North Carolina legislation · 2025-2026 Session
North Carolina S753: NC Highway Patrol Retention Act.
Status: Introduced, March 26, 2025
What the bill says
An act appropriating funds to provide compensation increases to members of the state highway patrol.
From the introduced text:
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT APPROPRIATING FUNDS TO PROVIDE COMPENSATION INCREASES TO MEMBERS OF THE STATE HIGHWAY PATROL. The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts: SECTION 1. 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 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 act. SECTION 2. 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 3. Effective July 1, 2025, Sworn State Highway Patrol employees who are not subject to an experience-based annual salary schedule shall be paid at the following rates by rank: Rank 2025-2027 Biennium Sergeant $120,750 First Sergeant $132,825 Lieutenant $146,108 Captain $160,718 Major $176,790 Lieutenant Colonel $194,469 Deputy Commander $204,193 Colonel $224,612 SECTION 4. Unless otherwise provided, this act is effective when it becomes law. *DRS45368-LRa-75*
Sponsors
- Bradley, Woodson (D, 42) · primary sponsor
- Grafstein, Lisa (D, 13) · primary sponsor
- Everitt, Terence (D, 18) · primary sponsor
- Garrett, Michael (D, 27)
- Waddell, Joyce (D, 40)
Latest actions
- : Re-ref Com On Appropriations/Base Budget
- : Withdrawn From Com
- : Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate
- : Passed 1st Reading
- : Filed
Subjects: BUDGETING, GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES, EMPLOYMENT, PUBLIC SAFETY DEPT., STATE EMPLOYEES, PUBLIC, PERSONNEL, LAW ENFORCEMENT
Common questions
- What is S753?
- S753 is a bill in the North Carolina Legislature (2025-2026 Session): NC Highway Patrol Retention Act.
- What does S753 do?
- In its own words: An act appropriating funds to provide compensation increases to members of the state highway patrol.
- What is the status of S753?
- Introduced as of March 26, 2025. Latest action: Re-ref Com On Appropriations/Base Budget (March 26, 2025).
- Who sponsored S753?
- Bradley, Woodson (D, 42), with 4 co-sponsors.
- Where is the official record for S753?
- On the North Carolina Legislature website: https://www.ncleg.gov/BillLookUp/2025/S753
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