---
type: "Bill"
title: "Salary Increases/Adult Correctional Employees."
description: "Salary Increases/Adult Correctional Employees."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 609"
citation: "North Carolina HB 609 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["APPROPRIATIONS", "BUDGET & MANAGEMENT OFFICE", "BUDGETING", "CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTIONS", "COURTS", "CRIMES", "CRIMINAL PROCEDURE", "CRIMINAL RECORDS", "EMERGENCY SERVICES", "EMPLOYMENT", "JUVENILE CODE", "MINORS", "PERSONNEL", "PRESENTED", "PUBLIC", "RATIFIED", "REPORTS", "SALARIES & BENEFITS", "STATE EMPLOYEES", "TITLE CHANGE", "RECORDS", "CHAPTERED", "GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES", "PUBLIC SAFETY DEPT."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Faircloth", "McNeill", "R. Turner"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 36
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-04-04"
last_action: "2019-08-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/75863c85-6698-4a5a-9609-3ffb7a6bd0c9"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2019&BillID=H609&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "929fa771403fe03bb3169ae2ace75b1d6954a9cc8d0dd9fc870d7d5304c3485d"
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 609 (2019) — Salary Increases/Adult Correctional Employees.

## 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/2019/Bills/House/PDF/H609v0.pdf)
2. **A1: ATV-18-V-1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://webservices.ncleg.gov/ViewBillDocument/2019/3554/0/H609-ATV-18-V-1)
3. **A1: Scanned Document** (committee substitute) — [source](https://webservices.ncleg.gov/ViewBillDocument/2019/6345/0/H609-A-NBC-7117)
4. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2019/Bills/House/PDF/H609v1.pdf)
5. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2019/Bills/House/PDF/H609v2.pdf)
6. **Edition 3** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2019/Bills/House/PDF/H609v3.pdf)
7. **Edition 4** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2019/Bills/House/PDF/H609v4.pdf)
8. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2019/Bills/House/PDF/H609v5.pdf)
9. **SL 2019-208** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2019/Bills/House/PDF/H609v6.pdf)

## Votes

- M11 Concur — **113–0** (pass) · lower
- Amendment 1 — **43–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Faircloth — primary (person)
- McNeill — primary (person)
- R. Turner — primary (person)
- Farmer-Butterfield — cosponsor (person)
- Gill — cosponsor (person)
- Goodwin — cosponsor (person)
- Holley — cosponsor (person)
- Lucas — cosponsor (person)
- McGrady — cosponsor (person)
- Pierce — cosponsor (person)
- Richardson — cosponsor (person)
- Rogers — cosponsor (person)
- Stevens — cosponsor (person)
- Willingham — cosponsor (person)
- Wray — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-08-30** Ch. SL 2019-208 `became-law`
- **2019-08-30** Signed by Gov. 8/30/2019 `executive-signature`
- **2019-08-28** Pres. To Gov. 8/28/2019 `executive-receipt`
- **2019-08-28** Ratified
- **2019-08-28** Ordered Enrolled
- **2019-08-28** Concurred In S Com Sub `amendment-passage`
- **2019-08-27** Placed On Cal For 08/28/2019
- **2019-08-27** Cal Pursuant 36(b)
- **2019-08-27** Special Message Received For Concurrence in S Com Sub
- **2019-08-27** Special Message Sent To House
- **2019-08-26** Engrossed
- **2019-08-26** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-08-26** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2019-08-26** Amend Adopted A1 `amendment-passage`
- **2019-08-22** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-08-21** Re-ref Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2019-08-21** Com Substitute Adopted
- **2019-08-21** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-08-20** Re-ref to Appropriations/Base Budget. If fav, re-ref to Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2019-08-20** Withdrawn From Com
- **2019-04-17** Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-17** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2019-04-17** Regular Message Received From House
- **2019-04-17** Regular Message Sent To Senate
- **2019-04-16** Ordered Engrossed
- **2019-04-16** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-04-16** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2019-04-16** Amend Adopted A1 `amendment-passage`
- **2019-04-16** Added to Calendar
- **2019-04-16** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2019-04-16** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-15** Re-ref Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-15** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-08** Ref to the Com on Judiciary, if favorable, Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-08** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2019-04-04** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/75863c85-6698-4a5a-9609-3ffb7a6bd0c9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).