---
type: "Bill"
title: "Weekend Burials/State Veterans Cemeteries."
description: "Weekend Burials/State Veterans Cemeteries."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2015"
identifier: "HB 340"
citation: "North Carolina HB 340 (2015)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ARMED FORCES", "CEMETERIES", "DEATH & DYING", "FUNERAL SERVICES", "PERSONNEL", "PRESENTED", "PUBLIC", "RATIFIED", "VETERANS", "CHAPTERED"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Boles", "Cleveland", "Shepard"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 23
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2015-03-24"
last_action: "2015-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3cb2a0ce-4eb9-474d-8562-4f4e092fcb5d"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2015&BillID=H340&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "5e6ddf73b8ec3b7524673111d311ab1e79c4836e55a28f412355f84659083494"
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 HB 340 (2015) — Weekend Burials/State Veterans Cemeteries.

## 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/2015/Bills/House/PDF/H340v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2015/Bills/House/PDF/H340v1.pdf)
3. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2015/Bills/House/PDF/H340v2.pdf)
4. **SL2015-69** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2015/Bills/House/PDF/H340v3.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **48–0** (pass) · upper
- Second Reading — **114–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Boles — primary (person)
- Cleveland — primary (person)
- Shepard — primary (person)
- Alexander — cosponsor (person)
- B. Richardson — cosponsor (person)
- B. Turner — cosponsor (person)
- Bradford — cosponsor (person)
- Brawley — cosponsor (person)
- Cunningham — cosponsor (person)
- Faircloth — cosponsor (person)
- Farmer-Butterfield — cosponsor (person)
- Fisher — cosponsor (person)
- Floyd — cosponsor (person)
- Fraley — cosponsor (person)
- G. Graham — cosponsor (person)
- Hamilton — cosponsor (person)
- Harrison — cosponsor (person)
- Holley — cosponsor (person)
- Hunter — cosponsor (person)
- Hurley — cosponsor (person)
- Langdon — cosponsor (person)
- Lucas — cosponsor (person)
- McNeill — cosponsor (person)
- Pittman — cosponsor (person)
- R. Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Szoka — cosponsor (person)
- Whitmire — cosponsor (person)
- Wray — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2015-06-11** Ch. SL 2015-69 `became-law`
- **2015-06-11** Signed by Gov. 6/11/2015 `executive-signature`
- **2015-06-04** Pres. To Gov. 6/4/2015 `executive-receipt`
- **2015-06-03** Ratified
- **2015-06-02** Ordered Enrolled
- **2015-06-02** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2015-06-02** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2015-06-02** Placed on Today's Calendar
- **2015-06-02** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2015-05-11** Re-ref Com On State and Local Government `referral-committee`
- **2015-05-11** Withdrawn From Com
- **2015-04-20** Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2015-04-20** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2015-04-20** Regular Message Received From House
- **2015-04-16** Regular Message Sent To Senate
- **2015-04-16** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2015-04-16** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2015-04-16** Added to Calendar
- **2015-04-16** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2015-04-16** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2015-03-25** Ref To Com On Homeland Security, Military, and Veterans Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2015-03-25** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2015-03-24** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3cb2a0ce-4eb9-474d-8562-4f4e092fcb5d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).