---
type: "Bill"
title: "Amend Winston-Salem Firemen's Retire. Fund."
description: "Amend Winston-Salem Firemen's Retire. Fund."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2003"
identifier: "SB 276"
citation: "North Carolina SB 276 (2003)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ACTUARIAL NOTES", "COUNTIES", "EMERGENCY SERVICES", "EMPLOYMENT", "FIREFIGHTING", "FUNDS & ACCOUNTS", "LOCAL", "MUNICIPALITIES", "PERSONNEL", "RATIFIED", "RETIREMENT", "SALARIES & BENEFITS", "SESSION LAWS", "SEN. HORTON", "FORSYTH COUNTY", "WINSTON-SALEM", "CHAPTERED"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 4
action_count: 15
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2003-03-03"
last_action: "2003-05-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/01ae284e-a520-462a-90c0-5cb95e296c80"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2003&BillID=S276&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "f9859179319352a11e5da723f27edb6589e1049cc6cdc17d9c5e78e879ea420b"
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 SB 276 (2003) — Amend Winston-Salem Firemen's Retire. Fund.

## 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/Senate/PDF/S276v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/Senate/PDF/S276v1.pdf)
3. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/Senate/PDF/S276v2.pdf)
4. **SL 2003-35** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/Senate/PDF/S276v3.pdf)

## Votes

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

## Sponsors

- Garrou — cosponsor (person)
- Horton — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2003-05-13** Ch. SL 2003-35 `became-law`
- **2003-05-13** Ratified
- **2003-05-12** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2003-05-08** Placed On Cal For 5/12/2003
- **2003-05-07** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2003-05-07** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2003-05-01** Ref To Com On Pensions and Retirement `referral-committee`
- **2003-05-01** Rec From Senate
- **2003-05-01** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2003-04-30** Placed On Cal For 5/1/2003
- **2003-04-30** Withdrawn From Comm
- **2003-04-30** Re-ref Com On Finance `referral-committee`
- **2003-04-30** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2003-03-04** Ref To Com On Pensions & Retirement and Aging `referral-committee`
- **2003-03-03** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/01ae284e-a520-462a-90c0-5cb95e296c80`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).