---
type: "Bill"
title: "School curriculum: Asian American history and contributions."
description: "This measure would urge all schools to ensure that Asian American history and contributions are included in their curriculum, alongside those of other communities of color."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20232024"
identifier: "ACR 18"
citation: "California ACR 18 (20232024)"
classification: ["concurrent resolution"]
subjects: ["Asian American history and contributions", "School curriculum"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Mike Fong"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 18
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2023-02-17"
last_action: "2023-06-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2ad6e9ec-d966-4fd3-ab22-a7fbab3b2602"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240ACR18"
source_hash: "4a92d844e2f71ba81bc5bc7b207e052f1fc71ae341d78159fb5698986be1d510"
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 18 (20232024) — School curriculum: Asian American history and contributions.

This measure would urge all schools to ensure that Asian American history and contributions are included in their curriculum, alongside those of other communities of color.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/17/23 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240ACR18&version=20230ACR1899INT)
2. **03/08/23 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240ACR18&version=20230ACR1898AMD)
3. **06/23/23 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240ACR18&version=20230ACR1896CHP)
4. **ACR18** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240ACR18)
5. **06/16/23 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240ACR18&version=20230ACR1897ENR)

## Votes

- Be adopted and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Be adopted. To Consent Calendar. — **7–0** (pass) · lower
- ACR 18 Mike Fong Consent Calendar Second Day — **60–0** (pass) · lower
- Consent Calendar ACR18 Mike Fong et al. — **40–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Mike Fong — primary (person)
- Addis — coauthor (person)
- Aguiar-Curry — coauthor (person)
- Alanis — coauthor (person)
- Arambula — coauthor (person)
- Bains — coauthor (person)
- Bennett — coauthor (person)
- Berman — coauthor (person)
- Blanca Rubio — coauthor (person)
- Boerner Horvath — coauthor (person)
- Cervantes — coauthor (person)
- Connolly — coauthor (person)
- Davies — coauthor (person)
- Essayli — coauthor (person)
- Flora — coauthor (person)
- Friedman — coauthor (person)
- Gallagher — coauthor (person)
- Gipson — coauthor (person)
- Haney — coauthor (person)
- Hart — coauthor (person)
- Holden — coauthor (person)
- Hoover — coauthor (person)
- Jim Patterson — coauthor (person)
- Joe Patterson — 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)
- McCarty — coauthor (person)
- McKinnor — coauthor (person)
- Megan Dahle — coauthor (person)
- Min — coauthor (person)
- Muratsuchi — principal coauthor (person)
- Pacheco — coauthor (person)
- Petrie-Norris — 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)
- Stephanie Nguyen — coauthor (person)
- Ta — coauthor (person)
- Ting — author (person)
- Valencia — coauthor (person)
- Villapudua — coauthor (person)
- Vince Fong — coauthor (person)
- Waldron — coauthor (person)
- Wallis — 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.

- **2023-02-17** Introduced. To print. `introduction`
- **2023-02-18** From printer.
- **2023-02-23** Referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-08** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on ED. Amended. `amendment-introduction`
- **2023-03-09** Re-referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-23** Coauthors revised.
- **2023-03-23** From committee: Be adopted. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (March 22). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-24** Measure version as amended on March 8 corrected. `amendment-passage`
- **2023-03-30** Coauthors revised.
- **2023-03-30** Adopted and to Senate. (Ayes 65. Noes 0. Page 1011.) `amendment-passage, passage`
- **2023-04-10** In Senate. To Com. on RLS.
- **2023-04-19** Referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee`
- **2023-06-07** From committee: Be adopted. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 7). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-06-08** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-06-15** Adopted and to Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 1574.) `amendment-passage, passage`
- **2023-06-15** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2023-06-23** Enrolled and filed with the Secretary of State at 1 p.m.
- **2023-06-23** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Res. Chapter 106, 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/2ad6e9ec-d966-4fd3-ab22-a7fbab3b2602`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).