republic-os/legislation/us/states/nc/2025/hb-477.md

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Bill	Retirement Death Benefits Rewrite.	Retirement Death Benefits Rewrite.	us/states/nc	North Carolina General Assembly	2025	HB 477	North Carolina HB 477 (2025)	bill	CJRS; DEATH & DYING; DEATH BENEFITS; FUNDS & ACCOUNTS; GENERAL ASSEMBLY; INSURANCE; INSURANCE LIFE; JUDGES; LGERS; LOCAL GOVERNMENT; LRS; MAGISTRATES; PRESENTED; PUBLIC; RATIFIED; RETIREMENT; SALARIES & BENEFITS; STATE EMPLOYEES; TEACHERS; TSERS; CHAPTERED; GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES; LOCAL GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES	enacted	Carson Smith	9	37	2	2025-03-20	2025-06-13	openstates	ocd-bill/bfb1d6d1-285c-4150-980c-797e3a323c1b	https://www.ncleg.gov/BillLookUp/2025/H477	f62c373aa5ef4745a0ade9a8735f5a6299e96cb39119a6b2636fd959b7b38866	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-nc

North Carolina HB 477 (2025) — Retirement Death Benefits Rewrite.

Version chain

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

1. Filed (filed) — source
2. A1: ARN-6-V-4 (committee substitute) — source
3. Edition 1 (committee substitute) — source
4. Edition 2 (committee substitute) — source
5. Edition 3 (committee substitute) — source
6. Edition 4 (committee substitute) — source
7. Edition 5 (committee substitute) — source
8. Ratified (committee substitute) — source
9. SL 2025-11 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Second Reading — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• M11 Concur — 113–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Carson Smith — primary (person)
• G. Pierce — cosponsor (person)
• Wheatley — cosponsor (person)
• Willingham — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-06-13 Ch. SL 2025-11 became-law
• 2025-06-13 Signed by Gov. 6/13/2025 executive-signature
• 2025-06-05 Pres. To Gov. 6/5/2025 executive-receipt
• 2025-06-04 Ratified
• 2025-06-03 Ordered Enrolled
• 2025-06-03 Concurred In S Com Sub amendment-passage
• 2025-06-02 Placed On Cal For 06/03/2025
• 2025-06-02 Withdrawn From Com
• 2025-05-27 Ref To Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House referral-committee
• 2025-05-23 Regular Message Received For Concurrence in S Com Sub
• 2025-05-23 Regular Message Sent To House
• 2025-05-22 Passed 3rd Reading passage, reading-3
• 2025-05-22 Passed 2nd Reading reading-2
• 2025-05-21 Reptd Fav committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-05-20 Re-ref Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate referral-committee
• 2025-05-20 Com Substitute Adopted
• 2025-05-20 Reptd Fav Com Substitute 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
• 2025-04-30 Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate referral-committee
• 2025-04-30 Passed 1st Reading reading-1
• 2025-04-30 Regular Message Received From House
• 2025-04-30 Regular Message Sent To Senate
• 2025-04-29 Ordered Engrossed
• 2025-04-29 Passed 3rd Reading passage, reading-3
• 2025-04-29 Passed 2nd Reading reading-2
• 2025-04-29 Amend Adopted A1 amendment-passage
• 2025-04-28 Placed On Cal For 04/29/2025
• 2025-04-28 Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
• 2025-04-28 Reptd Fav committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-04-15 Re-ref Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House referral-committee
• 2025-04-15 Reptd Fav Com Sub 2 committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-04-09 Re-ref Com On Judiciary 1 referral-committee
• 2025-04-09 Reptd Fav Com Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-24 Ref to the Com on Pensions and Retirement, if favorable, Judiciary 1, if favorable, Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House referral-committee
• 2025-03-24 Passed 1st Reading reading-1
• 2025-03-20 Filed introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/bfb1d6d1-285c-4150-980c-797e3a323c1b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).