---
type: "Bill"
title: "Honor Tom Joyner."
description: "Honor Tom Joyner."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2003"
identifier: "HJR 59"
citation: "North Carolina HJR 59 (2003)"
classification: ["joint resolution"]
subjects: ["AWARDS", "HONORS & MEMORIALS", "GENERAL ASSEMBLY", "MINORITIES", "RATIFIED", "RESOLUTIONS", "JOINT", "REP. ADAMS", "REP. BELL", "REP. BONNER", "REP. CUNNINGHAM", "REP. EARLE", "REP. HALL", "REP. HUNTER", "REP. LUCAS", "REP. MCALLISTER", "REP. MICHAUX", "REP. MILLER", "REP. WAINWRIGHT", "REP. WOMBLE", "REP. WRIGHT", "CHAPTERED", "REP. B. ALLEN", "REP. FARMER-BUTTERFIELD", "REP. JONES", "REP. PARMON", "WASHINGTON", "BOOKER T.", "CARVER", "GEORGE WASHINGTON", "JOYNER", "TOM"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 4
action_count: 11
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2003-02-20"
last_action: "2003-02-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/167772c4-0fba-4d95-acb2-3a491fa63d90"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2003&BillID=H59&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "80b548a507f1633df98ba263e4e48da095b181b3a2c835013aaec2748e5003c2"
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 HJR 59 (2003) — Honor Tom Joyner.

## 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/2003/Bills/House/PDF/H59v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/House/PDF/H59v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/House/PDF/H59v2.pdf)
4. **Res 2003-3** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/House/PDF/H59v3.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **42–0** (pass) · upper
- Second Reading — **110–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Adams — cosponsor (person)
- Alexander — cosponsor (person)
- B. Allen — cosponsor (person)
- Bell — cosponsor (person)
- Bonner — cosponsor (person)
- Cunningham — cosponsor (person)
- Earle — cosponsor (person)
- Farmer-Butterfield — cosponsor (person)
- Hall — cosponsor (person)
- Hunter — cosponsor (person)
- Insko — cosponsor (person)
- Jones — cosponsor (person)
- Lucas — cosponsor (person)
- Luebke — cosponsor (person)
- McAllister — cosponsor (person)
- Michaux — cosponsor (person)
- Miller — cosponsor (person)
- Parmon — cosponsor (person)
- Wainwright — cosponsor (person)
- Warner — cosponsor (person)
- Weiss — cosponsor (person)
- Womble — cosponsor (person)
- Wright — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2003-02-27** Ch. Res 2003-3 `became-law`
- **2003-02-27** Ratified
- **2003-02-27** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2003-02-27** Placed On Cal For 2/27/2003
- **2003-02-27** Rec From House
- **2003-02-26** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2003-02-26** Placed On Cal For 2/26/2003
- **2003-02-26** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2003-02-26** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2003-02-24** Ref To Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2003-02-20** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/167772c4-0fba-4d95-acb2-3a491fa63d90`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).