pierce — cosponsor (person)
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- Reeder — cosponsor (person)
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- Riddell — cosponsor (person)
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- Rubin — cosponsor (person)
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- Setzer — cosponsor (person)
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- Ward — cosponsor (person)
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- Watford — cosponsor (person)
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- Wheatley — cosponsor (person)
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- White — cosponsor (person)
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- Willingham — cosponsor (person)
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- Zenger — cosponsor (person)
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- von Haefen — cosponsor (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2026-06-22** Ch. SL 2026-13 `became-law`
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- **2026-06-22** Signed by Gov. 6/22/2026 `executive-signature`
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- **2026-06-18** Pres. To Gov. 6/18/2026 `executive-receipt`
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- **2026-06-17** Ratified
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- **2026-06-16** Ordered Enrolled
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- **2026-06-16** Concurred In S Com Sub `amendment-passage`
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- **2026-06-15** Placed On Cal For 06/16/2026
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- **2026-06-15** Cal Pursuant 36(b)
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- **2026-06-11** Regular Message Received For Concurrence in S Com Sub
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- **2026-06-11** Regular Message Sent To House
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- **2026-06-09** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
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- **2026-06-09** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
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- **2026-06-08** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2026-06-03** Re-ref Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
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- **2026-06-03** Com Substitute Adopted
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- **2026-06-03** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2026-05-28** Re-ref to Judiciary. If fav, re-ref to Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
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- **2026-05-28** Withdrawn From Com
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- **2025-04-10** Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
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- **2025-04-10** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
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- **2025-04-10** Regular Message Received From House
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- **2025-04-10** Regular Message Sent To Senate
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- **2025-04-09** Ordered Engrossed
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- **2025-04-09** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
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- **2025-04-09** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
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- **2025-04-09** Amend Adopted A1 `amendment-passage`
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- **2025-04-03** Placed On Cal For 04/09/2025
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- **2025-04-03** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
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- **2025-04-03** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2025-04-01** Re-ref Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
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- **2025-04-01** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2025-03-19** Re-ref Com On Judiciary 2 `referral-committee`
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- **2025-03-19** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **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`
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- **2025-03-04** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
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- **2025-03-03** Filed `introduction`
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## Source
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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).
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