---
type: "Bill"
title: "Honor Benny Parsons."
description: "Honor Benny Parsons."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2007"
identifier: "HJR 161"
citation: "North Carolina HJR 161 (2007)"
classification: ["joint resolution"]
subjects: ["BOARDS", "ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY", "GENERAL ASSEMBLY", "HEALTH SERVICES", "LICENSING & CERTIFICATION", "OCCUPATIONS", "RACING", "RATIFIED", "RESOLUTIONS", "JOINT", "SPORTS", "REP. WOMBLE", "CHAPTERED", "REP. PARMON", "REP. RAY", "REP. GOODWIN", "PARSONS", "BENNY"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Parmon", "Ray", "Walker"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 12
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2007-02-12"
last_action: "2008-07-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ad5e2a41-5bfd-4322-ba79-e5ee35d34a2c"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2007&BillID=H161&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "cd635ffb3686e801333a4fc8e59eff238641e15a640410d4f25ef166d7bb4e4e"
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 161 (2007) — Honor Benny Parsons.

## 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/House/PDF/H161v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/House/PDF/H161v1.pdf)
3. **Res 2008-26** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/House/PDF/H161v2.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **117–0** (pass) · lower
- Second Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Parmon — primary (person)
- Ray — primary (person)
- Walker — primary (person)
- Barnhart — cosponsor (person)
- Black — cosponsor (person)
- Carney — cosponsor (person)
- Coates — cosponsor (person)
- Folwell — cosponsor (person)
- Frye — cosponsor (person)
- Goforth — cosponsor (person)
- Goodwin — cosponsor (person)
- Hilton — cosponsor (person)
- Howard — cosponsor (person)
- Justus — cosponsor (person)
- Killian — cosponsor (person)
- McGee — cosponsor (person)
- Moore — cosponsor (person)
- Neumann — cosponsor (person)
- Samuelson — cosponsor (person)
- Saunders — cosponsor (person)
- Setzer — cosponsor (person)
- Wilkins — cosponsor (person)
- Williams — cosponsor (person)
- Wray — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2008-07-10** Ch. Res 2008-26 `became-law`
- **2008-07-10** Ratified
- **2008-07-09** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2008-07-09** Placed On Cal For 7/9/2008
- **2008-07-09** Rec From House
- **2008-07-09** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2008-07-08** Placed On Cal For 7/9/2008
- **2008-07-08** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2008-07-08** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2007-02-13** Ref To Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2007-02-13** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2007-02-12** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ad5e2a41-5bfd-4322-ba79-e5ee35d34a2c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).