---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relative to Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr."
description: "This measure would honor the late civil rights pioneer Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and commemorate Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20232024"
identifier: "ACR 116"
citation: "California ACR 116 (20232024)"
classification: ["concurrent resolution"]
subjects: ["Dr Martin Luther King", "Jr Day"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Wilson"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-09-08"
last_action: "2024-03-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3e497063-8c92-4dd4-89cc-86676b61b1c0"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240ACR116"
source_hash: "bad111481718698522c33263c49f96a991a76c6c179b54ce30dcf150f26ded9d"
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 116 (20232024) — Relative to Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

This measure would honor the late civil rights pioneer Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and commemorate Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.

## Version chain

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

1. **09/08/23 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240ACR116&version=20230ACR11699INT)
2. **03/04/24 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240ACR116&version=20230ACR11697CHP)
3. **ACR116** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240ACR116)
4. **02/28/24 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240ACR116&version=20230ACR11698ENR)

## Votes

- Special Consent ACR116 Wilson et al. — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- Be adopted. To third reading. — **10–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Wilson — primary (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)
- Bradford — coauthor (person)
- Bryan — coauthor (person)
- Cervantes — coauthor (person)
- Chen — coauthor (person)
- Connolly — coauthor (person)
- Davies — coauthor (person)
- Dixon — coauthor (person)
- Essayli — coauthor (person)
- Flora — coauthor (person)
- Friedman — coauthor (person)
- Gabriel — coauthor (person)
- Gallagher — coauthor (person)
- Garcia — coauthor (person)
- Gipson — coauthor (person)
- Grayson — coauthor (person)
- Haney — coauthor (person)
- Hart — coauthor (person)
- Holden — coauthor (person)
- Hoover — coauthor (person)
- Jackson — coauthor (person)
- Jim Patterson — coauthor (person)
- Joe Patterson — coauthor (person)
- Jones-Sawyer — coauthor (person)
- Juan Carrillo — coauthor (person)
- Kalra — 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)
- Mike Fong — coauthor (person)
- Muratsuchi — coauthor (person)
- Ortega — coauthor (person)
- Pacheco — coauthor (person)
- Papan — coauthor (person)
- Pellerin — coauthor (person)
- Petrie-Norris — coauthor (person)
- Ramos — coauthor (person)
- Reyes — coauthor (person)
- Robert Rivas — coauthor (person)
- Rodriguez — coauthor (person)
- Sanchez — coauthor (person)
- Santiago — coauthor (person)
- Schiavo — coauthor (person)
- Smallwood-Cuevas — coauthor (person)
- Soria — coauthor (person)
- Stephanie Nguyen — coauthor (person)
- Ta — coauthor (person)
- Ting — coauthor (person)
- Villapudua — coauthor (person)
- Vince Fong — coauthor (person)
- Waldron — coauthor (person)
- Wallis — coauthor (person)
- Ward — coauthor (person)
- Weber — coauthor (person)
- Wendy Carrillo — coauthor (person)
- Wood — coauthor (person)
- Zbur — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-09-08** Introduced. To print. `introduction`
- **2023-09-09** From printer.
- **2024-01-04** Referred to Com. on RLS. `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-04** From committee: Be adopted. Ordered to Third Reading. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (January 4). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, reading-1`
- **2024-01-12** Coauthors revised.
- **2024-01-12** Adopted and to Senate. (Page 3850.) `amendment-passage, passage`
- **2024-01-16** In Senate. To Com. on RLS.
- **2024-02-14** From committee: Ordered to third reading. `committee-passage`
- **2024-02-22** Ordered to special consent calendar.
- **2024-02-26** Adopted and to Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 3210.) `amendment-passage, passage`
- **2024-02-26** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2024-03-04** Enrolled and filed with the Secretary of State at 4 p.m.
- **2024-03-04** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Res. Chapter 16, Statutes of 2024. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3e497063-8c92-4dd4-89cc-86676b61b1c0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).