---
type: "Bill"
title: "High Point Furniture Market."
description: "High Point Furniture Market."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2009"
identifier: "HJR 1538"
citation: "North Carolina HJR 1538 (2009)"
classification: ["joint resolution"]
subjects: ["AWARDS", "HONORS & MEMORIALS", "COUNTIES", "FURNITURE", "GENERAL ASSEMBLY", "MUNICIPALITIES", "RATIFIED", "RESOLUTIONS", "JOINT", "GUILFORD COUNTY", "HIGH POINT", "CHAPTERED", "REP. JONES"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jones"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2009-04-22"
last_action: "2009-06-17"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0a19a98e-d5ea-4531-b7eb-073f5dd39852"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2009&BillID=H1538&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "eaea8512985cc1191d9d9a9479ec7a2bb7ee4bfdec670a15eb4378edaacee870"
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 1538 (2009) — High Point Furniture Market.

## 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/H1538v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/House/PDF/H1538v1.pdf)
3. **Res 2009-21** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/House/PDF/H1538v2.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper
- Second Reading — **113–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Jones — primary (person)
- Hughes — cosponsor (person)
- Wiley — cosponsor (person)
- Wray — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2009-06-17** Ch. Res 2009-21 `became-law`
- **2009-06-17** Ratified
- **2009-06-16** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2009-06-03** Placed On Cal For 6/16/2009
- **2009-06-03** Withdrawn From Com
- **2009-05-28** Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2009-05-28** Rec From House
- **2009-05-27** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2009-05-19** Postponed To 5/27/2009
- **2009-05-06** Postponed To 5/19/2009
- **2009-05-05** Placed On Cal For 5/6/2009
- **2009-05-05** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2009-05-05** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2009-04-23** Ref To Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2009-04-23** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2009-04-22** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0a19a98e-d5ea-4531-b7eb-073f5dd39852`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).