---
type: "Bill"
title: "Honor Tar Heels on National Championship."
description: "Honor Tar Heels on National Championship."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2009"
identifier: "HJR 1517"
citation: "North Carolina HJR 1517 (2009)"
classification: ["joint resolution"]
subjects: ["AWARDS", "HONORS & MEMORIALS", "COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES", "EDUCATION", "GENERAL ASSEMBLY", "HIGHER EDUCATION", "MUNICIPALITIES", "RATIFIED", "RESOLUTIONS", "JOINT", "SPORTS", "UNC", "REP. HACKNEY", "REP. INSKO", "REP. OWENS", "REP. WEISS", "CHAPEL HILL", "ORANGE COUNTY", "CHAPTERED"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bordsen", "Hackney", "Insko"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2009-04-16"
last_action: "2009-08-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d1c40d9c-e7bb-4ad6-ab00-c9266e8424f3"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2009&BillID=H1517&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "91d650b5a209008928cd1b5e2d57312b34c181ad76726fe26f7047541b56390a"
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 1517 (2009) — Honor Tar Heels on National Championship.

## 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/2009/Bills/House/PDF/H1517v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/House/PDF/H1517v1.pdf)
3. **Res 2009-31** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/House/PDF/H1517v2.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **117–0** (pass) · lower
- Second Reading — **43–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Bordsen — primary (person)
- Hackney — primary (person)
- Insko — primary (person)
- Allen — cosponsor (person)
- Avila — cosponsor (person)
- Bell — cosponsor (person)
- Blust — cosponsor (person)
- Boles — cosponsor (person)
- Braxton — cosponsor (person)
- Brisson — cosponsor (person)
- Bryant — cosponsor (person)
- Burr — cosponsor (person)
- Burris-Floyd — cosponsor (person)
- Cleveland — cosponsor (person)
- Cole — cosponsor (person)
- Cotham — cosponsor (person)
- Crawford — cosponsor (person)
- Current — cosponsor (person)
- Dickson — cosponsor (person)
- Dollar — cosponsor (person)
- E. Floyd — cosponsor (person)
- E. Warren — cosponsor (person)
- Earle — cosponsor (person)
- Faison — cosponsor (person)
- Farmer-Butterfield — cosponsor (person)
- Fisher — cosponsor (person)
- Folwell — cosponsor (person)
- Frye — cosponsor (person)
- Goforth — cosponsor (person)
- Goodwin — cosponsor (person)
- Haire — cosponsor (person)
- Hall — cosponsor (person)
- Harrison — cosponsor (person)
- Hill — cosponsor (person)
- Howard — cosponsor (person)
- Hughes — cosponsor (person)
- Hurley — cosponsor (person)
- Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Justice — cosponsor (person)
- Justus — cosponsor (person)
- K. Alexander — cosponsor (person)
- Langdon — cosponsor (person)
- Lewis — cosponsor (person)
- Love — cosponsor (person)
- Lucas — cosponsor (person)
- Luebke — cosponsor (person)
- M. Alexander — cosponsor (person)
- Mackey — cosponsor (person)
- Martin — cosponsor (person)
- McCormick — cosponsor (person)
- McElraft — cosponsor (person)
- McGee — cosponsor (person)
- McLawhorn — cosponsor (person)
- Michaux — cosponsor (person)
- Mills — cosponsor (person)
- Neumann — cosponsor (person)
- Owens — cosponsor (person)
- Parmon — cosponsor (person)
- R. Warren — cosponsor (person)
- Randleman — cosponsor (person)
- Rapp — cosponsor (person)
- Ross — cosponsor (person)
- Sager — cosponsor (person)
- Samuelson — cosponsor (person)
- Spear — cosponsor (person)
- Stevens — cosponsor (person)
- Stewart — cosponsor (person)
- Sutton — cosponsor (person)
- Tillis — cosponsor (person)
- Tucker — cosponsor (person)
- Underhill — cosponsor (person)
- Weiss — cosponsor (person)
- Whilden — cosponsor (person)
- Wilkins — cosponsor (person)
- Williams — cosponsor (person)
- Wray — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2009-08-11** Ch. Res 2009-31 `became-law`
- **2009-08-11** Ratified
- **2009-08-07** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2009-08-07** Placed On Cal For 8/7/2009
- **2009-08-07** Withdrawn From Com
- **2009-05-04** Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2009-05-04** Rec From House
- **2009-04-29** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2009-04-28** Placed On Cal For 4/29/2009
- **2009-04-28** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2009-04-28** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2009-04-20** Ref To Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2009-04-20** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2009-04-16** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d1c40d9c-e7bb-4ad6-ab00-c9266e8424f3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).