---
type: "Bill"
title: "Charlotte Firefighters' Retirement Changes."
description: "Charlotte Firefighters' Retirement Changes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2005"
identifier: "HB 2223"
citation: "North Carolina HB 2223 (2005)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ACTUARIAL NOTES", "COUNTIES", "EMERGENCY SERVICES", "EMPLOYMENT", "FIREFIGHTERS & FIREFIGHTING", "MUNICIPALITIES", "PERSONNEL", "PUBLIC", "RATIFIED", "RETIREMENT", "SESSION LAWS", "REP. ALEXANDER", "MECKLENBURG COUNTY", "CHARLOTTE", "CHAPTERED"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 6
action_count: 12
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2006-05-18"
last_action: "2006-07-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/57c5907a-1f95-4531-9719-07e0232f2e93"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2005&BillID=H2223&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "c15c059a60062d9e761162c5b9a5d5d7cad96f3ebd6722fcd57976cef128354e"
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 2223 (2005) — Charlotte Firefighters' Retirement Changes.

## 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/H2223v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2005/Bills/House/PDF/H2223v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2005/Bills/House/PDF/H2223v2.pdf)
4. **Edition 3** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2005/Bills/House/PDF/H2223v3.pdf)
5. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2005/Bills/House/PDF/H2223v4.pdf)
6. **SL2006-117** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2005/Bills/House/PDF/H2223v5.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **116–0** (pass) · lower
- Second Reading — **48–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Alexander — cosponsor (person)
- Carney — cosponsor (person)
- Cunningham — cosponsor (person)
- Earle — cosponsor (person)
- Gulley — cosponsor (person)
- Saunders — cosponsor (person)
- Vinson — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2006-07-13** Ch. SL 2006-117 `became-law`
- **2006-07-13** Ratified
- **2006-07-12** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2006-07-11** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2006-06-28** Ref To Com On Pensions & Retirement and Aging `referral-committee`
- **2006-06-28** Rec From House
- **2006-06-27** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2006-06-26** Placed On Cal For 6/27/2006
- **2006-06-22** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2006-06-22** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2006-05-22** Ref To Com On Pensions and Retirement `referral-committee`
- **2006-05-18** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/57c5907a-1f95-4531-9719-07e0232f2e93`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).