---
type: "Bill"
title: "Retirement Allowance/Remarriage Option."
description: "Retirement Allowance/Remarriage Option."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2011"
identifier: "HB 263"
citation: "North Carolina HB 263 (2011)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["LGERS", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "MARRIAGE & FAMILY", "PERSONNEL", "PRESENTED", "PUBLIC", "RATIFIED", "RETIREMENT", "SALARIES & BENEFITS", "STATE EMPLOYEES", "TEACHERS", "TSERS", "CHAPTERED", "REP. COOK", "GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 4
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2011-03-08"
last_action: "2011-06-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c036b075-85bc-44e7-a05a-bb7f4e12384c"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2011&BillID=H263&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "93d2b994a4894cc864a7d7122067dd261ad0bb39a6647152f5111f0ab49b08e7"
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 263 (2011) — Retirement Allowance/Remarriage Option.

## 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/2011/Bills/House/PDF/H263v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/House/PDF/H263v1.pdf)
3. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/House/PDF/H263v2.pdf)
4. **SL2011-208** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/House/PDF/H263v3.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **48–0** (pass) · upper
- Second Reading — **119–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Cook — cosponsor (person)
- Dixon — cosponsor (person)
- LaRoque — cosponsor (person)
- Starnes — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2011-06-23** Ch. SL 2011-208 `became-law`
- **2011-06-23** Signed By Gov. 6/23/2011 `executive-signature`
- **2011-06-16** Pres. To Gov. 6/16/2011 `executive-receipt`
- **2011-06-15** Ratified
- **2011-06-14** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2011-06-08** Placed On Cal For 6/14/2011
- **2011-06-08** Withdrawn From Cal
- **2011-06-08** Placed On Cal For 6/8/2011
- **2011-06-08** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-04-04** Ref To Com On Pensions & Retirement and Aging `referral-committee`
- **2011-04-04** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2011-04-01** Rec From House
- **2011-03-31** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2011-03-30** Placed On Cal For 3/31/2011
- **2011-03-30** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2011-03-30** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-03-09** Ref To Com On State Personnel `referral-committee`
- **2011-03-09** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2011-03-08** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c036b075-85bc-44e7-a05a-bb7f4e12384c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).