---
type: "Bill"
title: "California Utility Workers Appreciation Day."
description: "This measure would designate March 14 of each year as California Utility Workers Appreciation Day."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20232024"
identifier: "ACR 153"
citation: "California ACR 153 (20232024)"
classification: ["concurrent resolution"]
subjects: ["California Utility Workers Appreciation Day"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Petrie-Norris"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-02-29"
last_action: "2024-04-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5d5a2fff-9181-45f9-9cb2-32abe0903d2c"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240ACR153"
source_hash: "20eaf049276d2f631c2946742e4ee6d4fb3dd7369d13da7a4b3bff1ca4dc5b75"
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 153 (20232024) — California Utility Workers Appreciation Day.

This measure would designate March 14 of each year as California Utility Workers Appreciation Day.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/29/24 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240ACR153&version=20230ACR15399INT)
2. **04/16/24 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240ACR153&version=20230ACR15397CHP)
3. **ACR153** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240ACR153)
4. **04/12/24 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240ACR153&version=20230ACR15398ENR)

## Votes

- Be adopted. To third reading. — **10–0** (pass) · lower
- Special Consent ACR153 Petrie-Norris et al. — **39–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Petrie-Norris — primary (person)
- Addis — coauthor (person)
- Aguiar-Curry — coauthor (person)
- Alanis — coauthor (person)
- Alvarez — coauthor (person)
- Arambula — coauthor (person)
- Bennett — coauthor (person)
- Berman — coauthor (person)
- Blanca Rubio — coauthor (person)
- Boerner — coauthor (person)
- Bonta — coauthor (person)
- Bryan — coauthor (person)
- Calderon — 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)
- 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)
- Lackey — coauthor (person)
- Lee — coauthor (person)
- Low — coauthor (person)
- Lowenthal — coauthor (person)
- Luz Rivas — coauthor (person)
- Maienschein — coauthor (person)
- Mathis — coauthor (person)
- McKinnor — coauthor (person)
- Mike Fong — coauthor (person)
- Muratsuchi — coauthor (person)
- Ortega — coauthor (person)
- Pacheco — coauthor (person)
- Papan — coauthor (person)
- Pellerin — coauthor (person)
- Ramos — coauthor (person)
- Rendon — coauthor (person)
- Reyes — 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)
- Weber — 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.

- **2024-02-29** Introduced. To print. `introduction`
- **2024-03-01** From printer.
- **2024-03-04** Referred to Com. on RLS. `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-11** From committee: Be adopted. Ordered to Third Reading. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (March 11). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, reading-1`
- **2024-03-14** Coauthors revised.
- **2024-03-14** Adopted and to Senate. (Page 4372.) `amendment-passage, passage`
- **2024-03-18** In Senate. To Com. on RLS.
- **2024-04-03** From committee: Ordered to third reading. `committee-passage`
- **2024-04-09** Ordered to special consent calendar.
- **2024-04-11** Adopted and to Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 3578.) `amendment-passage, passage`
- **2024-04-11** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2024-04-16** Enrolled and filed with the Secretary of State at 4:30 p.m.
- **2024-04-16** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Res. Chapter 40, 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/5d5a2fff-9181-45f9-9cb2-32abe0903d2c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).