---
type: "Bill"
title: "Honor William Hiatt."
description: "Honor William Hiatt."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2005"
identifier: "HJR 1609"
citation: "North Carolina HJR 1609 (2005)"
classification: ["joint resolution"]
subjects: ["AWARDS", "HONORS & MEMORIALS", "GENERAL ASSEMBLY", "RATIFIED", "RESOLUTIONS", "JOINT", "CHAPTERED", "REP. PATE", "REP. WILSON", "HIATT", "WILLIAM SETH"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Pate"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 12
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2005-05-05"
last_action: "2005-06-02"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bfc265ad-80a0-436f-8f81-c686e90aa387"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2005&BillID=H1609&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "ed6f2288f26e942a08967fe4bb566a97329530e8de799bf4feaa222fb524b6f6"
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 1609 (2005) — Honor William Hiatt.

## 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/2005/Bills/House/PDF/H1609v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2005/Bills/House/PDF/H1609v1.pdf)
3. **Res 2005-35** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2005/Bills/House/PDF/H1609v2.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **50–0** (pass) · upper
- Second Reading — **114–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Pate — primary (person)
- Allred — cosponsor (person)
- Brubaker — cosponsor (person)
- Capps — cosponsor (person)
- Culp — cosponsor (person)
- Daughtry — cosponsor (person)
- Dockham — cosponsor (person)
- Eddins — cosponsor (person)
- Grady — cosponsor (person)
- Holmes — cosponsor (person)
- Howard — cosponsor (person)
- Kiser — cosponsor (person)
- Luebke — cosponsor (person)
- McMahan — cosponsor (person)
- Preston — cosponsor (person)
- Rayfield — cosponsor (person)
- Sherrill — cosponsor (person)
- Stam — cosponsor (person)
- Starnes — cosponsor (person)
- Walker — cosponsor (person)
- Wilson — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2005-06-02** Ch. Res 2005-35 `became-law`
- **2005-06-02** Ratified
- **2005-06-01** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2005-05-31** Placed On Cal For 6/1/2005
- **2005-05-31** Withdrawn From Comm
- **2005-05-24** Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2005-05-24** Rec From House
- **2005-05-23** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2005-05-19** Placed On Cal For 5/23/2005
- **2005-05-19** Withdrawn From Comm
- **2005-05-09** Ref To Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2005-05-05** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/bfc265ad-80a0-436f-8f81-c686e90aa387`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).