---
type: "Bill"
title: "Increase Retirees' Contributory Death Benefit."
description: "Increase Retirees' Contributory Death Benefit."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2003"
identifier: "HB 1624"
citation: "North Carolina HB 1624 (2003)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CJRS", "DEATH & DYING", "DEATH BENEFITS", "FISCAL NOTES", "GENERAL ASSEMBLY", "INSURANCE", "INSURANCE", "LIFE", "JUDGES", "LGERS", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "LRS", "MAGISTRATES", "PRESENTED", "PUBLIC", "RATIFIED", "RETIREMENT", "SALARIES & BENEFITS", "STATE EMPLOYEES", "TEACHERS", "TSERS", "REP. BELL", "REP. G. WILSON", "CHAPTERED"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bell"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2004-05-20"
last_action: "2004-08-02"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8e861f63-b0eb-4ac2-a1c2-08a73cd36842"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2003&BillID=H1624&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "2106d7c26d7b912d86c87d2e9fec0bf70e56af63569ea5a62f055d097505f989"
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 1624 (2003) — Increase Retirees' Contributory Death Benefit.

## 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/H1624v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/House/PDF/H1624v1.pdf)
3. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/House/PDF/H1624v2.pdf)
4. **SL 2004-147** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/House/PDF/H1624v3.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **42–0** (pass) · upper
- Second Reading — **115–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Bell — primary (person)
- G. Wilson — cosponsor (person)
- Hackney — cosponsor (person)
- McLawhorn — cosponsor (person)
- Wainwright — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2004-08-02** Ch. SL 2004-147 `became-law`
- **2004-08-02** Signed By Gov. 8/2/2004 `executive-signature`
- **2004-07-12** Pres. To Gov. 7/9/2004 `executive-receipt`
- **2004-07-09** Ratified
- **2004-07-09** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2004-07-08** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2004-07-07** Ref To Com On Pensions & Retirement and Aging `referral-committee`
- **2004-07-07** Rec From House
- **2004-07-06** Placed On Cal For 7/7/2004
- **2004-07-01** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2004-07-01** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2004-06-09** Re-ref Com On Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2004-06-09** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2004-05-24** Ref to the Com on Pensions and Retirement and, if favorable, to the Com on Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2004-05-20** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8e861f63-b0eb-4ac2-a1c2-08a73cd36842`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).