---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relative to immigration."
description: "This measure would urge the President, Vice President, and the Congress of the United States to take a workable, humane, and just approach in solving our nation's broken immigration system."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20212022"
identifier: "AJR 16"
citation: "California AJR 16 (20212022)"
classification: ["joint resolution"]
subjects: ["Immigration."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Reyes"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 13
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2021-05-18"
last_action: "2021-09-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5cb68cae-d74b-4000-bd94-53e68a930018"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AJR16"
source_hash: "c818135214f45e4a20b4777dce92d68698872051b7e826c46c7e10678ca29b08"
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 AJR 16 (20212022) — Relative to immigration.

This measure would urge the President, Vice President, and the Congress of the United States to take a workable, humane, and just approach in solving our nation's broken immigration system.

## Version chain

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

1. **05/18/21 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AJR16&version=20210AJR1699INT)
2. **09/07/21 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AJR16&version=20210AJR1697CHP)
3. **AJR16** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AJR16)
4. **09/01/21 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AJR16&version=20210AJR1698ENR)

## Votes

- Be adopted. To third reading. — **8–2** (pass) · lower
- AJR 16 Reyes Assembly Third Reading — **63–2** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AJR16 Reyes et al. By Hueso — **33–0** (pass) · upper
- Be adopted. Ordered to third reading — **10–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Reyes — primary (person)
- Aguiar-Curry — coauthor (person)
- Akilah Weber — coauthor (person)
- Arambula — coauthor (person)
- Bauer-Kahan — coauthor (person)
- Bennett — coauthor (person)
- Berman — coauthor (person)
- Blanca Rubio — coauthor (person)
- Bloom — coauthor (person)
- Boerner Horvath — coauthor (person)
- Bryan — coauthor (person)
- Burke — coauthor (person)
- Calderon — coauthor (person)
- Carrillo — coauthor (person)
- Cervantes — coauthor (person)
- Chau — coauthor (person)
- Chiu — coauthor (person)
- Cooley — coauthor (person)
- Cooper — coauthor (person)
- Cristina Garcia — coauthor (person)
- Daly — coauthor (person)
- Eduardo Garcia — coauthor (person)
- Friedman — coauthor (person)
- Gabriel — coauthor (person)
- Gipson — coauthor (person)
- Gray — coauthor (person)
- Grayson — coauthor (person)
- Holden — coauthor (person)
- Irwin — coauthor (person)
- Jones-Sawyer — coauthor (person)
- Kalra — coauthor (person)
- Lackey — coauthor (person)
- Lee — coauthor (person)
- Levine — coauthor (person)
- Lorena Gonzalez — coauthor (person)
- Low — coauthor (person)
- Luz Rivas — coauthor (person)
- Maienschein — coauthor (person)
- Mayes — coauthor (person)
- McCarty — coauthor (person)
- Medina — coauthor (person)
- Mullin — coauthor (person)
- Muratsuchi — coauthor (person)
- Nazarian — coauthor (person)
- O'Donnell — coauthor (person)
- Petrie-Norris — coauthor (person)
- Quirk — coauthor (person)
- Quirk-Silva — coauthor (person)
- Ramos — coauthor (person)
- Rendon — coauthor (person)
- Robert Rivas — coauthor (person)
- Rodriguez — coauthor (person)
- Salas — coauthor (person)
- Santiago — coauthor (person)
- Stone — coauthor (person)
- Ting — coauthor (person)
- Villapudua — coauthor (person)
- Ward — coauthor (person)
- Wicks — coauthor (person)
- Wood — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-05-18** Introduced. To print. `introduction`
- **2021-05-19** From printer.
- **2021-05-20** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2021-06-22** From committee: Be adopted. Ordered to Third Reading. (Ayes 8. Noes 2.) (June 22). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, reading-1`
- **2021-06-28** Coauthors revised.
- **2021-06-28** Adopted and to Senate. (Ayes 63. Noes 2. Page 2130.) `amendment-passage, passage`
- **2021-06-29** In Senate. To Com. on RLS.
- **2021-07-07** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2021-07-14** From committee: Be adopted. Ordered to Third Reading. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (July 13). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, reading-1`
- **2021-08-30** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 33. Noes 0. Page 2218.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **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 119, 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/5cb68cae-d74b-4000-bd94-53e68a930018`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).