---
type: "Bill"
title: "Honor Jean Preston."
description: "Honor Jean Preston."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2013"
identifier: "SJR 15"
citation: "North Carolina SJR 15 (2013)"
classification: ["joint resolution"]
subjects: ["AWARDS", "HONORS & MEMORIALS", "GENERAL ASSEMBLY", "RATIFIED", "RESOLUTIONS", "JOINT", "CHAPTERED", "PRESTON", "JEAN ROUSE"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Apodaca", "Brown"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 17
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2013-01-30"
last_action: "2013-06-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/45468c95-a118-42f8-bd20-0e9bd6669f38"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2013&BillID=S15&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "7ae1cd791635cce52f10f02de2294dd90d883fcc3d374f5c3d9e270e672802ce"
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 15 (2013) — Honor Jean Preston.

## 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/Senate/PDF/S15v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2013/Bills/Senate/PDF/S15v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2013/Bills/Senate/PDF/S15v2.pdf)
4. **Edition 3** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2013/Bills/Senate/PDF/S15v3.pdf)
5. **Edition 4** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2013/Bills/Senate/PDF/S15v4.pdf)
6. **Res 2013-16** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2013/Bills/Senate/PDF/S15v5.pdf)

## Votes

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

## Sponsors

- Apodaca — primary (person)
- Brown — primary (person)
- Allran — cosponsor (person)
- B. Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- Barefoot — cosponsor (person)
- Berger — cosponsor (person)
- Bingham — cosponsor (person)
- Brock — cosponsor (person)
- Brunstetter — cosponsor (person)
- Bryant — cosponsor (person)
- Clodfelter — cosponsor (person)
- Cook — cosponsor (person)
- D. Davis — cosponsor (person)
- Daniel — cosponsor (person)
- Ford — cosponsor (person)
- Goolsby — cosponsor (person)
- Graham — cosponsor (person)
- Gunn — cosponsor (person)
- Harrington — cosponsor (person)
- Hartsell — cosponsor (person)
- Hise — cosponsor (person)
- Hunt — cosponsor (person)
- J. Davis — cosponsor (person)
- Jenkins — cosponsor (person)
- Kinnaird — cosponsor (person)
- McLaurin — cosponsor (person)
- Meredith — cosponsor (person)
- Pate — cosponsor (person)
- Randleman — cosponsor (person)
- Rucho — cosponsor (person)
- Sanderson — cosponsor (person)
- Soucek — cosponsor (person)
- Stein — cosponsor (person)
- Tillman — cosponsor (person)
- Tucker — cosponsor (person)
- Wade — cosponsor (person)
- Walters — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2013-06-20** Ch. Res 2013-16 `became-law`
- **2013-06-20** Ratified
- **2013-06-19** Ordered Enrolled
- **2013-06-19** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2013-06-19** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2013-06-19** Added to Calendar
- **2013-06-19** Rec From Senate
- **2013-06-19** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2013-06-19** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2013-06-19** Placed on Today's Calendar
- **2013-06-19** Com Substitute Adopted
- **2013-06-19** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2013-06-18** Re-ref Com On Education/Higher Education `referral-committee`
- **2013-06-18** Withdrawn From Com
- **2013-01-31** Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2013-01-31** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2013-01-30** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/45468c95-a118-42f8-bd20-0e9bd6669f38`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).