---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relative to drug abuse."
description: "This measure would designate the month of September 2022 as Opioid, Heroin, Fentanyl, and Prescription Drug Abuse Awareness Month, as specified."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20212022"
identifier: "SCR 115"
citation: "California SCR 115 (20212022)"
classification: ["concurrent resolution"]
subjects: ["Drug abuse awareness."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bates"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 14
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2022-06-01"
last_action: "2022-08-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6eb2937a-5d6f-422f-9c03-b81e9e5bed32"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SCR115"
source_hash: "b4399a2e90f9477c76f508b122015ccc31ea44eb8db9f7a714739ab10b04a4c7"
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 115 (20212022) — Relative to drug abuse.

This measure would designate the month of September 2022 as Opioid, Heroin, Fentanyl, and Prescription Drug Abuse Awareness Month, as specified.

## Version chain

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

1. **06/01/22 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SCR115&version=20210SCR11599INT)
2. **06/09/22 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SCR115&version=20210SCR11598AMD)
3. **08/30/22 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SCR115&version=20210SCR11596CHP)
4. **SCR115** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SCR115)
5. **08/24/22 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SCR115&version=20210SCR11597ENR)

## Votes

- 3rd Reading SCR115 Bates et al. — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- SCR 115 Bates Consent Calendar Second Day — **73–0** (pass) · lower
- Be adopted. To Consent Calendar. — **7–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Bates — primary (person)
- Aguiar-Curry — coauthor (person)
- Akilah Weber — coauthor (person)
- Alvarez — 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)
- Chen — coauthor (person)
- Cooley — coauthor (person)
- Cooper — coauthor (person)
- Cristina Garcia — coauthor (person)
- Cunningham — coauthor (person)
- Dahle — coauthor (person)
- Daly — coauthor (person)
- Davies — coauthor (person)
- Dodd — principal 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)
- Haney — coauthor (person)
- Holden — coauthor (person)
- Hurtado — coauthor (person)
- Irwin — coauthor (person)
- Jones — 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)
- McKinnor — coauthor (person)
- Medina — coauthor (person)
- Megan Dahle — coauthor (person)
- Melendez — coauthor (person)
- Mia Bonta — coauthor (person)
- Mike Fong — coauthor (person)
- Mullin — coauthor (person)
- Muratsuchi — coauthor (person)
- Nazarian — coauthor (person)
- Nguyen — coauthor (person)
- Nielsen — coauthor (person)
- O'Donnell — coauthor (person)
- Patterson — coauthor (person)
- Petrie-Norris — coauthor (person)
- Portantino — 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)
- Salas — 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)
- Wicks — coauthor (person)
- Wilson — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-06-01** Introduced. Referred to Com. on RLS. `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2022-06-08** From committee: Ordered to third reading. `committee-passage`
- **2022-06-09** Read third time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2022-06-09** Ordered to second reading.
- **2022-06-13** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-08-04** Read. Adopted. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 4656.) Ordered to the Assembly. `amendment-passage, passage, reading-1`
- **2022-08-04** In Assembly. Held at Desk.
- **2022-08-11** Referred to Com. on RLS. `referral-committee`
- **2022-08-11** From committee: Be adopted. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 11). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-08-18** Coauthors revised.
- **2022-08-18** Read. Adopted. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 5956.) Ordered to the Senate. `amendment-passage, passage, reading-1`
- **2022-08-22** In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
- **2022-08-30** Enrolled and filed with the Secretary of State at 10:30 a.m.
- **2022-08-30** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Res. Chapter 152, 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/6eb2937a-5d6f-422f-9c03-b81e9e5bed32`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).