---
type: "Bill"
title: "Autism: sensory-friendly movie screenings."
description: "This measure would declare the support of the Legislature for the expansion of sensory-friendly movie screenings and similar programs for people with autism, and would encourage families to attend a sensory-friendly movie screening during April 2023, which is National Autism Awareness Month."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20232024"
identifier: "ACR 48"
citation: "California ACR 48 (20232024)"
classification: ["concurrent resolution"]
subjects: ["Autism", "sensory-friendly movie screenings"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Mathis"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-03-28"
last_action: "2023-05-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fa862a16-d6af-4b7b-881c-553f643720c5"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240ACR48"
source_hash: "043e0c9d7d0ccd306a4b8f3c915063d15d4f911dec68696e171cbfaea7ccb216"
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 48 (20232024) — Autism: sensory-friendly movie screenings.

This measure would declare the support of the Legislature for the expansion of sensory-friendly movie screenings and similar programs for people with autism, and would encourage families to attend a sensory-friendly movie screening during April 2023, which is National Autism Awareness Month.

## Version chain

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

1. **03/28/23 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240ACR48&version=20230ACR4899INT)
2. **05/18/23 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240ACR48&version=20230ACR4897CHP)
3. **ACR48** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240ACR48)
4. **05/15/23 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240ACR48&version=20230ACR4898ENR)

## Votes

- Special Consent ACR48 Mathis et al. — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Be adopted. To third reading. — **13–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Mathis — 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)
- Essayli — coauthor (person)
- Flora — coauthor (person)
- Friedman — coauthor (person)
- Gipson — coauthor (person)
- Grayson — author (person)
- Haney — coauthor (person)
- Hart — coauthor (person)
- Holden — coauthor (person)
- Hoover — coauthor (person)
- Irwin — 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 — author (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)
- Mike Fong — coauthor (person)
- Muratsuchi — coauthor (person)
- Pacheco — coauthor (person)
- Papan — coauthor (person)
- Pellerin — coauthor (person)
- Petrie-Norris — coauthor (person)
- Quirk-Silva — coauthor (person)
- Ramos — author (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.

- **2023-03-28** Introduced. To print. `introduction`
- **2023-03-29** From printer.
- **2023-03-30** Referred to Com. on RLS. `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-13** From committee: Be adopted. Ordered to Third Reading. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (April 13). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, reading-1`
- **2023-04-20** Coauthors revised.
- **2023-04-20** Adopted and to Senate. (Page 1270.) `amendment-passage, passage`
- **2023-04-24** In Senate. To Com. on RLS.
- **2023-05-03** From committee: Ordered to third reading. `committee-passage`
- **2023-05-09** Ordered to special consent calendar.
- **2023-05-11** Adopted and to Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 1058.) `amendment-passage, passage`
- **2023-05-11** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2023-05-18** Enrolled and filed with the Secretary of State at 2:30 p.m.
- **2023-05-18** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Res. Chapter 59, 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/fa862a16-d6af-4b7b-881c-553f643720c5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).