---
type: "Bill"
title: "Amend Lumberton Firemen's Pension Fund."
description: "Amend Lumberton Firemen's Pension Fund."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2011"
identifier: "HB 581"
citation: "North Carolina HB 581 (2011)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["COUNTIES", "EMERGENCY SERVICES", "FIREFIGHTERS & FIREFIGHTING", "LOCAL", "MUNICIPALITIES", "PERSONNEL", "RATIFIED", "RETIREMENT", "ROBESON COUNTY", "LUMBERTON", "CHAPTERED", "REP. PIERCE", "REP. GRAHAM", "REP. PRIDGEN", "GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Pierce", "Pridgen"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 17
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2011-03-31"
last_action: "2011-06-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3449d559-7899-4766-b40b-86b153319118"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2011&BillID=H581&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "038bb80345506a9bb8188c8ce23c2f5520b2d4a9d53d3b582c7fb2047cb337e6"
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 581 (2011) — Amend Lumberton Firemen's Pension 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/2011/Bills/House/PDF/H581v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/House/PDF/H581v1.pdf)
3. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/House/PDF/H581v2.pdf)
4. **SL2011-143** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/House/PDF/H581v3.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Pierce — primary (person)
- Pridgen — primary (person)
- Graham — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2011-06-15** Ch. SL 2011-143 `became-law`
- **2011-06-15** Ratified
- **2011-06-14** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2011-06-14** Placed On Cal For 6/14/2011
- **2011-06-14** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-06-10** Ref To Com On Pensions & Retirement and Aging `referral-committee`
- **2011-06-10** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2011-06-10** Rec From House
- **2011-06-09** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2011-06-09** Placed On Cal For 6/9/2011
- **2011-06-09** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2011-06-09** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-06-07** Re-ref Com On Finance `referral-committee`
- **2011-06-07** Withdrawn From Com
- **2011-04-04** Ref to the Com on Government, if favorable, Finance `referral-committee`
- **2011-04-04** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2011-03-31** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3449d559-7899-4766-b40b-86b153319118`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).