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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Billy Graham/National Statuary Hall."
+description: "Billy Graham/National Statuary Hall."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
+legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
+session: "2015"
+identifier: "HB 540"
+citation: "North Carolina HB 540 (2015)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["MONUMENTS & MEMORIALS", "PRESENTED", "PUBLIC", "RATIFIED", "STATE SYMBOLS", "CHAPTERED", "GRAHAM", "WIILIAM \\\"BILLY\\\" FRANKLIN", "JR."]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Hager", "Jeter", "Schaffer"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 20
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2015-04-01"
+last_action: "2015-10-02"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/443320c2-435d-4090-a4c5-f27b82c66255"
+source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2015&BillID=H540&votesToView=all"
+source_hash: "004e7fa83cc807a1b4fd9fa180580e8196b8587afd8df8d3b360dc4a228d7f68"
+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 HB 540 (2015) — Billy Graham/National Statuary Hall.
+
+## 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/2015/Bills/House/PDF/H540v0.pdf)
+2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2015/Bills/House/PDF/H540v1.pdf)
+3. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2015/Bills/House/PDF/H540v2.pdf)
+4. **SL2015-269** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2015/Bills/House/PDF/H540v3.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Second Reading — **44–0** (pass) · upper
+- Second Reading — **71–28** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Hager — primary (person)
+- Jeter — primary (person)
+- Schaffer — primary (person)
+- Arp — cosponsor (person)
+- Bryan — cosponsor (person)
+- Burr — cosponsor (person)
+- Dobson — cosponsor (person)
+- Dollar — cosponsor (person)
+- Faircloth — cosponsor (person)
+- Ford — cosponsor (person)
+- Fraley — cosponsor (person)
+- Horn — cosponsor (person)
+- Jones — cosponsor (person)
+- Jordan — cosponsor (person)
+- McNeill — cosponsor (person)
+- Pittman — cosponsor (person)
+- Presnell — cosponsor (person)
+- Riddell — cosponsor (person)
+- Setzer — cosponsor (person)
+- Steinburg — cosponsor (person)
+- West — cosponsor (person)
+- Whitmire — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2015-10-02** Ch. SL 2015-269 `became-law`
+- **2015-10-02** Signed by Gov. 10/2/2015 `executive-signature`
+- **2015-09-22** Pres. To Gov. 9/22/2015 `executive-receipt`
+- **2015-09-21** Ratified
+- **2015-09-17** Ordered Enrolled
+- **2015-09-17** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
+- **2015-09-17** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
+- **2015-09-16** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2015-04-20** Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
+- **2015-04-20** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
+- **2015-04-20** Regular Message Received From House
+- **2015-04-16** Regular Message Sent To Senate
+- **2015-04-16** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
+- **2015-04-16** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
+- **2015-04-15** Placed On Cal For 04/16/2015
+- **2015-04-15** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
+- **2015-04-15** Withdrawn From Com
+- **2015-04-06** Ref To Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
+- **2015-04-06** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
+- **2015-04-01** Filed `introduction`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/443320c2-435d-4090-a4c5-f27b82c66255`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).
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