---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relative to Women's Small Business Month."
description: "This measure would declare October 2023 as Women's Small Business Month and encourage all citizens to recognize the economic importance of women's small businesses in California."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20232024"
identifier: "ACR 109"
citation: "California ACR 109 (20232024)"
classification: ["concurrent resolution"]
subjects: ["Women's Small Business Month"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Reyes"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-07-13"
last_action: "2023-09-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/07113bd6-72ca-4264-b213-051047c62e71"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240ACR109"
source_hash: "1a6b96557e5f8196e94a77aae21d58194ae2de3965561e0b18eb709b3e7fd485"
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 109 (20232024) — Relative to Women's Small Business Month.

This measure would declare October 2023 as Women's Small Business Month and encourage all citizens to recognize the economic importance of women's small businesses in California.

## Version chain

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

1. **07/13/23 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240ACR109&version=20230ACR10999INT)
2. **09/14/23 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240ACR109&version=20230ACR10997CHP)
3. **ACR109** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240ACR109)
4. **09/11/23 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240ACR109&version=20230ACR10998ENR)

## Votes

- Special Consent ACR109 Reyes et al. — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Be adopted. To third reading. — **12–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Reyes — primary (person)
- Addis — coauthor (person)
- Aguiar-Curry — coauthor (person)
- Alanis — coauthor (person)
- Alvarez — coauthor (person)
- Arambula — coauthor (person)
- Bains — coauthor (person)
- Bauer-Kahan — coauthor (person)
- Bennett — coauthor (person)
- Berman — coauthor (person)
- Blanca Rubio — coauthor (person)
- Boerner — coauthor (person)
- Bonta — coauthor (person)
- Bryan — coauthor (person)
- Calderon — coauthor (person)
- Cervantes — coauthor (person)
- Chen — coauthor (person)
- Connolly — coauthor (person)
- Davies — coauthor (person)
- Dixon — coauthor (person)
- Flora — coauthor (person)
- Friedman — coauthor (person)
- Gabriel — coauthor (person)
- Gallagher — coauthor (person)
- Garcia — coauthor (person)
- Gipson — coauthor (person)
- Gonzalez — coauthor (person)
- Grayson — coauthor (person)
- Haney — coauthor (person)
- Hart — coauthor (person)
- Holden — coauthor (person)
- Hoover — coauthor (person)
- Hurtado — coauthor (person)
- Irwin — coauthor (person)
- Jackson — coauthor (person)
- Jim Patterson — coauthor (person)
- Joe Patterson — coauthor (person)
- Jones-Sawyer — coauthor (person)
- Kalra — coauthor (person)
- Lackey — coauthor (person)
- Lee — coauthor (person)
- Low — coauthor (person)
- Lowenthal — coauthor (person)
- Luz Rivas — coauthor (person)
- Maienschein — coauthor (person)
- Mathis — coauthor (person)
- McCarty — coauthor (person)
- McKinnor — coauthor (person)
- Megan Dahle — coauthor (person)
- Mike Fong — coauthor (person)
- Muratsuchi — coauthor (person)
- Ortega — coauthor (person)
- Pacheco — coauthor (person)
- Papan — coauthor (person)
- Pellerin — coauthor (person)
- Petrie-Norris — coauthor (person)
- Quirk-Silva — coauthor (person)
- Ramos — coauthor (person)
- Rendon — coauthor (person)
- Robert Rivas — coauthor (person)
- Rodriguez — coauthor (person)
- Sanchez — coauthor (person)
- Santiago — coauthor (person)
- Schiavo — coauthor (person)
- Soria — coauthor (person)
- Stephanie Nguyen — coauthor (person)
- Ta — coauthor (person)
- Ting — coauthor (person)
- Valencia — coauthor (person)
- Villapudua — coauthor (person)
- Vince Fong — coauthor (person)
- Waldron — coauthor (person)
- Wallis — coauthor (person)
- Ward — coauthor (person)
- Wendy Carrillo — coauthor (person)
- Wicks — coauthor (person)
- Wilson — coauthor (person)
- Wood — coauthor (person)
- Zbur — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-07-13** Introduced. To print. `introduction`
- **2023-07-14** From printer.
- **2023-08-14** Referred to Com. on RLS. `referral-committee`
- **2023-08-14** Coauthors revised.
- **2023-08-14** From committee: Be adopted. Ordered to Third Reading. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (August 14). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, reading-1`
- **2023-08-17** Coauthors revised.
- **2023-08-17** Adopted and to Senate. (Page 2736.) `amendment-passage, passage`
- **2023-08-21** In Senate. To Com. on RLS.
- **2023-08-30** From committee: Ordered to third reading. `committee-passage`
- **2023-09-05** Ordered to special consent calendar.
- **2023-09-07** Adopted and to Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2478.) `amendment-passage, passage`
- **2023-09-07** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2023-09-14** Enrolled and filed with the Secretary of State at 4 p.m.
- **2023-09-14** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Res. Chapter 169, Statutes of 2023. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/07113bd6-72ca-4264-b213-051047c62e71`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).