---
type: "Bill"
title: "Honor Horace Kephart/Great Smoky Mts."
description: "Honor Horace Kephart/Great Smoky Mts."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2009"
identifier: "HJR 637"
citation: "North Carolina HJR 637 (2009)"
classification: ["joint resolution"]
subjects: ["AWARDS", "HONORS & MEMORIALS", "GENERAL ASSEMBLY", "PARKS & RECREATION AREAS", "RATIFIED", "RESOLUTIONS", "JOINT", "REP. HAIRE", "CHAPTERED", "KEPHART", "HORACE"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 3
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2009-03-17"
last_action: "2009-04-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0d092c85-fff4-4558-9e9f-a6f4a78d640a"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2009&BillID=H637&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "df84f1983d126f5d7458bfeb6d9d73945616964f24716b18d061a76597f2d90e"
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 637 (2009) — Honor Horace Kephart/Great Smoky Mts.

## 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/H637v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/House/PDF/H637v1.pdf)
3. **Res 2009-11** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/House/PDF/H637v2.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **48–0** (pass) · upper
- Second Reading — **110–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Haire — cosponsor (person)
- Harrison — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2009-04-21** Ch. Res 2009-11 `became-law`
- **2009-04-21** Ratified
- **2009-04-20** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2009-04-20** Placed On Cal For 4/20/2009
- **2009-04-20** Withdrawn From Com
- **2009-04-13** Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2009-04-13** Rec From House
- **2009-04-09** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2009-04-08** Placed On Cal For 4/9/2009
- **2009-04-07** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2009-04-07** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2009-03-18** Ref To Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2009-03-18** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2009-03-17** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0d092c85-fff4-4558-9e9f-a6f4a78d640a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).