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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Relative to Arts, Culture, and Creativity Month."
+description: "This measure would encourage all Californians to support the arts and would recognize April 2025 as a significant time to recognize, appreciate, and celebrate the arts, culture, and creativity of all Californians."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
+legislature: "California Legislature"
+session: "20252026"
+identifier: "SCR 59"
+citation: "California SCR 59 (20252026)"
+classification: ["concurrent resolution"]
+subjects: ["Arts", "Culture", "andCreativityMonth"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Allen"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 10
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2025-04-07"
+last_action: "2025-05-29"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b95f1e6c-7781-4eda-8425-680d970fe974"
+source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SCR59"
+source_hash: "be09d49cdd76fd7b6a22d81e7abc2ba4cfff58a788d5bce88a32bfadacf6299b"
+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 SCR 59 (20252026) — Relative to Arts, Culture, and Creativity Month.
+
+This measure would encourage all Californians to support the arts and would recognize April 2025 as a significant time to recognize, appreciate, and celebrate the arts, culture, and creativity of all Californians.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **04/07/25 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SCR59&version=20250SCR5999INT)
+2. **05/29/25 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SCR59&version=20250SCR5997CHP)
+3. **SCR59** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SCR59)
+4. **05/27/25 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SCR59&version=20250SCR5998ENR)
+
+## Votes
+
+- SCR 59 Allen Consent Calendar Second Day — **71–0** (pass) · lower
+- 3rd Reading SCR59 Allen et al. — **36–0** (pass) · upper
+- Be adopted. To Consent Calendar. — **6–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Allen — primary (person)
+- Ashby — coauthor (person)
+- Cabaldon — coauthor (person)
+- Caballero — coauthor (person)
+- Durazo — coauthor (person)
+- Menjivar — coauthor (person)
+- Pérez — coauthor (person)
+- Rubio — coauthor (person)
+- Smallwood-Cuevas — coauthor (person)
+- Stern — coauthor (person)
+- Wahab — coauthor (person)
+- Ward — coauthor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-04-07** Introduced. Referred to Com. on RLS. `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2025-04-09** From committee: Ordered to third reading. `committee-passage`
+- **2025-04-21** Read. Adopted. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 807.) Ordered to the Assembly. `amendment-passage, passage, reading-1`
+- **2025-04-21** In Assembly. Held at Desk.
+- **2025-04-28** Referred to Com. on RLS. `referral-committee`
+- **2025-05-19** From committee: Be adopted. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (May 19). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-05-23** Read. Adopted. (Ayes 71. Noes 0. Page 1666.) Ordered to the Senate. `amendment-passage, passage, reading-1`
+- **2025-05-23** In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
+- **2025-05-29** Enrolled and filed with the Secretary of State at 2 p.m.
+- **2025-05-29** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Res. Chapter 82, Statutes of 2025. `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b95f1e6c-7781-4eda-8425-680d970fe974`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
+