North Carolina legislation · 2025-2026 Session
North Carolina H662: Support the State Highway Patrol.
Status: In committee, April 30, 2026
What the bill says
An act providing compensation increases to members of the state highway patrol, directing the state highway patrol to develop secondary employment policies, encouraging retired members of the state highway patrol to return to service with the state, supporting the work of the state highway patrol, and appropriating funds.
From the introduced text:
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT PROVIDING COMPENSATION INCREASES TO MEMBERS OF THE STATE HIGHWAY PATROL, DIRECTING THE STATE HIGHWAY PATROL TO DEVELOP SECONDARY EMPLOYMENT POLICIES, ENCOURAGING RETIRED MEMBERS OF THE STATE HIGHWAY PATROL TO RETURN TO SERVICE WITH THE STATE, SUPPORTING THE WORK OF THE STATE HIGHWAY PATROL, AND APPROPRIATING FUNDS. The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts: PART I. RETAIN AND ATTRACT MEMBERS OF THE STATE HIGHWAY PATROL PROVIDE COMPENSATION INCREASES TO MEMBERS OF THE STATE HIGHWAY PATROL SECTION 1.1.(a) Effective July 1, 2025, there is appropriated from the General Fund to the Reserve for Compensation Increases to provide pay raises for the State Highway Patrol & Law Enforcement Support Staff the sum of forty million four hundred eighty-two thousand four hundred eighty dollars ($40,482,480) in each year of the 2025-2027 fiscal biennium to establish the pay scales set forth in this section. SECTION 1.1.(b) Effective July 1, 2025, the law enforcement officers of the State Highway Patrol shall be paid based upon the following experience-based annual salary schedule: Years of Experience 2025-2027 Biennium 0 $56,000 1 $62,125 2 $68,250 3 $75,375 4 $80,500 5 $86,625 6 $92,750 7 $98,875 8+ $105,000 SECTION 1.1.(c) Effective July 1, 2025, sworn State Highway Patrol employees who are not subject to an experience-based annual salary schedule shall be paid at …
Sponsors
- Logan, Carolyn G. (D, 101) · primary sponsor
- Brown, Kanika (D, 71) · primary sponsor
- Pierce, Garland E. (D, 48) · primary sponsor
- Price, Renée A. (D, 50) · primary sponsor
- Baker, Amber M. (D, 72)
- Buansi, Allen (D, 56)
- Cervania, Maria (D, 41)
- Crawford, Sarah (D, 66)
- Greenfield, Julia (D, 100)
- Hawkins, Zack (D, 31)
- Jackson, Frances (D, 45)
- Jeffers, B. Ray (D, 2)
Latest actions
- : Re-ref to the Com on Appropriations, if favorable, Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House
- : Withdrawn From Com
- : Ref To Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House
- : Passed 1st Reading
- : Filed
Subjects: BUDGETING, EMERGENCY EQUIPMENT, EMPLOYMENT, COUNTIES, PUBLIC SAFETY DEPT., STORAGE TANKS, COMMERCE, SAFETY EQUIPMENT
Common questions
- What is H662?
- H662 is a bill in the North Carolina Legislature (2025-2026 Session): Support the State Highway Patrol.
- What does H662 do?
- In its own words: An act providing compensation increases to members of the state highway patrol, directing the state highway patrol to develop secondary employment policies, encouraging retired members of the state highway patrol to return to service with the state, supporting the work of the state highway patrol, and appropriating funds.
- What is the status of H662?
- In committee as of April 30, 2026. Latest action: Re-ref to the Com on Appropriations, if favorable, Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House (April 30, 2026).
- Who sponsored H662?
- Logan, Carolyn G. (D, 101), with 11 co-sponsors.
- Where is the official record for H662?
- On the North Carolina Legislature website: https://www.ncleg.gov/BillLookUp/2025/H662
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