---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relative to Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr."
description: "This measure would honor the late civil rights pioneer and icon Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and commemorate Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20232024"
identifier: "SCR 12"
citation: "California SCR 12 (20232024)"
classification: ["concurrent resolution"]
subjects: ["Dr Martin Luther King", "Jr Day"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bradford"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 11
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2023-01-05"
last_action: "2023-03-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5574b623-2abb-49d7-b8e4-fca5dc37f7b5"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SCR12"
source_hash: "f3988b24b146fc0bb91280f4c8669392a64a5ff692676ea5122d2921099fb6c0"
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 SCR 12 (20232024) — Relative to Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

This measure would honor the late civil rights pioneer and icon Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and commemorate Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.

## Version chain

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

1. **01/05/23 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SCR12&version=20230SCR1299INT)
2. **03/14/23 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SCR12&version=20230SCR1297CHP)
3. **SCR12** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SCR12)
4. **03/07/23 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SCR12&version=20230SCR1298ENR)

## Votes

- 3rd Reading SCR12 Bradford et al. — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- SCR 12 Bradford Consent Calendar Second Day — **71–0** (pass) · lower
- Be adopted. To Consent Calendar. — **13–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Bradford — 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 Horvath — 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)
- Gabriel — coauthor (person)
- Grayson — coauthor (person)
- Haney — coauthor (person)
- Hart — 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 — coauthor (person)
- Lee — coauthor (person)
- Low — coauthor (person)
- Lowenthal — coauthor (person)
- Luz Rivas — coauthor (person)
- Maienschein — coauthor (person)
- Mathis — coauthor (person)
- McCarty — 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)
- Ramos — coauthor (person)
- Rendon — coauthor (person)
- Robert Rivas — coauthor (person)
- Rodriguez — coauthor (person)
- Sanchez — coauthor (person)
- Schiavo — coauthor (person)
- Smallwood-Cuevas — principal coauthor (person)
- Soria — coauthor (person)
- Ta — coauthor (person)
- Ting — coauthor (person)
- Valencia — coauthor (person)
- Villapudua — coauthor (person)
- Vince Fong — coauthor (person)
- Wallis — coauthor (person)
- Ward — coauthor (person)
- Weber — coauthor (person)
- Wicks — coauthor (person)
- Wilson — coauthor (person)
- Wood — coauthor (person)
- Zbur — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2023-01-05** Introduced. Referred to Com. on RLS. `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2023-01-11** From committee: Ordered to third reading. `committee-passage`
- **2023-01-13** Read. Adopted. (Ayes 34. Noes 0. Page 61.) Ordered to the Assembly. `amendment-passage, passage, reading-1`
- **2023-01-13** In Assembly. Held at Desk.
- **2023-01-26** Referred to Com. on RLS. `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-23** From committee: Be adopted. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (February 23). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-02** Coauthors revised.
- **2023-03-02** Read. Adopted. (Ayes 71. Noes 0. Page 524.) Ordered to the Senate. `amendment-passage, passage, reading-1`
- **2023-03-06** In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
- **2023-03-14** Enrolled and filed with the Secretary of State at 2 p.m.
- **2023-03-15** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Res. Chapter 12, 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/5574b623-2abb-49d7-b8e4-fca5dc37f7b5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).