---
type: "Bill"
title: "Honor Clarence Lightner."
description: "Honor Clarence Lightner."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2003"
identifier: "HJR 606"
citation: "North Carolina HJR 606 (2003)"
classification: ["joint resolution"]
subjects: ["AWARDS", "HONORS & MEMORIALS", "GENERAL ASSEMBLY", "MEMBERSHIP", "RATIFIED", "RESOLUTIONS", "JOINT", "CHAPTERED", "REP. B. ALLEN", "LIGHTNER", "CLARENCE EVERETT"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["B. Allen"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2003-03-20"
last_action: "2003-06-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/688f34aa-1c66-4b75-b488-8d84ccb2d457"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2003&BillID=H606&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "06ee1f7633780b30a8758d2886f044dbc8afd817b75df9847889a445c1a6e59f"
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 606 (2003) — Honor Clarence Lightner.

## 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/2003/Bills/House/PDF/H606v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/House/PDF/H606v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/House/PDF/H606v2.pdf)
4. **Edition 3** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/House/PDF/H606v3.pdf)
5. **Res 2003-21** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/House/PDF/H606v4.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **49–0** (pass) · upper
- Second Reading — **114–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- B. Allen — primary (person)
- Adams — cosponsor (person)
- Bell — cosponsor (person)
- Bonner — cosponsor (person)
- Capps — cosponsor (person)
- Carney — cosponsor (person)
- Cunningham — cosponsor (person)
- Earle — cosponsor (person)
- Farmer-Butterfield — cosponsor (person)
- Goodwin — cosponsor (person)
- Gorman — cosponsor (person)
- Hall — cosponsor (person)
- Hunter — cosponsor (person)
- Jones — cosponsor (person)
- Lucas — cosponsor (person)
- Luebke — cosponsor (person)
- McAllister — cosponsor (person)
- Michaux — cosponsor (person)
- Munford — cosponsor (person)
- Parmon — cosponsor (person)
- Ross — cosponsor (person)
- Stam — cosponsor (person)
- Weiss — cosponsor (person)
- Womble — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2003-06-19** Ch. Res 2003-21 `became-law`
- **2003-06-19** Ratified
- **2003-06-18** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2003-06-17** Placed On Cal For 6/18/2003
- **2003-06-17** Withdrawn From Comm
- **2003-04-22** Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2003-04-22** Rec From House
- **2003-04-21** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2003-04-17** Placed On Cal For 4/21/2003
- **2003-04-16** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2003-04-16** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2003-03-24** Ref To Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2003-03-20** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/688f34aa-1c66-4b75-b488-8d84ccb2d457`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).