---
type: "Bill"
title: "Law Enforcement Officers Special Separation Allowance Options."
description: "Law Enforcement Officers Special Separation Allowance Options."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 50"
citation: "North Carolina HB 50 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["EMERGENCY SERVICES; LAW ENFORCEMENT; LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS; PAROLE & PROBATION; PERSONNEL; PRESENTED; PUBLIC; RATIFIED; RETIREMENT; CHAPTERED"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chesser", "Miller", "Pyrtle"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 30
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-02-04"
last_action: "2025-06-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/77e35937-2b00-4e59-b737-5d3881bb6196"
source_url: "https://www.ncleg.gov/BillLookUp/2025/H50"
source_hash: "8df21589b5500624d4da44639e0349dcea587b8b50bace15b9d330a0127a11d8"
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 50 (2025) — Law Enforcement Officers Special Separation Allowance Options.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Filed** (filed) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H50v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H50v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H50v2.pdf)
4. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H50v3.pdf)
5. **SL 2025-8** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H50v4.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **117–0** (pass) · lower
- Second Reading — **43–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Chesser — primary (person)
- Miller — primary (person)
- Pyrtle — primary (person)
- Almond — cosponsor (person)
- Baker — cosponsor (person)
- Belk — cosponsor (person)
- Biggs — cosponsor (person)
- Branson — cosponsor (person)
- Carson Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Carver — cosponsor (person)
- Cohn — cosponsor (person)
- Cotham — cosponsor (person)
- Greene — cosponsor (person)
- Harrison — cosponsor (person)
- Iler — cosponsor (person)
- K. Brown — cosponsor (person)
- Kidwell — cosponsor (person)
- Loftis — cosponsor (person)
- Logan — cosponsor (person)
- McNeely — cosponsor (person)
- Morey — cosponsor (person)
- Moss — cosponsor (person)
- Pickett — cosponsor (person)
- Price — cosponsor (person)
- R. Pierce — cosponsor (person)
- Reeder — cosponsor (person)
- Riddell — cosponsor (person)
- Ross — cosponsor (person)
- Scott — cosponsor (person)
- Ward — cosponsor (person)
- Warren — cosponsor (person)
- Willingham — cosponsor (person)
- Willis — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-06-13** Ch. SL 2025-8 `became-law`
- **2025-06-13** Signed by Gov. 6/13/2025 `executive-signature`
- **2025-06-12** Pres. To Gov. 6/12/2025 `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-11** Ratified
- **2025-06-10** Ordered Enrolled
- **2025-06-10** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-06-10** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-06-09** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-20** Re-ref Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2025-05-20** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-19** Re-ref to Pensions and Retirement and Aging. If fav, re-ref to Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2025-05-19** Withdrawn From Com
- **2025-04-03** Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-03** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-04-03** Regular Message Received From House
- **2025-04-02** Regular Message Sent To Senate
- **2025-04-01** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-01** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-03-31** Placed On Cal For 04/01/2025
- **2025-03-31** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2025-03-31** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-26** Re-ref Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-26** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-18** Re-ref Com On Pensions and Retirement `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-18** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-04** Re-ref Com On State and Local Government `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-04** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-05** Ref to the Com on Judiciary 1, if favorable, State and Local Government, if favorable, Pensions and Retirement, if favorable, Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-05** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-02-04** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/77e35937-2b00-4e59-b737-5d3881bb6196`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).