North Carolina legislation · 2025-2026 Session
North Carolina H50: LEO Special Separation Allowance Options.
Status: Signed into law, June 13, 2025
What the bill says
An act providing an additional special separation allowance option for state and local law enforcement officers with at least thirty years of creditable service.
From the enrolled text:
AN ACT PROVIDING AN ADDITIONAL SPECIAL SEPARATION ALLOWANCE OPTION FOR STATE AND LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS WITH AT LEAST THIRTY YEARS OF CREDITABLE SERVICE. The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts: SECTION 1. G.S. 143-166.41 reads as rewritten: "§ 143-166.41. Special separation allowance.allowance options for State law enforcement officers. (a) Annual Special Separation Allowance. - Notwithstanding any other provision of law, every sworn law-enforcement officer as defined by G.S. 135-1(11c) or G.S. 143-166.30(a)(4) employed by a State department, agency, or institution who qualifies under this section shall receive, receive an annual special separation allowance beginning in the month in which he the officer retires on a basic service retirement under the provisions of G.S. 135-5(a), an annual separation allowance equal to eighty-five hundredths percent (0.85%) of the annual equivalent of the base rate of compensation most recently applicable to him for each year of creditable service. G.S. 135-5(a). The allowance shall be paid in equal installments on the payroll frequency used by the employer. To qualify for the allowance the officer shall: (1) Have (i) completed 30 or more years of creditable service or, (ii) have attained 55 years of age and completed five or more years of creditable service; and (2) Not have attained 62 years of age; and (3) Have completed at least five years of continuous service …
Sponsors
- Pyrtle, A. Reece (R, 65) · primary sponsor
- Miller, Charles W. (R, 19) · primary sponsor
- Chesser, Allen (R, 25) · primary sponsor
- Cotham (R) · primary sponsor
- Almond, Jonathan L. (R, 73)
- Baker, Amber M. (D, 72)
- Belk, Mary (D, 88)
- Biggs, Brian (R, 70)
- Branson, Jerry (R, 59)
- Brown, Kanika (D, 71)
- Carver, Todd (R, 95)
- Cohn, Bryan (D, 32)
Latest actions
- : Ch. SL 2025-8
- : Signed by Gov. 6/13/2025
- : Pres. To Gov. 6/12/2025
- : Ratified
- : Ordered Enrolled
- : Passed 3rd Reading
- : Passed 2nd Reading
- : Reptd Fav
- : Re-ref Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate
- : Reptd Fav
Votes
- LEO Special Separation Allowance Options. Second Reading (June 10, 2025): 43 yea, 0 nay, passed
- Law Enforcement Officers Special Separation Allowance Options. Second Reading (April 1, 2025): 117 yea, 0 nay, passed
Subjects: RATIFIED, PUBLIC, RETIREMENT, PRESENTED, PERSONNEL, LAW ENFORCEMENT, PAROLE & PROBATION, LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS
Common questions
- What is H50?
- H50 is a bill in the North Carolina Legislature (2025-2026 Session): LEO Special Separation Allowance Options.
- What does H50 do?
- In its own words: An act providing an additional special separation allowance option for state and local law enforcement officers with at least thirty years of creditable service.
- What is the status of H50?
- Signed into law as of June 13, 2025. Latest action: Ch. SL 2025-8 (June 13, 2025).
- Who sponsored H50?
- Pyrtle, A. Reece (R, 65), with 11 co-sponsors.
- Where is the official record for H50?
- On the North Carolina Legislature website: https://www.ncleg.gov/BillLookUp/2025/H50
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