---
type: "Bill"
title: "Honor Ruth Easterling."
description: "Honor Ruth Easterling."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2007"
identifier: "HJR 523"
citation: "North Carolina HJR 523 (2007)"
classification: ["joint resolution"]
subjects: ["AWARDS", "HONORS & MEMORIALS", "GENERAL ASSEMBLY", "RATIFIED", "RESOLUTIONS", "JOINT", "REP. EARLE", "CHAPTERED", "EASTERLING", "RUTH MOSS"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Carney", "Earle", "Saunders"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 12
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2007-03-06"
last_action: "2007-04-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/91c9ea72-e5ee-47e2-981d-c4874c3bb700"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2007&BillID=H523&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "75777468f753b37d0e9a428b079485083e59b20ec388757601d090f8911b70cb"
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 523 (2007) — Honor Ruth Easterling.

## 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/2007/Bills/House/PDF/H523v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/House/PDF/H523v1.pdf)
3. **Res 2007-20** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/House/PDF/H523v2.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **42–0** (pass) · upper
- Second Reading — **118–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Carney — primary (person)
- Earle — primary (person)
- Saunders — primary (person)
- Barnhart — cosponsor (person)
- Bell — cosponsor (person)
- Coates — cosponsor (person)
- Cole — cosponsor (person)
- Crawford — cosponsor (person)
- Cunningham — cosponsor (person)
- E. Warren — cosponsor (person)
- Fisher — cosponsor (person)
- Glazier — cosponsor (person)
- Gulley — cosponsor (person)
- Hackney — cosponsor (person)
- Hall — cosponsor (person)
- Harrison — cosponsor (person)
- Hill — cosponsor (person)
- Holliman — cosponsor (person)
- Howard — cosponsor (person)
- Hurley — cosponsor (person)
- Insko — cosponsor (person)
- J. Harrell — cosponsor (person)
- Jeffus — cosponsor (person)
- Justus — cosponsor (person)
- Luebke — cosponsor (person)
- M. Alexander — cosponsor (person)
- Martin — cosponsor (person)
- McGee — cosponsor (person)
- McLawhorn — cosponsor (person)
- Neumann — cosponsor (person)
- Owens — cosponsor (person)
- Parmon — cosponsor (person)
- Pierce — cosponsor (person)
- Ross — cosponsor (person)
- Samuelson — cosponsor (person)
- Tarleton — cosponsor (person)
- Underhill — cosponsor (person)
- Wainwright — cosponsor (person)
- Walend — cosponsor (person)
- Walker — cosponsor (person)
- Weiss — cosponsor (person)
- Womble — cosponsor (person)
- Yongue — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2007-04-11** Ch. Res 2007-20 `became-law`
- **2007-04-11** Ratified
- **2007-04-10** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2007-04-10** Placed On Cal For 4/10/2007
- **2007-04-10** Rec From House
- **2007-04-10** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2007-04-05** Placed On Cal For 4/10/2007
- **2007-04-05** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2007-04-05** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2007-03-07** Ref To Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2007-03-07** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2007-03-06** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/91c9ea72-e5ee-47e2-981d-c4874c3bb700`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).