---
type: "Bill"
title: "Nowrūz Day."
description: "Existing law requires the Governor to proclaim various days in honor of a person, status, or an event."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20172018"
identifier: "AB 88"
citation: "California AB 88 (20172018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Nowrūz Day."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Nazarian"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 17
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2017-01-09"
last_action: "2017-06-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/21022a79-6b02-4a45-bdd9-8fbe0ce3a978"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB88"
source_hash: "45d06ed3ab0f5ad0131723c155b9857789df35eb261908ec4648cf5d50415c7f"
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 AB 88 (20172018) — NowrÅ«z Day.

Existing law requires the Governor to proclaim various days in honor of a person, status, or an event.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **01/09/17 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB88&version=20170AB8899INT)
2. **06/28/17 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB88&version=20170AB8897CHP)
3. **AB88** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB88)
4. **06/21/17 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB88&version=20170AB8898ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — **12–0** (pass) · upper
- Consent Calendar 2nd AB88 — **33–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 88 NAZARIAN Assembly Third Reading — **76–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Nazarian — primary (person)
- Anderson — coauthor (person)
- Baker — coauthor (person)
- Bradford — coauthor (person)
- Chiu — coauthor (person)
- Chávez — coauthor (person)
- Cristina Garcia — coauthor (person)
- Dodd — coauthor (person)
- Harper — coauthor (person)
- Hertzberg — coauthor (person)
- Kiley — coauthor (person)
- Mathis — coauthor (person)
- Mayes — coauthor (person)
- McCarty — coauthor (person)
- Mullin — coauthor (person)
- Muratsuchi — coauthor (person)
- Newman — coauthor (person)
- Nielsen — coauthor (person)
- Steinorth — coauthor (person)
- Wieckowski — coauthor (person)
- Wiener — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-09** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2017-01-10** From printer. May be heard in committee February 9.
- **2017-01-19** Referred to Com. on G.O. `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-15** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (March 15). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2017-03-16** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2017-03-16** From Consent Calendar by request of Assembly Member Nazarian. To Third Reading. `reading-1`
- **2017-03-21** Coauthors revised.
- **2017-03-23** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 721.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2017-03-23** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2017-05-10** Referred to Com. on G.O. `referral-committee`
- **2017-06-13** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (June 13). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2017-06-14** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2017-06-19** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 33. Noes 0. Page 1611.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2017-06-20** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2017-06-26** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2:30 p.m.
- **2017-06-28** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2017-06-28** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 30, Statutes of 2017.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/21022a79-6b02-4a45-bdd9-8fbe0ce3a978`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).