---
type: "Bill"
title: "Honoring Fallen Soldiers."
description: "Honoring Fallen Soldiers."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2009"
identifier: "HJR 1652"
citation: "North Carolina HJR 1652 (2009)"
classification: ["joint resolution"]
subjects: ["ARMED FORCES", "AWARDS", "HONORS & MEMORIALS", "CALENDAR", "GENERAL ASSEMBLY", "HOLIDAYS", "RATIFIED", "RESOLUTIONS", "JOINT", "REP. BLUST", "REP. HALL", "CHAPTERED", "REP. MARTIN", "REP. KILLIAN"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Blust", "Killian", "Martin"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2009-05-20"
last_action: "2009-08-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/22713e3f-68c0-4b00-a5c7-9c047c7a2233"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2009&BillID=H1652&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "1201167fb2445200dcf408555770c258bfee7183bfaedbe4ad8db9b93373d5b7"
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 1652 (2009) — Honoring Fallen Soldiers.

## 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/H1652v0.pdf)
2. **A1: ALG-4-V-4** (committee substitute) — [source](https://webservices.ncleg.net/ViewBillDocument/2009/1202/0/H1652-ALG-4-V-4)
3. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/House/PDF/H1652v1.pdf)
4. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/House/PDF/H1652v2.pdf)
5. **Res 2009-30** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/House/PDF/H1652v3.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper
- Second Reading — **113–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Blust — primary (person)
- Killian — primary (person)
- Martin — primary (person)
- Barnhart — cosponsor (person)
- Blackwell — cosponsor (person)
- Brown — cosponsor (person)
- Burr — cosponsor (person)
- Cleveland — cosponsor (person)
- Coates — cosponsor (person)
- Dickson — cosponsor (person)
- Fisher — cosponsor (person)
- Folwell — cosponsor (person)
- Frye — cosponsor (person)
- Gillespie — cosponsor (person)
- Gulley — cosponsor (person)
- Hall — cosponsor (person)
- Hill — cosponsor (person)
- Hurley — cosponsor (person)
- Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- Justus — cosponsor (person)
- Lucas — cosponsor (person)
- M. Alexander — cosponsor (person)
- McElraft — cosponsor (person)
- Moore — cosponsor (person)
- Neumann — cosponsor (person)
- Spear — cosponsor (person)
- Steen — cosponsor (person)
- Stevens — cosponsor (person)
- Tarleton — cosponsor (person)
- Underhill — cosponsor (person)
- Wainwright — cosponsor (person)
- Weiss — cosponsor (person)
- Wiley — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2009-08-06** Ch. Res 2009-30 `became-law`
- **2009-08-06** Ratified
- **2009-08-05** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2009-08-04** Placed On Cal For 8/5/2009
- **2009-08-04** Withdrawn From Com
- **2009-05-27** Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2009-05-27** Rec From House
- **2009-05-26** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2009-05-26** Amend Adopted 1 `amendment-passage`
- **2009-05-21** Placed On Cal For 5/26/2009
- **2009-05-21** Cal Pursuant 32(a)
- **2009-05-21** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2009-05-20** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/22713e3f-68c0-4b00-a5c7-9c047c7a2233`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).