---
type: "Bill"
title: "Honor Harlan Boyles."
description: "Honor Harlan Boyles."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2003"
identifier: "SJR 171"
citation: "North Carolina SJR 171 (2003)"
classification: ["joint resolution"]
subjects: ["AWARDS", "HONORS & MEMORIALS", "COUNCIL OF STATE", "GENERAL ASSEMBLY", "PUBLIC OFFICIALS", "RATIFIED", "RESOLUTIONS", "JOINT", "STATE TREASURER", "SEN. RAND", "CHAPTERED", "BOYLES", "HARLAN E."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 3
action_count: 10
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2003-02-24"
last_action: "2003-03-17"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ef83a976-8eb4-476d-a37f-5302b1f8f9d7"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2003&BillID=S171&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "db5b0f28d4466813408e296f8361dc7f1b6f814926cf8f999eb7494ad1ebd12a"
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 171 (2003) — Honor Harlan Boyles.

## 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/Senate/PDF/S171v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/Senate/PDF/S171v1.pdf)
3. **Res 2003-5** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/Senate/PDF/S171v2.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **104–0** (pass) · lower
- Second Reading — **50–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Albertson — cosponsor (person)
- Basnight — cosponsor (person)
- Berger — cosponsor (person)
- Bingham — cosponsor (person)
- Carpenter — cosponsor (person)
- Carrington — cosponsor (person)
- Clodfelter — cosponsor (person)
- Dalton — cosponsor (person)
- Dannelly — cosponsor (person)
- Dorsett — cosponsor (person)
- Forrester — cosponsor (person)
- Foxx — cosponsor (person)
- Garrou — cosponsor (person)
- Garwood — cosponsor (person)
- Hagan — cosponsor (person)
- Holloman — cosponsor (person)
- Horton — cosponsor (person)
- Jenkins — cosponsor (person)
- Kerr — cosponsor (person)
- Lucas — cosponsor (person)
- Malone — cosponsor (person)
- Metcalf — cosponsor (person)
- Moore — cosponsor (person)
- Purcell — cosponsor (person)
- Rand — cosponsor (person)
- Reeves — cosponsor (person)
- Rucho — cosponsor (person)
- Shubert — cosponsor (person)
- Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Soles — cosponsor (person)
- Stevens — cosponsor (person)
- Swindell — cosponsor (person)
- Thomas — cosponsor (person)
- Weinstein — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2003-03-17** Ch. Res 2003-5 `became-law`
- **2003-03-17** Ratified
- **2003-03-13** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2003-03-12** Placed On Cal For 3/13/2003
- **2003-03-12** Rec From Senate
- **2003-03-12** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2003-03-10** Placed On Cal For 3/12/2003
- **2003-03-10** Withdrawn From Comm
- **2003-02-25** Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2003-02-24** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ef83a976-8eb4-476d-a37f-5302b1f8f9d7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).