---
type: "Bill"
title: "Amend Charlotte Firefighters' Retirement Act."
description: "Amend Charlotte Firefighters' Retirement Act."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2001"
identifier: "HB 604"
citation: "North Carolina HB 604 (2001)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ACTUARIAL NOTES", "EMERGENCY SERVICES", "FIREFIGHTING", "FUNDS & ACCOUNTS", "LOCAL", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "MUNICIPALITIES", "PERSONNEL", "RATIFIED", "RETIREMENT", "SALARIES & BENEFITS", "SESSION LAWS", "REP. ALEXANDER", "MECKLENBURG COUNTY", "CHARLOTTE", "CHAPTERED"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 3
action_count: 12
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2001-03-13"
last_action: "2001-04-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0cb5df74-6949-4deb-857d-119dfa39f36f"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2001&BillID=H604&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "ddf152df2f27bd0dc4bdb32756e73d6df7a9d544ff82b48ffb2259e878c42817"
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 604 (2001) — Amend Charlotte Firefighters' Retirement Act.

## Version chain

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

1. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2001/Bills/House/PDF/H604v1.pdf)
2. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2001/Bills/House/PDF/H604v2.pdf)
3. **SL 2001-22** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2001/Bills/House/PDF/H604v3.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **48–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Alexander — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2001-04-16** Ch. SL 2001-22 `became-law`
- **2001-04-16** Ratified
- **2001-04-12** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2001-04-11** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2001-04-04** Ref To Com On Pensions & Retirement and Aging `referral-committee`
- **2001-04-04** Rec From House
- **2001-04-03** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2001-04-02** Placed On Cal For 4/3/2001
- **2001-04-02** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2001-04-02** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2001-03-14** Ref To Com On Pensions and Retirement `referral-committee`
- **2001-03-13** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0cb5df74-6949-4deb-857d-119dfa39f36f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).