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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Relative to student loan debt."
+description: "This measure would urge the President of the United States to protect student loan borrowers by taking executive action to cancel up to $50,000 of student loan debt per borrower."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
+legislature: "California Legislature"
+session: "20212022"
+identifier: "SJR 1"
+citation: "California SJR 1 (20212022)"
+classification: ["joint resolution"]
+subjects: ["Student loan debt."]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Allen"]
+version_count: 5
+action_count: 14
+vote_count: 5
+first_action: "2021-02-18"
+last_action: "2021-09-17"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8742746d-30fa-4bfb-88e8-6bbf3bc69ff5"
+source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SJR1"
+source_hash: "b38bef200279fc8356ae8f83c6e368f6308603b272ca50995ba78b29ac9358bd"
+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-ca"]
+---
+
+# California SJR 1 (20212022) — Relative to student loan debt.
+
+This measure would urge the President of the United States to protect student loan borrowers by taking executive action to cancel up to $50,000 of student loan debt per borrower.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **02/18/21 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SJR1&version=20210SJR199INT)
+2. **06/17/21 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SJR1&version=20210SJR198AMD)
+3. **09/17/21 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SJR1&version=20210SJR196CHP)
+4. **SJR1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SJR1)
+5. **09/10/21 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SJR1&version=20210SJR197ENR)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Be adopted as amended. — **9–1** (pass) · lower
+- 3rd Reading SJR1 Allen — **29–6** (pass) · upper
+- SJR 1 Allen Senate Third Reading By Lee — **55–13** (pass) · lower
+- Be adopted. Ordered to third reading — **4–2** (pass) · upper
+- Unfinished Business SJR1 Allen Concurrence — **29–9** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Allen — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2021-02-18** Introduced. Referred to Com. on RLS. `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2021-03-03** Re-referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee`
+- **2021-03-05** Set for hearing March 24.
+- **2021-03-24** From committee: Be adopted. Ordered to third reading. (Ayes 4. Noes 2. Page 604.) (March 24). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2021-04-26** Read. Adopted. (Ayes 29. Noes 6. Page 913.) Ordered to the Assembly. `amendment-passage, passage, reading-1`
+- **2021-04-26** In Assembly. Held at Desk.
+- **2021-05-28** Referred to Com. on HIGHER ED. `referral-committee`
+- **2021-06-16** From committee: Be adopted as amended. (Ayes 9. Noes 1.) (June 15). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2021-06-17** Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
+- **2021-08-30** Read. Adopted. (Ayes 55. Noes 13. Page 2564.) Ordered to the Senate. `amendment-passage, passage, reading-1`
+- **2021-08-31** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
+- **2021-09-08** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 29. Noes 9. Page 2516.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2021-09-17** Enrolled and filed with the Secretary of State at 10:30 a.m.
+- **2021-09-17** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Res. Chapter 147, Statutes of 2021. `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8742746d-30fa-4bfb-88e8-6bbf3bc69ff5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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