HB 272 North Carolina House · 2025-2026 Session

The Sergeant Mickey Hutchens Act.

House Bill 272, known as "The Sergeant Mickey Hutchens Act," allows certain law enforcement, probation/parole, and correctional officers in North Carolina to purchase additional retirement service credit. Officers who hold an advanced law enforcement or corrections certificate and have at least five years of membership service can buy up to four years of creditable service. This purchase applies to members of the Teachers' and State Employees' Retirement System or the Local Governmental Employees' Retirement System. To do so, they must pay a lump sum covering the full cost of the increased retirement system liability and an administrative fee, with the option for their employer to contribute to this cost.

Issues: ✓ Labor & Employment

Bill status passed 3 of 5 stages cleared

Introduction

Mar 2025

Committee Review

Apr 2025

House Passage

Apr 2025

Senate Passage

Governor

Introduced Mar 4, 2025 Last action Apr 16, 2025

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What changed between versions

Edition 2 → Edition 3 · 2 edits

MINOR

This bill was revised to add new actuarial assumptions for calculating retirement liability increases when law enforcement officers purchase additional service credit. The changes require the calculation to include anti-selection risk and a commensurate surcharge, which will likely increase the cost of purchasing additional retirement service credit.

Scope change

The bill's scope remains the same - it still applies to law enforcement, probation/parole, and correctional officers in North Carolina who hold advanced certificates. However, the financial implications for purchasing service credit have been modified.

FISCAL

Added requirement to assume anti-selection risk and a commensurate surcharge when calculating the cost of purchasing additional service credit for retirement.

Modified the actuarial assumptions used to calculate liability increases, adding specific risk factors that will increase the financial cost for members purchasing service credit.

Floor votes · House Apr 15, 2025

How they voted

113–0

Passed · 8 other

Total votes 121

Apr 15, 2025

D Democratic46

42 Yea 4

91% Yea

I Independent2

2 Yea

100% Yea

R Republican73

69 Yea 4

94% Yea

Vote distribution

All Yea All Nay Mixed No data

Full legislative history

Actions timeline

Total actions

Key actions

Committee

Apr 16, 2025

Committee

Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate

upper

Apr 15, 2025

Lower · Passed

Passed 3rd Reading

lower

Apr 10, 2025

Lower · Passed

Reptd Fav

lower

Apr 8, 2025

Committee

Re-ref Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House

lower

Apr 8, 2025

Lower · Passed

Reptd Fav Com Sub 2

lower

Mar 26, 2025

Committee

Re-ref Com On State and Local Government

lower

Mar 26, 2025

Lower · Passed

Reptd Fav Com Substitute

lower

Mar 5, 2025

Committee

Ref to the Com on Pensions and Retirement, if favorable, State and Local Government, if favorable, Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House

lower

Mar 4, 2025

Introduced

Filed

lower

3 primary · 48 co-sponsors