---
type: "Bill"
title: "Charlotte Firefighters' Retirement."
description: "Charlotte Firefighters' Retirement."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2015"
identifier: "HB 70"
citation: "North Carolina HB 70 (2015)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["COUNTIES", "EMERGENCY SERVICES", "FIREFIGHTERS & FIREFIGHTING", "LOCAL", "MUNICIPALITIES", "PERSONNEL", "RATIFIED", "RETIREMENT", "SALARIES & BENEFITS", "SESSION LAWS", "MECKLENBURG COUNTY", "CHARLOTTE", "CHAPTERED", "GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES", "PENSION & RETIREMENT FUNDS"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bishop"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 22
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2015-02-10"
last_action: "2015-06-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/216f9b8e-926f-4362-af33-0015d351f0f5"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2015&BillID=H70&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "bfed9d80e7b809216eaaae573dfb87cc7b535e1ea5d809da15a6fd89e716bfb3"
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 70 (2015) — Charlotte Firefighters' Retirement.

## 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/2015/Bills/House/PDF/H70v0.pdf)
2. **A1: ASH-5-V-1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://webservices.ncleg.net/ViewBillDocument/2015/2538/0/H70-ASH-5-V-1)
3. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2015/Bills/House/PDF/H70v1.pdf)
4. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2015/Bills/House/PDF/H70v2.pdf)
5. **Edition 3** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2015/Bills/House/PDF/H70v3.pdf)
6. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2015/Bills/House/PDF/H70v4.pdf)
7. **SL2015-42** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2015/Bills/House/PDF/H70v5.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **118–0** (pass) · lower
- A1 Bishop Second Reading — **118–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Bishop — primary (person)
- Alexander — cosponsor (person)
- Bradford — cosponsor (person)
- Bryan — cosponsor (person)
- Jeter — cosponsor (person)
- R. Moore — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2015-06-01** Ch. SL 2015-42 `became-law`
- **2015-06-01** Ratified
- **2015-05-28** Ordered Enrolled
- **2015-05-28** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2015-05-28** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2015-05-27** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2015-04-01** Ref To Com On Pensions & Retirement and Aging `referral-committee`
- **2015-04-01** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2015-04-01** Regular Message Received From House
- **2015-04-01** Regular Message Sent To Senate
- **2015-03-31** Ordered Engrossed
- **2015-03-31** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2015-03-31** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2015-03-31** Amend Adopted A1 `amendment-passage`
- **2015-03-30** Placed On Cal For 03/31/2015
- **2015-03-30** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2015-03-30** Withdrawn From Com
- **2015-03-24** Re-ref Com On Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2015-03-24** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2015-02-12** Ref to the Com on Pensions and Retirement, if favorable, Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2015-02-12** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2015-02-10** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/216f9b8e-926f-4362-af33-0015d351f0f5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).