---
type: "Bill"
title: "Honor Town of Newton."
description: "Honor Town of Newton."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2005"
identifier: "HJR 852"
citation: "North Carolina HJR 852 (2005)"
classification: ["joint resolution"]
subjects: ["AWARDS", "HONORS & MEMORIALS", "COUNTIES", "GENERAL ASSEMBLY", "MUNICIPALITIES", "RATIFIED", "RESOLUTIONS", "JOINT", "REP. SETZER", "CATAWBA COUNTY", "NEWTON", "CHAPTERED"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 4
action_count: 11
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2005-03-21"
last_action: "2005-05-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7663f560-f5e8-47fd-9adb-b5f02fe28580"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2005&BillID=H852&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "26df6b85a9aed45adbba6ace4fcb36afd227603aa337d9d8f520ad6de27fd19f"
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 852 (2005) — Honor Town of Newton.

## 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/H852v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2005/Bills/House/PDF/H852v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2005/Bills/House/PDF/H852v2.pdf)
4. **Res 2005-32** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2005/Bills/House/PDF/H852v3.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **115–0** (pass) · lower
- Second Reading — **48–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Hilton — cosponsor (person)
- Hollo — cosponsor (person)
- Kiser — cosponsor (person)
- Setzer — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2005-05-19** Ch. Res 2005-32 `became-law`
- **2005-05-19** Ratified
- **2005-05-18** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2005-05-18** Placed On Cal For 5/18/2005
- **2005-05-18** Rec From House
- **2005-05-17** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2005-05-16** Placed On Cal For 5/17/2005
- **2005-05-16** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2005-05-16** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2005-03-22** Ref To Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2005-03-21** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7663f560-f5e8-47fd-9adb-b5f02fe28580`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).