---
type: "Bill"
title: "Honor Melanie Wade Goodwin, Former Member."
description: "Honor Melanie Wade Goodwin, Former Member."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HJR 971"
citation: "North Carolina HJR 971 (2021)"
classification: ["joint resolution"]
subjects: ["AWARDS", "CHAPTERED", "GENERAL ASSEMBLY", "GOODWIN", "HONORS & MEMORIALS", "JOINT", "MELANIE WADE", "RATIFIED", "RESOLUTIONS"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Carney", "Harrison", "Insko"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 16
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2021-06-24"
last_action: "2021-07-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9d8cf398-9d9d-4ebd-a266-1e8ffc859378"
source_url: "https://www.ncleg.gov/BillLookUp/2021/H971"
source_hash: "606899f004a3ac2a78faf71531844d6b0a65a0a7cfed570433c53368d3066324"
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 971 (2021) — Honor Melanie Wade Goodwin, Former Member.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Filed** (filed) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2021/Bills/House/PDF/H971v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2021/Bills/House/PDF/H971v1.pdf)
3. **Resolution 2021-8** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2021/Bills/House/PDF/H971v2.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Carney — primary (person)
- Harrison — primary (person)
- Insko — primary (person)
- A. Baker — cosponsor (person)
- A. Jones — cosponsor (person)
- Adcock — cosponsor (person)
- Ager — cosponsor (person)
- Alexander — cosponsor (person)
- Alston — cosponsor (person)
- Autry — cosponsor (person)
- Ball — cosponsor (person)
- Belk — cosponsor (person)
- Blackwell — cosponsor (person)
- Boles — cosponsor (person)
- Brisson — cosponsor (person)
- Brockman — cosponsor (person)
- Brown — cosponsor (person)
- Bumgardner — cosponsor (person)
- Butler — cosponsor (person)
- Clampitt — cosponsor (person)
- Clemmons — cosponsor (person)
- Cleveland — cosponsor (person)
- Cooper-Suggs — cosponsor (person)
- Dahle — cosponsor (person)
- Farkas — cosponsor (person)
- Fisher — cosponsor (person)
- Gailliard — cosponsor (person)
- Garrison — cosponsor (person)
- Gill — cosponsor (person)
- Gillespie — cosponsor (person)
- Greene — cosponsor (person)
- Harris — cosponsor (person)
- Hawkins — cosponsor (person)
- Howard — cosponsor (person)
- Humphrey — cosponsor (person)
- Hunt — cosponsor (person)
- Hunter — cosponsor (person)
- Hurtado — cosponsor (person)
- John — cosponsor (person)
- K. Baker — cosponsor (person)
- Kidwell — cosponsor (person)
- Lofton — cosponsor (person)
- Logan — cosponsor (person)
- Lucas — cosponsor (person)
- Martin — cosponsor (person)
- McElraft — cosponsor (person)
- McNeely — cosponsor (person)
- Meyer — cosponsor (person)
- Moore — cosponsor (person)
- Morey — cosponsor (person)
- Moss — cosponsor (person)
- Quick — cosponsor (person)
- Reives — cosponsor (person)
- Richardson — cosponsor (person)
- Riddell — cosponsor (person)
- Setzer — cosponsor (person)
- Stevens — cosponsor (person)
- Szoka — cosponsor (person)
- Terry — cosponsor (person)
- Turner — cosponsor (person)
- von Haefen — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-07-22** Ch. Res 2021-8 `became-law`
- **2021-07-22** Ratified
- **2021-07-21** Ordered Enrolled
- **2021-07-21** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-07-21** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2021-07-21** Placed on Today's Calendar
- **2021-07-21** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2021-07-21** Special Message Received From House
- **2021-07-21** Special Message Sent To Senate
- **2021-07-21** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-07-21** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2021-07-20** Placed On Cal For 07/21/2021
- **2021-07-20** Withdrawn From Com
- **2021-06-29** Ref To Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2021-06-29** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2021-06-24** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9d8cf398-9d9d-4ebd-a266-1e8ffc859378`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).