Identical to S 117, filed 2/21/17.

Enacts new GS 135-75.1B to prohibit the payment of any retirement benefits or allowances, except for a return of member contributions plus interest, to any judge who is impeached for reasons other than a physical or mental incapacity interfering with the performance of the judge's duties. Also prohibits paying retirement benefits or allowances, except for a return of member contributions plus interest, to any judge removed from office under GS 7A‑376(b), which allows the Supreme Court to remove any judge for willful misconduct in office, willful and persistent failure to perform the judge's duties, habitual intemperance, conviction of a crime involving moral turpitude, or conduct prejudicial to the administration of justice that brings the judicial office into disrepute.