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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Apologize for Slavery."
+description: "Apologize for Slavery."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
+legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
+session: "2007"
+identifier: "SJR 1557"
+citation: "North Carolina SJR 1557 (2007)"
+classification: ["joint resolution"]
+subjects: ["DISCRIMINATION", "GENERAL ASSEMBLY", "MINORITIES", "RATIFIED", "RESOLUTIONS", "JOINT", "SEN. RAND", "CHAPTERED"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: []
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 13
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2007-04-03"
+last_action: "2007-04-12"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f3d29a72-f4ca-4944-a6e1-dc0d57ecec16"
+source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2007&BillID=S1557&votesToView=all"
+source_hash: "6bb0b1398a157c3218b7f7a555703008c3ee362fee200654fb2595b261289767"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-nc"]
+---
+
+# North Carolina SJR 1557 (2007) — Apologize for Slavery.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Filed** (filed) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/Senate/PDF/S1557v0.pdf)
+2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/Senate/PDF/S1557v1.pdf)
+3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/Senate/PDF/S1557v2.pdf)
+4. **Res 2007-21** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/Senate/PDF/S1557v3.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Second Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper
+- Second Reading — **117–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Albertson — cosponsor (person)
+- Apodaca — cosponsor (person)
+- Atwater — cosponsor (person)
+- Basnight — cosponsor (person)
+- Berger of Franklin — cosponsor (person)
+- Berger of Rockingham — cosponsor (person)
+- Bingham — cosponsor (person)
+- Boseman — cosponsor (person)
+- Brown — cosponsor (person)
+- Brunstetter — cosponsor (person)
+- Clodfelter — cosponsor (person)
+- Cowell — cosponsor (person)
+- Dalton — cosponsor (person)
+- Dannelly — cosponsor (person)
+- Dorsett — cosponsor (person)
+- Foriest — cosponsor (person)
+- Garrou — cosponsor (person)
+- Goss — cosponsor (person)
+- Graham — cosponsor (person)
+- Hagan — cosponsor (person)
+- Jenkins — cosponsor (person)
+- Jones — cosponsor (person)
+- Kerr — cosponsor (person)
+- Kinnaird — cosponsor (person)
+- Malone — cosponsor (person)
+- Nesbitt — cosponsor (person)
+- Preston — cosponsor (person)
+- Purcell — cosponsor (person)
+- Queen — cosponsor (person)
+- Rand — cosponsor (person)
+- Shaw — cosponsor (person)
+- Smith — cosponsor (person)
+- Snow — cosponsor (person)
+- Soles — cosponsor (person)
+- Stevens — cosponsor (person)
+- Swindell — cosponsor (person)
+- Tillman — cosponsor (person)
+- Weinstein — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2007-04-12** Ch. Res 2007-21 `became-law`
+- **2007-04-12** Ratified
+- **2007-04-11** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
+- **2007-04-10** Placed On Cal For 4/11/2007
+- **2007-04-10** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
+- **2007-04-10** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2007-04-09** Ref To Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
+- **2007-04-09** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
+- **2007-04-05** Engrossed
+- **2007-04-05** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
+- **2007-04-05** Amend Adopted 1 `amendment-passage`
+- **2007-04-05** Placed On Cal For 4/5/2007
+- **2007-04-03** Filed `introduction`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f3d29a72-f4ca-4944-a6e1-dc0d57ecec16`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).
+