---
type: "Bill"
title: "Enhance Local Retirement Benefits."
description: "Enhance Local Retirement Benefits."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2003"
identifier: "HB 1170"
citation: "North Carolina HB 1170 (2003)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ACTUARIAL NOTES", "EMPLOYMENT", "LGERS", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "PERSONNEL", "PRESENTED", "PUBLIC", "RATIFIED", "RETIREMENT", "SALARIES & BENEFITS", "REP. BELL", "CHAPTERED"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 5
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2003-04-09"
last_action: "2003-07-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d5d179a7-43d9-4f03-af63-0ee30682802d"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2003&BillID=H1170&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "68867b9f3771098e11acf2b681b5dc4d815475b3a9a1c5ae99b78a8cacdd4213"
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 1170 (2003) — Enhance Local Retirement Benefits.

## Version chain

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

1. **Filed** (filed) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/House/PDF/H1170v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/House/PDF/H1170v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/House/PDF/H1170v2.pdf)
4. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/House/PDF/H1170v3.pdf)
5. **SL 2003-319** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/House/PDF/H1170v4.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **44–1** (pass) · upper
- Second Reading — **116–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Bell — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2003-07-16** Ch. SL 2003-319 `became-law`
- **2003-07-16** Signed By Gov. 7/15/2003 `executive-signature`
- **2003-07-16** Pres. To Gov. 7/15/2003 `executive-receipt`
- **2003-07-15** Ratified
- **2003-07-14** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2003-07-14** Placed On Cal For 7/14/2003
- **2003-07-14** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2003-07-14** Re-ref Com On Appropriations/Base Budget `referral-committee`
- **2003-07-14** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2003-07-09** Ref to Pensions & Retirement and Aging. If fav, re-ref to Appropriations/Base Budget `referral-committee`
- **2003-07-09** Rec From House
- **2003-07-09** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2003-07-09** Placed On Cal For 7/9/2003
- **2003-07-09** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2003-05-07** Re-ref Com On Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2003-05-07** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2003-04-10** Ref To Com On Pensions and Retirement `referral-committee`
- **2003-04-09** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d5d179a7-43d9-4f03-af63-0ee30682802d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).