---
type: "Bill"
title: "Herman Harley \"Bull\" West."
description: "Herman Harley \"Bull\" West."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2001"
identifier: "SJR 770"
citation: "North Carolina SJR 770 (2001)"
classification: ["joint resolution"]
subjects: ["AWARDS", "HONORS & MEMORIALS", "GENERAL ASSEMBLY", "MEMBERSHIP", "RATIFIED", "RESOLUTIONS", "JOINT", "SEN. CARPENTER", "CHEROKEE COUNTY", "WEST", "HERMAN HARLEY \\\"BULL\\", "CHAPTERED"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 2
action_count: 10
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2001-03-29"
last_action: "2001-05-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0821183d-6be9-4fb0-95d3-b74f0036fb2b"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2001&BillID=S770&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "aa7d1964097868ba43d2b683eedfc06429e431cc28e4bacf93a77204680d6cb9"
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 770 (2001) — Herman Harley "Bull" West.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2001/Bills/Senate/PDF/S770v1.pdf)
2. **Res 2001-12** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2001/Bills/Senate/PDF/S770v2.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- Second Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Albertson — cosponsor (person)
- Allran — cosponsor (person)
- Ballance — cosponsor (person)
- Ballantine — cosponsor (person)
- Basnight — cosponsor (person)
- Berger — cosponsor (person)
- Bingham — cosponsor (person)
- Carpenter — cosponsor (person)
- Carrington — cosponsor (person)
- Carter — cosponsor (person)
- Cunningham — cosponsor (person)
- Dalton — cosponsor (person)
- Forrester — cosponsor (person)
- Foxx — cosponsor (person)
- Garrou — cosponsor (person)
- Garwood — cosponsor (person)
- Gulley — cosponsor (person)
- Hagan — cosponsor (person)
- Harris — cosponsor (person)
- Hartsell — cosponsor (person)
- Horton — cosponsor (person)
- Hoyle — cosponsor (person)
- Lee — cosponsor (person)
- Martin of Guilford — cosponsor (person)
- Metcalf — cosponsor (person)
- Miller, B — cosponsor (person)
- Moore, K — cosponsor (person)
- Plyler — cosponsor (person)
- Purcell — cosponsor (person)
- Rand — cosponsor (person)
- Robinson — cosponsor (person)
- Rucho — cosponsor (person)
- Shaw of Cumberland — cosponsor (person)
- Shaw of Guilford — cosponsor (person)
- Soles — cosponsor (person)
- Swindell — cosponsor (person)
- Thomas — cosponsor (person)
- Warren — cosponsor (person)
- Webster — cosponsor (person)
- Weinstein — cosponsor (person)
- Wellons — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2001-05-16** Ch. Res 2001-12 `became-law`
- **2001-05-16** Ratified
- **2001-05-14** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2001-05-14** Cal For Immediate Consid
- **2001-05-14** Rec From Senate
- **2001-05-14** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2001-05-14** Cal For Immediate Consid
- **2001-05-14** Withdrawn From Comm
- **2001-04-02** Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2001-03-29** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0821183d-6be9-4fb0-95d3-b74f0036fb2b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).