---
type: "Bill"
title: "General Assembly Meet in Capitol."
description: "General Assembly Meet in Capitol."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2011"
identifier: "HJR 688"
citation: "North Carolina HJR 688 (2011)"
classification: ["joint resolution"]
subjects: ["GENERAL ASSEMBLY", "PUBLIC", "RATIFIED", "RESOLUTIONS", "JOINT", "CHAPTERED", "REP. T. MOORE"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 3
action_count: 9
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2011-04-06"
last_action: "2011-04-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4f9ccbe1-4bdc-4922-bd61-86f9d1e31549"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2011&BillID=H688&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "1b0d8211d5cc5f64983e31337ad936b8a45a0ce250c08aedd6de0046e2db69e3"
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 688 (2011) — General Assembly Meet in Capitol.

## 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/2011/Bills/House/PDF/H688v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/House/PDF/H688v1.pdf)
3. **Res 2011-5** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/House/PDF/H688v2.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **50–0** (pass) · upper
- Second Reading — **115–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Bradley — cosponsor (person)
- Carney — cosponsor (person)
- Faircloth — cosponsor (person)
- Hastings — cosponsor (person)
- Hilton — cosponsor (person)
- Ingle — cosponsor (person)
- Jones — cosponsor (person)
- Jordan — cosponsor (person)
- Martin — cosponsor (person)
- McGee — cosponsor (person)
- Moffitt — cosponsor (person)
- Murry — cosponsor (person)
- Starnes — cosponsor (person)
- T. Moore — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2011-04-07** Ch. Res 2011-5 `became-law`
- **2011-04-07** Ratified
- **2011-04-06** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2011-04-06** Placed On Cal For 4/6/2011
- **2011-04-06** Rec From House
- **2011-04-06** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2011-04-06** Rules Suspended
- **2011-04-06** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2011-04-06** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4f9ccbe1-4bdc-4922-bd61-86f9d1e31549`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).