---
type: "Bill"
title: "Honor Pauli Murray."
description: "Honor Pauli Murray."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2007"
identifier: "SJR 157"
citation: "North Carolina SJR 157 (2007)"
classification: ["joint resolution"]
subjects: ["AWARDS", "HONORS & MEMORIALS", "GENERAL ASSEMBLY", "RATIFIED", "RESOLUTIONS", "JOINT", "SEN. KINNAIRD", "CHAPTERED", "MURRAY", "ANNA PAULINE \\\"PAULI\\"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 3
action_count: 10
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2007-02-13"
last_action: "2007-02-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f6c17adf-d932-4416-9ba8-fcfd80da979b"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2007&BillID=S157&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "e68003f9efecd1b394e496482afe93761ab6a6b0961f889b6ff896185be1f895"
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 157 (2007) — Honor Pauli Murray.

## 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/2007/Bills/Senate/PDF/S157v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/Senate/PDF/S157v1.pdf)
3. **Res 2007-7** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/Senate/PDF/S157v2.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper
- Second Reading — **101–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Atwater — cosponsor (person)
- Berger of Franklin — cosponsor (person)
- Bingham — cosponsor (person)
- Boseman — cosponsor (person)
- Cowell — cosponsor (person)
- Dannelly — cosponsor (person)
- Dorsett — cosponsor (person)
- Foriest — cosponsor (person)
- Graham — cosponsor (person)
- Hagan — cosponsor (person)
- Jones — cosponsor (person)
- Kinnaird — cosponsor (person)
- Malone — cosponsor (person)
- Rand — cosponsor (person)
- Shaw — cosponsor (person)
- Stevens — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2007-02-27** Ch. Res 2007-7 `became-law`
- **2007-02-27** Ratified
- **2007-02-26** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2007-02-26** Cal For Immediate Consid
- **2007-02-26** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2007-02-26** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2007-02-21** Placed On Cal For 2/26/2007
- **2007-02-21** Withdrawn From Comm
- **2007-02-14** Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2007-02-13** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f6c17adf-d932-4416-9ba8-fcfd80da979b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).