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S753 • 2025

NC Highway Patrol Retention Act.

NC Highway Patrol Retention Act.

Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor
Bradley, Grafstein, Everitt, Garrett, Waddell
Last action
2025-03-26
Official status
Re-ref Com On Appropriations/Base Budget
Effective date
2025-07-01

Plain English Breakdown

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NC Highway Patrol Retention Act.

NC Highway Patrol Retention Act.

What This Bill Does

  • NC Highway Patrol Retention Act.

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Bill History

  1. 2025-03-26 Senate

    Re-ref Com On Appropriations/Base Budget

  2. 2025-03-26 Senate

    Withdrawn From Com

  3. 2025-03-26 Senate

    Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate

  4. 2025-03-26 Senate

    Passed 1st Reading

  5. 2025-03-25 Senate

    Filed

Official Summary Text

NC Highway Patrol Retention Act.

Current Bill Text

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GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2025
S 1
SENATE BILL 753

Short Title: NC Highway Patrol Retention Act. (Public)
Sponsors: Senators Bradley, Grafstein, and Everitt (Primary Sponsors).
Referred to: Rules and Operations of the Senate
March 26, 2025
*S753-v-1*
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1
AN ACT APPROPRIATING FUNDS TO PROVIDE CO MPENSATION INCREASES TO 2
MEMBERS OF THE STATE HIGHWAY PATROL. 3
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts: 4
SECTION 1. Effective July 1, 2025, there is appropriated from the General Fund to 5
the Reserve for Compensation Increases to provide pay raises for the State Highway Patrol the 6
sum of forty million four hundred eighty-two thousand four hundred eighty dollars ($40,482,480) 7
in each year of the 2025-2027 fiscal biennium to establish the pay scales set forth in this act. 8
SECTION 2. Effective July 1, 2025, the law enforcement officers of the State 9
Highway Patrol shall be paid based upon the following experience-based annual salary schedule: 10
Years of Experience 2025-2027 Biennium 11
0 $56,000 12
1 $62,125 13
2 $68,250 14
3 $75,375 15
4 $80,500 16
5 $86,625 17
6 $92,750 18
7 $98,875 19
8+ $105,000 20
SECTION 3. Effective July 1, 2025, Sworn State Highway Patrol employees who 21
are not subject to an experience-based annual salary schedule shall be paid at the following rates 22
by rank: 23
Rank 2025-2027 Biennium 24
Sergeant $120,750 25
First Sergeant $132,825 26
Lieutenant $146,108 27
Captain $160,718 28
Major $176,790 29
Lieutenant Colonel $194,469 30
Deputy Commander $204,193 31
Colonel $224,612 32
SECTION 4. Unless otherwise provided, this act is effective when it becomes law. 33