---
type: "Bill"
title: "State of the State Invitation."
description: "State of the State Invitation."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HJR 157"
citation: "North Carolina HJR 157 (2025)"
classification: ["joint resolution"]
subjects: ["COUNCIL OF STATE; GENERAL ASSEMBLY; GOVERNOR; PUBLIC OFFICIALS; RATIFIED; RESOLUTIONS", "JOINT; CHAPTERED"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 4
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-02-18"
last_action: "2025-02-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/16480d99-1fe2-4ab7-9a0b-8315518e1358"
source_url: "https://www.ncleg.gov/BillLookUp/2025/H157"
source_hash: "1f6bcc8e3d2c2e664e61dca81be45cc914cdcfdda5285a2dbef4da2acc412c4e"
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 157 (2025) — State of the State Invitation.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Filed** (filed) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H157v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H157v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H157v2.pdf)
4. **Resolution 2025-2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H157v3.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **115–1** (pass) · lower
- Second Reading — **48–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Adams — cosponsor (person)
- Ager — cosponsor (person)
- Almond — cosponsor (person)
- Belk — cosponsor (person)
- Bell — cosponsor (person)
- Biggs — cosponsor (person)
- Brisson — cosponsor (person)
- Buansi — cosponsor (person)
- Butler — cosponsor (person)
- Campbell — cosponsor (person)
- Carney — cosponsor (person)
- Carson Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Carver — cosponsor (person)
- Chesser — cosponsor (person)
- Colvin — cosponsor (person)
- Crawford — cosponsor (person)
- F. Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- G. Brown — cosponsor (person)
- Harrison — cosponsor (person)
- Hawkins — cosponsor (person)
- Humphrey — cosponsor (person)
- Iler — cosponsor (person)
- Jeffers — cosponsor (person)
- Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- K. Brown — cosponsor (person)
- Lofton — cosponsor (person)
- Logan — cosponsor (person)
- Longest — cosponsor (person)
- Lopez — cosponsor (person)
- Majeed — cosponsor (person)
- McNeely — cosponsor (person)
- Miller — cosponsor (person)
- Moss — cosponsor (person)
- Penny — cosponsor (person)
- Pickett — cosponsor (person)
- Pittman — cosponsor (person)
- Price — cosponsor (person)
- Pyrtle — cosponsor (person)
- Quick — cosponsor (person)
- R. Pierce — cosponsor (person)
- Reeder — cosponsor (person)
- Reives — cosponsor (person)
- Rhyne — cosponsor (person)
- Riddell — cosponsor (person)
- T. Brown — cosponsor (person)
- Turner — cosponsor (person)
- Ward — cosponsor (person)
- Watford — cosponsor (person)
- Wheatley — cosponsor (person)
- White — cosponsor (person)
- Willingham — cosponsor (person)
- Winslow — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-27** Ch. Res 2025-2 `became-law`
- **2025-02-27** Ratified
- **2025-02-26** Ordered Enrolled
- **2025-02-26** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-02-26** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-02-26** Placed on Today's Calendar
- **2025-02-26** Withdrawn From Com
- **2025-02-26** Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-26** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-02-26** Special Message Received From House
- **2025-02-26** Special Message Sent To Senate
- **2025-02-25** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-02-25** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-02-24** Placed On Cal For 02/25/2025
- **2025-02-24** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2025-02-24** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-21** Ref To Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-21** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-02-18** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/16480d99-1fe2-4ab7-9a0b-8315518e1358`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).