---
type: "Bill"
title: "Reemployment of Certain Retired Employees."
description: "Reemployment of Certain Retired Employees."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2005"
identifier: "HB 1974"
citation: "North Carolina HB 1974 (2005)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ACTUARIAL NOTES", "COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES", "COMMUNITY COLLEGES", "EDUCATION", "EMPLOYMENT", "HIGHER EDUCATION", "PERSONNEL", "PRESENTED", "PUBLIC", "RATIFIED", "RETIREMENT", "SALARIES & BENEFITS", "STATE EMPLOYEES", "TEACHERS", "TSERS", "REP. OWENS", "CHAPTERED"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 4
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2006-05-12"
last_action: "2006-07-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3cf62204-7f39-4f28-8477-a39a64b5e373"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2005&BillID=H1974&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "6da7d591efd70cdcfb69f079674cc5038e399e1aa21159ed3ed8f7d951e8686c"
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 1974 (2005) — Reemployment of Certain Retired Employees.

## 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/2005/Bills/House/PDF/H1974v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2005/Bills/House/PDF/H1974v1.pdf)
3. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2005/Bills/House/PDF/H1974v2.pdf)
4. **SL2006-77** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2005/Bills/House/PDF/H1974v3.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **44–0** (pass) · upper
- Second Reading — **114–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- England — cosponsor (person)
- Justice — cosponsor (person)
- Owens — cosponsor (person)
- Parmon — cosponsor (person)
- Pate — cosponsor (person)
- Womble — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2006-07-10** Ch. SL 2006-77 `became-law`
- **2006-07-10** Signed By Gov. 7/10/2006 `executive-signature`
- **2006-06-30** Pres. To Gov. 6/30/2006 `executive-receipt`
- **2006-06-30** Ratified
- **2006-06-29** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2006-06-28** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2006-06-28** Re-ref Com On Pensions & Retirement and Aging `referral-committee`
- **2006-06-28** Withdrawn From Comm
- **2006-06-20** Ref To Com On Appropriations/Base Budget `referral-committee`
- **2006-06-20** Rec From House
- **2006-06-15** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2006-06-12** Placed On Cal For 6/13/2006
- **2006-06-08** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2006-06-08** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2006-05-16** Ref To Com On Pensions and Retirement `referral-committee`
- **2006-05-12** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3cf62204-7f39-4f28-8477-a39a64b5e373`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).