---
type: "Bill"
title: "United Nations International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination."
description: "This measure would recognize March 21, 2023, as the United Nations International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, declare racism as a public health crisis, and make antiracist literature available to member offices for distribution to constituents."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20232024"
identifier: "ACR 37"
citation: "California ACR 37 (20232024)"
classification: ["concurrent resolution"]
subjects: ["United Nations International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jackson"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 12
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-03-08"
last_action: "2023-09-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bbe472f9-c25f-4474-b798-946fabcdc3f2"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240ACR37"
source_hash: "c15fd895f7b040cef440dd2c641e2f582c308c3dc8ae3af59cca9faf92632f0b"
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 37 (20232024) — United Nations International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.

This measure would recognize March 21, 2023, as the United Nations International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, declare racism as a public health crisis, and make antiracist literature available to member offices for distribution to constituents.

## Version chain

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

1. **03/08/23 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240ACR37&version=20230ACR3799INT)
2. **09/14/23 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240ACR37&version=20230ACR3797CHP)
3. **ACR37** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240ACR37)
4. **09/11/23 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240ACR37&version=20230ACR3798ENR)

## Votes

- 3rd Reading ACR37 Jackson et al. By Smallwood-Cuevas — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Be adopted. To third reading. — **11–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Jackson — primary (person)
- Addis — coauthor (person)
- Aguiar-Curry — 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 Horvath — coauthor (person)
- Bonta — coauthor (person)
- Bryan — coauthor (person)
- Calderon — coauthor (person)
- Connolly — coauthor (person)
- Friedman — coauthor (person)
- Gabriel — coauthor (person)
- Garcia — coauthor (person)
- Gipson — coauthor (person)
- Grayson — coauthor (person)
- Haney — coauthor (person)
- Hart — coauthor (person)
- Holden — coauthor (person)
- Irwin — 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)
- 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)
- Quirk-Silva — coauthor (person)
- Ramos — coauthor (person)
- Rendon — coauthor (person)
- Reyes — coauthor (person)
- Robert Rivas — coauthor (person)
- Rodriguez — coauthor (person)
- Santiago — coauthor (person)
- Schiavo — coauthor (person)
- Soria — coauthor (person)
- Stephanie Nguyen — coauthor (person)
- Ting — coauthor (person)
- Valencia — coauthor (person)
- Villapudua — 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.

- **2023-03-08** Introduced. To print. `introduction`
- **2023-03-09** From printer.
- **2023-03-16** Referred to Com. on RLS. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-16** From committee: Be adopted. Ordered to Third Reading. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (March 16). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, reading-1`
- **2023-03-23** Coauthors revised.
- **2023-03-23** Adopted and to Senate. (Page 826.) `amendment-passage, passage`
- **2023-03-27** In Senate. To Com. on RLS.
- **2023-04-12** From committee: Ordered to third reading. `committee-passage`
- **2023-09-07** Adopted and to Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2474.) `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 165, 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/bbe472f9-c25f-4474-b798-946fabcdc3f2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).