---
type: "Bill"
title: "Fire and Rescue/Survivor's Benefit."
description: "Fire and Rescue/Survivor's Benefit."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2011"
identifier: "SB 244"
citation: "North Carolina SB 244 (2011)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["DEATH & DYING", "DEATH BENEFITS", "EMERGENCY SERVICES", "EMPLOYMENT", "FIREFIGHTERS & FIREFIGHTING", "INSURANCE", "INSURANCE", "LIFE", "LGERS", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "PERSONNEL", "PRESENTED", "PUBLIC", "RATIFIED", "RESCUE SQUADS", "RETIREMENT", "CHAPTERED", "SEN. BRUNSTETTER"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 5
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2011-03-07"
last_action: "2011-05-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ff1a86f5-a739-4fd4-b0d7-a13bfde3500c"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2011&BillID=S244&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "7b3dc0828917c84c873c7cc12f6a1e18f7153642e46301d40bd9096bdc1c878e"
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 244 (2011) — Fire and Rescue/Survivor's Benefit.

## 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/Senate/PDF/S244v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/Senate/PDF/S244v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/Senate/PDF/S244v2.pdf)
4. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/Senate/PDF/S244v3.pdf)
5. **SL2011-92** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/Senate/PDF/S244v4.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **49–0** (pass) · upper
- Second Reading — **113–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Atwater — cosponsor (person)
- Blake — cosponsor (person)
- Brunstetter — cosponsor (person)
- Davis — cosponsor (person)
- Forrester — cosponsor (person)
- Harrington — cosponsor (person)
- Hunt — cosponsor (person)
- Rabon — cosponsor (person)
- Stevens — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2011-05-26** Ch. SL 2011-92 `became-law`
- **2011-05-26** Signed By Gov. 5/26/2011 `executive-signature`
- **2011-05-17** Pres. To Gov. 5/17/2011 `executive-receipt`
- **2011-05-16** Ratified
- **2011-05-12** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2011-05-11** Placed On Cal For 5/12/2011
- **2011-05-11** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2011-05-11** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-05-05** Re-ref Com On State Personnel `referral-committee`
- **2011-05-05** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-04-06** Ref To Com On Government `referral-committee`
- **2011-04-06** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2011-04-04** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2011-03-31** Com Substitute Adopted
- **2011-03-31** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-03-14** Re-ref Com On Pensions & Retirement and Aging `referral-committee`
- **2011-03-14** Withdrawn From Com
- **2011-03-08** Ref To Com On Insurance `referral-committee`
- **2011-03-08** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2011-03-07** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ff1a86f5-a739-4fd4-b0d7-a13bfde3500c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).