---
type: "Bill"
title: "Billy Graham/National Statuary Hall."
description: "Billy Graham/National Statuary Hall."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2015"
identifier: "HB 540"
citation: "North Carolina HB 540 (2015)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["MONUMENTS & MEMORIALS", "PRESENTED", "PUBLIC", "RATIFIED", "STATE SYMBOLS", "CHAPTERED", "GRAHAM", "WIILIAM \\\"BILLY\\\" FRANKLIN", "JR."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hager", "Jeter", "Schaffer"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2015-04-01"
last_action: "2015-10-02"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/443320c2-435d-4090-a4c5-f27b82c66255"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2015&BillID=H540&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "004e7fa83cc807a1b4fd9fa180580e8196b8587afd8df8d3b360dc4a228d7f68"
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 540 (2015) — Billy Graham/National Statuary Hall.

## 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/H540v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2015/Bills/House/PDF/H540v1.pdf)
3. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2015/Bills/House/PDF/H540v2.pdf)
4. **SL2015-269** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2015/Bills/House/PDF/H540v3.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **44–0** (pass) · upper
- Second Reading — **71–28** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Hager — primary (person)
- Jeter — primary (person)
- Schaffer — primary (person)
- Arp — cosponsor (person)
- Bryan — cosponsor (person)
- Burr — cosponsor (person)
- Dobson — cosponsor (person)
- Dollar — cosponsor (person)
- Faircloth — cosponsor (person)
- Ford — cosponsor (person)
- Fraley — cosponsor (person)
- Horn — cosponsor (person)
- Jones — cosponsor (person)
- Jordan — cosponsor (person)
- McNeill — cosponsor (person)
- Pittman — cosponsor (person)
- Presnell — cosponsor (person)
- Riddell — cosponsor (person)
- Setzer — cosponsor (person)
- Steinburg — cosponsor (person)
- West — cosponsor (person)
- Whitmire — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2015-10-02** Ch. SL 2015-269 `became-law`
- **2015-10-02** Signed by Gov. 10/2/2015 `executive-signature`
- **2015-09-22** Pres. To Gov. 9/22/2015 `executive-receipt`
- **2015-09-21** Ratified
- **2015-09-17** Ordered Enrolled
- **2015-09-17** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2015-09-17** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2015-09-16** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **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`
- **2015-04-15** Placed On Cal For 04/16/2015
- **2015-04-15** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2015-04-15** Withdrawn From Com
- **2015-04-06** Ref To Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2015-04-06** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2015-04-01** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/443320c2-435d-4090-a4c5-f27b82c66255`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).