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type: "Bill"
title: "Retirement Death Benefits Rewrite."
description: "Retirement Death Benefits Rewrite."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 477"
citation: "North Carolina HB 477 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["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"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Carson Smith"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 37
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-03-20"
last_action: "2025-06-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bfb1d6d1-285c-4150-980c-797e3a323c1b"
source_url: "https://www.ncleg.gov/BillLookUp/2025/H477"
source_hash: "f62c373aa5ef4745a0ade9a8735f5a6299e96cb39119a6b2636fd959b7b38866"
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 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](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H477v0.pdf)
2. **A1: ARN-6-V-4** (committee substitute) — [source](https://webservices.ncleg.gov/ViewBillDocument/2025/5046/0/H477-ARN-6-V-4)
3. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H477v1.pdf)
4. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H477v2.pdf)
5. **Edition 3** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H477v3.pdf)
6. **Edition 4** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H477v4.pdf)
7. **Edition 5** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H477v5.pdf)
8. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H477v6.pdf)
9. **SL 2025-11** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H477v7.pdf)
## Votes
- Second Reading — **400** (pass) · upper
- M11 Concur — **1130** (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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/bfb1d6d1-285c-4150-980c-797e3a323c1b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).