A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to provide that a former sworn law enforcement officer who has fifteen or more aggregate years of part‑time or AUXILIARY law enforcement service may be exempt from the firearms safety and training course requirement for a concealed handgun permit if he or she was a qualified sworn law enforcement officer immediately before retiring and has been retired as a sworn law enforcement officer two years or less from the date of the permit application.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  G.S. 14‑415.10(4) reads as rewritten:
"(4)	Qualified former sworn law enforcement officer. – An individual who retired from service as a law enforcement officer with a local, State, campus police, or company police agency in North Carolina, other than for reasons of mental disability, who has been retired as a sworn law enforcement officer two years or less from the date of the permit application, and who satisfies all of the following:
a.	Immediately before retirement, the individual was a qualified law enforcement officer with a local, State, or company police agency in North Carolina.
b.	The individual has a nonforfeitable right to benefits under the retirement plan of the local, State, or company police agency as a law enforcement officer; or has 20 or more aggregate years of law enforcement service and has retired from a company police agency that does not have a retirement plan; or has 15 or more aggregate years of part‑time or auxiliary law enforcement service.c.	The individual is not prohibited by State or federal law from receiving a firearm."
SECTION 2.  This act is effective when it becomes law.