---
type: "Bill"
title: "Supporting Prayer Week in NC."
description: "Supporting Prayer Week in NC."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2013"
identifier: "HJR 599"
citation: "North Carolina HJR 599 (2013)"
classification: ["joint resolution"]
subjects: ["CALENDAR", "COUNCIL OF STATE", "GENERAL ASSEMBLY", "GOVERNOR", "PUBLIC OFFICIALS", "RATIFIED", "RELIGION", "RESOLUTIONS", "JOINT", "CHAPTERED"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jones", "Mobley"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2013-04-08"
last_action: "2013-04-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c1b145b9-6b6f-4a3d-90e0-28f58ccb0dc3"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2013&BillID=H599&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "d58449493c393ea68b0379da6b71c67d6284dd7659ce633c55d128762c4cc5fd"
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 599 (2013) — Supporting Prayer Week in NC.

## 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/2013/Bills/House/PDF/H599v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2013/Bills/House/PDF/H599v1.pdf)
3. **Res 2013-9** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2013/Bills/House/PDF/H599v2.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- Second Reading — **104–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Jones — primary (person)
- Mobley — primary (person)
- Arp — cosponsor (person)
- B. Brown — cosponsor (person)
- Brody — cosponsor (person)
- Cleveland — cosponsor (person)
- Collins — cosponsor (person)
- Conrad — cosponsor (person)
- Dixon — cosponsor (person)
- Dobson — cosponsor (person)
- Elmore — cosponsor (person)
- Faircloth — cosponsor (person)
- Floyd — cosponsor (person)
- Ford — cosponsor (person)
- G. Graham — cosponsor (person)
- Hurley — cosponsor (person)
- J. Bell — cosponsor (person)
- Jordan — cosponsor (person)
- Lambeth — cosponsor (person)
- McElraft — cosponsor (person)
- McNeill — cosponsor (person)
- Pittman — cosponsor (person)
- R. Brawley — cosponsor (person)
- R. Brown — cosponsor (person)
- Ramsey — cosponsor (person)
- Riddell — cosponsor (person)
- S. Martin — cosponsor (person)
- S. Ross — cosponsor (person)
- Shepard — cosponsor (person)
- Steinburg — cosponsor (person)
- Stevens — cosponsor (person)
- Szoka — cosponsor (person)
- Turner — cosponsor (person)
- Waddell — cosponsor (person)
- Whitmire — cosponsor (person)
- Wray — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2013-04-29** Ch. Res 2013-9 `became-law`
- **2013-04-29** Ratified
- **2013-04-25** Ordered Enrolled
- **2013-04-25** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2013-04-25** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2013-04-25** Placed on Today's Calendar
- **2013-04-25** Withdrawn From Com
- **2013-04-15** Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2013-04-15** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2013-04-15** Rec From House
- **2013-04-11** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2013-04-11** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2013-04-10** Placed On Cal For 04/11/2013
- **2013-04-10** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2013-04-10** Withdrawn From Com
- **2013-04-09** Ref To Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2013-04-09** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2013-04-08** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c1b145b9-6b6f-4a3d-90e0-28f58ccb0dc3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).