---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relative to Social Security benefits."
description: "This measure would urge the United States Congress to amend the United States Social Security Administration's index of earnings to ensure that a decline in aggregate wages due to COVID-19 does not result in decreased benefits."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20212022"
identifier: "SJR 5"
citation: "California SJR 5 (20212022)"
classification: ["joint resolution"]
subjects: ["Social Security benefits: COVID-19."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Wilk"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 21
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2021-05-06"
last_action: "2022-09-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9aa8da67-d9a2-45c4-8a10-1ce33c9c4a5a"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SJR5"
source_hash: "fdf782b2aeadd4b7568e6677b21109c87a3a5da065fec7078ef38f9c5b0f3042"
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 SJR 5 (20212022) — Relative to Social Security benefits.

This measure would urge the United States Congress to amend the United States Social Security Administration's index of earnings to ensure that a decline in aggregate wages due to COVID-19 does not result in decreased benefits.

## Version chain

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

1. **05/06/21 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SJR5&version=20210SJR599INT)
2. **06/02/21 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SJR5&version=20210SJR598AMD)
3. **06/23/22 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SJR5&version=20210SJR597AMD)
4. **09/13/22 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SJR5&version=20210SJR595CHP)
5. **SJR5** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SJR5)
6. **09/06/22 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SJR5&version=20210SJR596ENR)

## Votes

- Consent Calendar SJR5 Wilk et al. — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- Be adopted. To Consent Calendar. — **6–0** (pass) · lower
- SJR 5 Wilk Senate Third Reading By Lackey — **76–0** (pass) · lower
- Be adopted and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — **5–0** (pass) · upper
- Special Consent SJR5 Wilk et al. — **38–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Wilk — 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)
- Carrillo — coauthor (person)
- Cervantes — coauthor (person)
- Chen — coauthor (person)
- Choi — coauthor (person)
- Cooley — coauthor (person)
- Cooper — coauthor (person)
- Cristina Garcia — coauthor (person)
- Cunningham — coauthor (person)
- Dahle — coauthor (person)
- Daly — coauthor (person)
- Davies — coauthor (person)
- Eduardo Garcia — coauthor (person)
- Flora — coauthor (person)
- Fong — coauthor (person)
- Gabriel — coauthor (person)
- Gallagher — coauthor (person)
- Gipson — coauthor (person)
- Gray — coauthor (person)
- Grayson — coauthor (person)
- Haney — coauthor (person)
- Holden — 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)
- 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)
- Skinner — coauthor (person)
- Smith — coauthor (person)
- Stone — coauthor (person)
- Ting — coauthor (person)
- Valladares — coauthor (person)
- Villapudua — coauthor (person)
- Voepel — coauthor (person)
- Ward — coauthor (person)
- Wicks — coauthor (person)
- Wilson — coauthor (person)
- Wood — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-05-06** Introduced. Referred to Com. on RLS. `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2021-05-19** Re-referred to Com. on L., P.E. & R. `referral-committee`
- **2021-05-28** Set for hearing June 7.
- **2021-06-02** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on L., P.E. & R. `amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2021-06-08** From committee: Be adopted. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 1437.) (June 7). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-06-09** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2021-06-17** Read. Adopted. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 1542.) Ordered to the Assembly. `amendment-passage, passage, reading-1`
- **2021-06-17** In Assembly. Held at Desk.
- **2021-07-01** Referred to Com. on P.E. & R. `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-16** From committee: Be adopted. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (March 16). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-03-21** From consent calendar on motion of Assembly Member Reyes.
- **2022-03-21** Ordered to third reading.
- **2022-06-23** Read third time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2022-06-23** Ordered to third reading.
- **2022-08-01** Coauthors revised.
- **2022-08-01** Read. Adopted. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 5708.) Ordered to the Senate. `amendment-passage, passage, reading-1`
- **2022-08-02** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
- **2022-08-30** Ordered to special consent calendar.
- **2022-08-30** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 5340.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-09-13** Enrolled and filed with the Secretary of State at 2:30 p.m.
- **2022-09-13** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Res. Chapter 181, 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/9aa8da67-d9a2-45c4-8a10-1ce33c9c4a5a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).