---
type: "Bill"
title: "Honor Canes."
description: "Honor Canes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2005"
identifier: "HJR 2891"
citation: "North Carolina HJR 2891 (2005)"
classification: ["joint resolution"]
subjects: ["AWARDS", "HONORS & MEMORIALS", "GENERAL ASSEMBLY", "RATIFIED", "RESOLUTIONS", "JOINT", "SPORTS", "REP. HOWARD", "REP. SHERRILL", "REP. WEISS", "CHAPTERED", "REP. ROSS"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Howard", "Ross", "Sherrill"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 9
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2006-06-21"
last_action: "2006-06-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f173eebd-b723-401c-9b64-8f9596064a0c"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2005&BillID=H2891&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "30315b5a38ee499d32a05560a239ae093b42a5584c88bec010f159b580afc224"
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 2891 (2005) — Honor Canes.

## 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/2005/Bills/House/PDF/H2891v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2005/Bills/House/PDF/H2891v1.pdf)
3. **Res 2006-13** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2005/Bills/House/PDF/H2891v2.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **118–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Howard — primary (person)
- Ross — primary (person)
- Sherrill — primary (person)
- Alexander — cosponsor (person)
- Brubaker — cosponsor (person)
- Fisher — cosponsor (person)
- Glazier — cosponsor (person)
- Gulley — cosponsor (person)
- Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Justus — cosponsor (person)
- LaRoque — cosponsor (person)
- Lewis — cosponsor (person)
- McLawhorn — cosponsor (person)
- Setzer — cosponsor (person)
- Steen — cosponsor (person)
- Weiss — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2006-06-22** Ch. Res 2006-13 `became-law`
- **2006-06-22** Ratified
- **2006-06-21** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2006-06-21** Placed On Cal For 6/21/2006
- **2006-06-21** Rec From House
- **2006-06-21** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2006-06-21** Placed On Cal For 6/21/2006
- **2006-06-21** Cal Pursuant 32(a)
- **2006-06-21** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f173eebd-b723-401c-9b64-8f9596064a0c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).