---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relative to state employee merit awards."
description: "This measure would declare that a merit award payment in a specified amount, authorized by the Department of Human Resources, is made to a specified current state employee whose proposal has resulted in annual savings and net revenue gains to the state."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20212022"
identifier: "ACR 45"
citation: "California ACR 45 (20212022)"
classification: ["concurrent resolution"]
subjects: ["State employee merit awards."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Cooper"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 16
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2021-03-15"
last_action: "2021-09-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4f6d0bbe-cd0e-45c2-af7c-9dd8f3c22e95"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220ACR45"
source_hash: "d6a29a7dad54ea5b1fadc330fd392a07ae7caec931a590f9f1285b9df2de32e8"
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 45 (20212022) — Relative to state employee merit awards.

This measure would declare that a merit award payment in a specified amount, authorized by the Department of Human Resources, is made to a specified current state employee whose proposal has resulted in annual savings and net revenue gains to the state.

## Version chain

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

1. **03/15/21 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220ACR45&version=20210ACR4599INT)
2. **09/07/21 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220ACR45&version=20210ACR4597CHP)
3. **ACR45** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220ACR45)
4. **09/01/21 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220ACR45&version=20210ACR4598ENR)

## Votes

- Be adopted, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **5–0** (pass) · upper
- ACR 45 Cooper Consent Calendar Second Day — **76–0** (pass) · lower
- Be adopted. To Consent Calendar. — **16–0** (pass) · lower
- Be adopted and re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **7–0** (pass) · lower
- Consent Calendar ACR45 — **39–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Cooper — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-03-15** Introduced. To print. `introduction`
- **2021-03-16** From printer.
- **2021-03-18** Referred to Com. on P.E. & R. `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-19** From committee: Be adopted, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Re-referred. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 15). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2021-04-28** From committee: Be adopted. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (April 28). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-05-03** Adopted and to Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 1287.) `amendment-passage, passage`
- **2021-05-04** In Senate. To Com. on RLS.
- **2021-05-12** Referred to Com. on L., P.E. & R. `referral-committee`
- **2021-06-08** From committee: Be adopted, and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 7). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2021-06-17** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2021-08-23** From committee: Be ordered to second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to Consent Calendar. `committee-passage, reading-2`
- **2021-08-24** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2021-08-30** Adopted and to Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2241.) `amendment-passage, passage`
- **2021-08-31** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2021-09-07** Enrolled and filed with the Secretary of State at 2:30 p.m.
- **2021-09-07** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Res. Chapter 113, 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/4f6d0bbe-cd0e-45c2-af7c-9dd8f3c22e95`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).