---
type: "Bill"
title: "Honor John Brown."
description: "Honor John Brown."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2009"
identifier: "HJR 53"
citation: "North Carolina HJR 53 (2009)"
classification: ["joint resolution"]
subjects: ["AWARDS", "HONORS & MEMORIALS", "GENERAL ASSEMBLY", "MEMBERSHIP", "RATIFIED", "RESOLUTIONS", "JOINT", "CHAPTERED", "REP. RANDLEMAN", "BROWN", "JOHN WALTER"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brubaker", "Howard", "Randleman"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 12
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2009-02-04"
last_action: "2009-04-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/12ec2301-5182-45df-bee7-dcd3bf2dac55"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2009&BillID=H53&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "1b0058a3ac2663e7705a48b68f4038bf7dc5d6092c97ebba6a688583d2c50253"
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 53 (2009) — Honor John Brown.

## 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/2009/Bills/House/PDF/H53v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/House/PDF/H53v1.pdf)
3. **Res 2009-7** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/House/PDF/H53v2.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper
- Second Reading — **119–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Brubaker — primary (person)
- Howard — primary (person)
- Randleman — primary (person)
- Blue — cosponsor (person)
- Brown — cosponsor (person)
- Dockham — cosponsor (person)
- Dollar — cosponsor (person)
- E. Warren — cosponsor (person)
- Earle — cosponsor (person)
- Grady — cosponsor (person)
- Hackney — cosponsor (person)
- Hill — cosponsor (person)
- Hilton — cosponsor (person)
- Holloway — cosponsor (person)
- Hurley — cosponsor (person)
- Insko — cosponsor (person)
- Justus — cosponsor (person)
- Langdon — cosponsor (person)
- Luebke — cosponsor (person)
- M. Alexander — cosponsor (person)
- McCormick — cosponsor (person)
- Moore — cosponsor (person)
- Setzer — cosponsor (person)
- Starnes — cosponsor (person)
- Stevens — cosponsor (person)
- Tillis — cosponsor (person)
- Weiss — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2009-04-06** Ch. Res 2009-7 `became-law`
- **2009-04-06** Ratified
- **2009-04-02** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2009-04-01** Placed On Cal For 4/2/2009
- **2009-04-01** Rec From House
- **2009-04-01** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2009-03-31** Placed On Cal For 4/1/2009
- **2009-03-30** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2009-03-30** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2009-02-05** Ref To Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2009-02-05** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2009-02-04** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/12ec2301-5182-45df-bee7-dcd3bf2dac55`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).