---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relative to Deaf History Month."
description: "This measure would declare March 13, 2022, to April 15, 2022, as Deaf History Month."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20212022"
identifier: "ACR 159"
citation: "California ACR 159 (20212022)"
classification: ["concurrent resolution"]
subjects: ["Deaf History Month."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chen"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 13
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2022-03-10"
last_action: "2022-05-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c89b9340-f33a-47c1-ab2e-9833443fddae"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220ACR159"
source_hash: "53651ab8c02ce6466d705d5c74b9d803b6cd0c90f29a13b006a9f88ce85b180b"
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 ACR 159 (20212022) — Relative to Deaf History Month.

This measure would declare March 13, 2022, to April 15, 2022, as Deaf History Month.

## Version chain

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

1. **03/10/22 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220ACR159&version=20210ACR15999INT)
2. **05/10/22 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220ACR159&version=20210ACR15997CHP)
3. **ACR159** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220ACR159)
4. **04/29/22 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220ACR159&version=20210ACR15998ENR)

## Votes

- ACR 159 Chen Consent Calendar Second Day — **74–0** (pass) · lower
- Special Consent ACR159 — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- Be adopted. To Consent Calendar. — **10–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Chen — primary (person)
- Aguiar-Curry — coauthor (person)
- Akilah Weber — coauthor (person)
- Arambula — coauthor (person)
- Bauer-Kahan — coauthor (person)
- Bennett — coauthor (person)
- Berman — coauthor (person)
- Bigelow — coauthor (person)
- Blanca Rubio — coauthor (person)
- Bloom — coauthor (person)
- Boerner Horvath — coauthor (person)
- Bryan — coauthor (person)
- Calderon — coauthor (person)
- Carrillo — coauthor (person)
- Cervantes — coauthor (person)
- Choi — coauthor (person)
- Cooley — coauthor (person)
- Cooper — coauthor (person)
- Cristina Garcia — coauthor (person)
- Cunningham — coauthor (person)
- Daly — coauthor (person)
- Davies — coauthor (person)
- Eduardo Garcia — coauthor (person)
- Flora — coauthor (person)
- Fong — coauthor (person)
- Friedman — coauthor (person)
- Gabriel — coauthor (person)
- Gallagher — coauthor (person)
- Gipson — coauthor (person)
- Gray — coauthor (person)
- Grayson — coauthor (person)
- Holden — coauthor (person)
- Irwin — coauthor (person)
- Jones-Sawyer — coauthor (person)
- Kalra — coauthor (person)
- Kiley — coauthor (person)
- Lackey — coauthor (person)
- Levine — coauthor (person)
- Low — coauthor (person)
- Luz Rivas — coauthor (person)
- Maienschein — coauthor (person)
- Mathis — coauthor (person)
- Mayes — coauthor (person)
- McCarty — coauthor (person)
- Medina — coauthor (person)
- Megan Dahle — coauthor (person)
- Mia Bonta — coauthor (person)
- Mike Fong — coauthor (person)
- Mullin — coauthor (person)
- Muratsuchi — coauthor (person)
- Nazarian — coauthor (person)
- Nguyen — coauthor (person)
- O'Donnell — coauthor (person)
- Patterson — coauthor (person)
- Petrie-Norris — coauthor (person)
- Quirk — coauthor (person)
- Quirk-Silva — coauthor (person)
- Ramos — coauthor (person)
- Rendon — coauthor (person)
- Reyes — coauthor (person)
- Robert Rivas — coauthor (person)
- Rodriguez — coauthor (person)
- Santiago — coauthor (person)
- Seyarto — coauthor (person)
- Smith — coauthor (person)
- Stone — coauthor (person)
- Ting — coauthor (person)
- Valladares — coauthor (person)
- Villapudua — coauthor (person)
- Voepel — coauthor (person)
- Waldron — coauthor (person)
- Ward — coauthor (person)
- Wood — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-03-10** Introduced. To print. `introduction`
- **2022-03-11** From printer.
- **2022-03-17** Referred to Com. on RLS. `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-17** From committee: Be adopted. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (March 17). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-03-24** Coauthors revised.
- **2022-03-24** Adopted and to Senate. (Page 3985.) `amendment-passage, passage`
- **2022-03-28** In Senate. To Com. on RLS.
- **2022-04-06** From committee: Ordered to third reading. `committee-passage`
- **2022-04-26** Ordered to special consent calendar.
- **2022-04-28** Adopted and to Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 3557.) `amendment-passage, passage`
- **2022-04-28** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2022-05-10** Enrolled and filed with the Secretary of State at 3 p.m.
- **2022-05-10** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Res. Chapter 50, Statutes of 2022. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c89b9340-f33a-47c1-ab2e-9833443fddae`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).