---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relative to Compassionate California."
description: "This measure would declare California to be the first Compassionate State in the United States of America."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20212022"
identifier: "SCR 18"
citation: "California SCR 18 (20212022)"
classification: ["concurrent resolution"]
subjects: ["Compassionate California."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Cortese"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 11
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2021-03-08"
last_action: "2021-09-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/04702be8-665f-4eae-9a5e-d69fb107cab4"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SCR18"
source_hash: "cb9caecc54213337519c239a38ab8ae4957817826b114c6b781d5653981151f6"
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 18 (20212022) — Relative to Compassionate California.

This measure would declare California to be the first Compassionate State in the United States of America.

## Version chain

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

1. **03/08/21 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SCR18&version=20210SCR1899INT)
2. **09/10/21 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SCR18&version=20210SCR1897CHP)
3. **SCR18** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SCR18)
4. **09/01/21 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SCR18&version=20210SCR1898ENR)

## Votes

- Be adopted. To Consent Calendar. — **7–0** (pass) · lower
- SCR 18 Cortese Consent Calendar Second Day — **73–0** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading — **32–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Cortese — primary (person)
- Aguiar-Curry — coauthor (person)
- Akilah Weber — coauthor (person)
- Arambula — coauthor (person)
- Bauer-Kahan — coauthor (person)
- Bigelow — 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)
- Choi — coauthor (person)
- Cooley — coauthor (person)
- Cooper — coauthor (person)
- Cristina Garcia — coauthor (person)
- Cunningham — coauthor (person)
- Davies — coauthor (person)
- Eduardo Garcia — coauthor (person)
- Flora — coauthor (person)
- Fong — coauthor (person)
- Frazier — coauthor (person)
- Friedman — coauthor (person)
- Gabriel — coauthor (person)
- Gallagher — coauthor (person)
- Gipson — coauthor (person)
- Gray — coauthor (person)
- Holden — coauthor (person)
- Irwin — coauthor (person)
- Jones-Sawyer — coauthor (person)
- Kalra — coauthor (person)
- Lackey — coauthor (person)
- Levine — coauthor (person)
- Lorena Gonzalez — coauthor (person)
- Luz Rivas — coauthor (person)
- Maienschein — coauthor (person)
- Mathis — coauthor (person)
- Mayes — coauthor (person)
- Medina — coauthor (person)
- Megan Dahle — coauthor (person)
- Mullin — coauthor (person)
- Muratsuchi — coauthor (person)
- Nazarian — 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)
- Salas — coauthor (person)
- Santiago — coauthor (person)
- Seyarto — 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)
- Wood — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-03-08** Introduced. Referred to Com. on RLS. `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-17** From committee: Ordered to third reading. `committee-passage`
- **2021-04-26** Read. Adopted. (Ayes 32. Noes 0. Page 912.) Ordered to the Assembly. `amendment-passage, passage, reading-1`
- **2021-04-26** In Assembly. Held at Desk.
- **2021-08-19** Referred to Com. on RLS. `referral-committee`
- **2021-08-23** From committee: Be adopted. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 23). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-08-26** Coauthors revised.
- **2021-08-26** Read. Adopted. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 2525.) Ordered to the Senate. `amendment-passage, passage, reading-1`
- **2021-08-30** In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
- **2021-09-10** Enrolled and filed with the Secretary of State at 11 a.m.
- **2021-09-10** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Res. Chapter 121, 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/04702be8-665f-4eae-9a5e-d69fb107cab4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).