---
type: "Bill"
title: "Honoring Duke's NCAA Championship."
description: "Honoring Duke's NCAA Championship."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2015"
identifier: "SJR 714"
citation: "North Carolina SJR 714 (2015)"
classification: ["joint resolution"]
subjects: ["AWARDS", "HONORS & MEMORIALS", "COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES", "EDUCATION", "GENERAL ASSEMBLY", "HIGHER EDUCATION", "RATIFIED", "RESOLUTIONS", "JOINT", "SPORTS", "CHAPTERED"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Blue", "McKissick"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 16
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2015-05-12"
last_action: "2015-05-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/afece6e6-b938-4db7-8518-8a8ac9d9de36"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2015&BillID=S714&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "464233d17ab9c511aefb9a017ad557a612beceebcbd08ffcaef737a38673dd45"
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 714 (2015) — Honoring Duke's NCAA Championship.

## 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/2015/Bills/Senate/PDF/S714v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2015/Bills/Senate/PDF/S714v1.pdf)
3. **Res 2015-8** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2015/Bills/Senate/PDF/S714v2.pdf)

## Votes

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

## Sponsors

- Blue — primary (person)
- McKissick — primary (person)
- Brock — cosponsor (person)
- Cook — cosponsor (person)
- Harrington — cosponsor (person)
- Hartsell — cosponsor (person)
- J. Davis — cosponsor (person)
- Krawiec — cosponsor (person)
- McInnis — cosponsor (person)
- Pate — cosponsor (person)
- Randleman — cosponsor (person)
- Rucho — cosponsor (person)
- Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Soucek — cosponsor (person)
- Stein — cosponsor (person)
- Tucker — cosponsor (person)
- Van Duyn — cosponsor (person)
- Wade — cosponsor (person)
- Woodard — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2015-05-20** Ch. Res 2015-8 `became-law`
- **2015-05-20** Ratified
- **2015-05-19** Ordered Enrolled
- **2015-05-19** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2015-05-19** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2015-05-19** Added to Calendar
- **2015-05-19** Cal Pursuant 32
- **2015-05-19** Special Message Received From Senate
- **2015-05-19** Special Message Sent To House
- **2015-05-19** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2015-05-19** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2015-05-18** Placed On Cal For 05/19/2015
- **2015-05-18** Withdrawn From Com
- **2015-05-13** Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2015-05-13** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2015-05-12** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/afece6e6-b938-4db7-8518-8a8ac9d9de36`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).