---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relative to Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) Awareness Month."
description: "This measure would declare the month of October 2023 as Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) Awareness Month."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20232024"
identifier: "ACR 97"
citation: "California ACR 97 (20232024)"
classification: ["concurrent resolution"]
subjects: ["Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) Awareness Month"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ward"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 13
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2023-06-14"
last_action: "2023-08-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4ece3651-03a0-4fb2-90a6-968b67cce559"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240ACR97"
source_hash: "1af21cd0d308cf5568d2e7ec8481b417aa3a37957c90ee42c38521ef6275efa7"
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 97 (20232024) — Relative to Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) Awareness Month.

This measure would declare the month of October 2023 as Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) Awareness Month.

## Version chain

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

1. **06/14/23 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240ACR97&version=20230ACR9799INT)
2. **08/30/23 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240ACR97&version=20230ACR9797CHP)
3. **ACR97** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240ACR97)
4. **08/25/23 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240ACR97&version=20230ACR9798ENR)

## Votes

- Be adopted. To Consent Calendar. — **7–0** (pass) · lower
- Special Consent ACR97 Ward et al. — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- ACR 97 Ward Consent Calendar Second Day — **70–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Ward — primary (person)
- Addis — coauthor (person)
- Aguiar-Curry — coauthor (person)
- Alanis — coauthor (person)
- Alvarez — coauthor (person)
- Arambula — coauthor (person)
- Bauer-Kahan — 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)
- Friedman — 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)
- Irwin — coauthor (person)
- Jackson — coauthor (person)
- Jim Patterson — coauthor (person)
- Jones-Sawyer — coauthor (person)
- Juan Carrillo — coauthor (person)
- Kalra — coauthor (person)
- Lackey — coauthor (person)
- Low — coauthor (person)
- Luz Rivas — coauthor (person)
- Maienschein — coauthor (person)
- Mathis — coauthor (person)
- McKinnor — coauthor (person)
- Megan Dahle — coauthor (person)
- Mike Fong — coauthor (person)
- Ortega — coauthor (person)
- Pacheco — coauthor (person)
- Papan — coauthor (person)
- Pellerin — coauthor (person)
- Petrie-Norris — coauthor (person)
- Quirk-Silva — 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)
- Ta — coauthor (person)
- Ting — coauthor (person)
- Valencia — coauthor (person)
- Villapudua — coauthor (person)
- Vince Fong — 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.

- **2023-06-14** Introduced. To print. `introduction`
- **2023-06-15** From printer.
- **2023-06-22** Referred to Com. on RLS. `referral-committee`
- **2023-06-30** From committee: Be adopted. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 29). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-07-06** Coauthors revised.
- **2023-07-06** Adopted and to Senate. (Ayes 70. Noes 0. Page 2570.) `amendment-passage, passage`
- **2023-07-10** In Senate. To Com. on RLS.
- **2023-08-16** From committee: Ordered to third reading. `committee-passage`
- **2023-08-22** Ordered to special consent calendar.
- **2023-08-24** Adopted and to Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2183.) `amendment-passage, passage`
- **2023-08-24** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2023-08-30** Enrolled and filed with the Secretary of State at 3 p.m.
- **2023-08-30** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Res. Chapter 145, 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/4ece3651-03a0-4fb2-90a6-968b67cce559`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).