---
type: "Bill"
title: "Honor Jesse Helms."
description: "Honor Jesse Helms."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2009"
identifier: "SJR 1103"
citation: "North Carolina SJR 1103 (2009)"
classification: ["joint resolution"]
subjects: ["AWARDS", "HONORS & MEMORIALS", "GENERAL ASSEMBLY", "RATIFIED", "RESOLUTIONS", "JOINT", "CHAPTERED", "SEN. GOODALL", "HELMS", "JESSE ALEXANDER", "JR."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 3
action_count: 9
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2009-06-08"
last_action: "2009-06-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ee6c347f-b27f-4702-907d-ea560ce4dd11"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2009&BillID=S1103&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "915ad08fb0b0b32319ba5dd6c7bd730de76daf03edd9045aa2ee27419a758cc6"
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 SJR 1103 (2009) — Honor Jesse Helms.

## 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/Senate/PDF/S1103v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/Senate/PDF/S1103v1.pdf)
3. **Res 2009-20** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/Senate/PDF/S1103v2.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **98–0** (pass) · lower
- Second Reading — **41–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Apodaca — cosponsor (person)
- Bingham — cosponsor (person)
- Blake — cosponsor (person)
- Brock — cosponsor (person)
- Brown — cosponsor (person)
- Brunstetter — cosponsor (person)
- East — cosponsor (person)
- Forrester — cosponsor (person)
- Garrou — cosponsor (person)
- Goodall — cosponsor (person)
- Hartsell — cosponsor (person)
- Hunt — cosponsor (person)
- Jacumin — cosponsor (person)
- Preston — cosponsor (person)
- Rouzer — cosponsor (person)
- Rucho — cosponsor (person)
- Tillman — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2009-06-10** Ch. Res 2009-20 `became-law`
- **2009-06-10** Ratified
- **2009-06-09** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2009-06-09** Placed On Cal For 6/9/2009
- **2009-06-09** Cal Pursuant 32(a)
- **2009-06-09** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2009-06-09** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2009-06-08** Placed On Cal For 6/9/2009
- **2009-06-08** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ee6c347f-b27f-4702-907d-ea560ce4dd11`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).