---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relative to Child Abuse Prevention Month."
description: "This measure would acknowledge April 2023 as Child Abuse Prevention Month and encourage Californians to work together to support youth-serving child abuse prevention activities in their communities and schools."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20232024"
identifier: "SCR 34"
citation: "California SCR 34 (20232024)"
classification: ["concurrent resolution"]
subjects: ["Child Abuse Prevention Month"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ashby"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 11
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2023-02-28"
last_action: "2023-05-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/62f7223b-b138-49f1-a1e9-5fe327a231da"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SCR34"
source_hash: "f03abb9868ad1e79aee6a5d28ef0c5d6162467f909576a46ca16fe64b43fff83"
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 34 (20232024) — Relative to Child Abuse Prevention Month.

This measure would acknowledge April 2023 as Child Abuse Prevention Month and encourage Californians to work together to support youth-serving child abuse prevention activities in their communities and schools.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/28/23 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SCR34&version=20230SCR3499INT)
2. **05/18/23 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SCR34&version=20230SCR3497CHP)
3. **SCR34** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SCR34)
4. **05/16/23 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SCR34&version=20230SCR3498ENR)

## Votes

- SCR 34 Ashby Consent Calendar Second Day — **66–0** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading SCR34 Ashby et al. — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- Be adopted. To Consent Calendar. — **12–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Ashby — primary (person)
- Addis — coauthor (person)
- Aguiar-Curry — coauthor (person)
- Alanis — coauthor (person)
- Bains — coauthor (person)
- Bennett — coauthor (person)
- Berman — coauthor (person)
- Blanca Rubio — coauthor (person)
- Boerner — coauthor (person)
- Bryan — coauthor (person)
- Caballero — coauthor (person)
- Calderon — coauthor (person)
- Chen — coauthor (person)
- Connolly — coauthor (person)
- Davies — coauthor (person)
- Essayli — coauthor (person)
- Flora — coauthor (person)
- Friedman — coauthor (person)
- Gabriel — coauthor (person)
- Gallagher — coauthor (person)
- Garcia — coauthor (person)
- Gipson — coauthor (person)
- Grayson — coauthor (person)
- Grove — coauthor (person)
- Haney — coauthor (person)
- Holden — coauthor (person)
- Hoover — coauthor (person)
- Irwin — coauthor (person)
- Jackson — coauthor (person)
- Joe Patterson — coauthor (person)
- Jones — coauthor (person)
- Jones-Sawyer — coauthor (person)
- Kalra — coauthor (person)
- Lackey — coauthor (person)
- Low — coauthor (person)
- Lowenthal — coauthor (person)
- Luz Rivas — coauthor (person)
- Maienschein — coauthor (person)
- Mathis — coauthor (person)
- McGuire — coauthor (person)
- McKinnor — coauthor (person)
- Megan Dahle — coauthor (person)
- Mike Fong — coauthor (person)
- Min — coauthor (person)
- Newman — coauthor (person)
- Nguyen — coauthor (person)
- Niello — coauthor (person)
- Pacheco — coauthor (person)
- Pellerin — coauthor (person)
- Petrie-Norris — coauthor (person)
- Portantino — coauthor (person)
- Quirk-Silva — coauthor (person)
- Ramos — coauthor (person)
- Rendon — coauthor (person)
- Reyes — coauthor (person)
- Robert Rivas — coauthor (person)
- Rodriguez — coauthor (person)
- Rubio — principal coauthor (person)
- Sanchez — coauthor (person)
- Santiago — coauthor (person)
- Schiavo — coauthor (person)
- Seyarto — coauthor (person)
- Skinner — coauthor (person)
- Soria — coauthor (person)
- Stephanie Nguyen — coauthor (person)
- Ta — coauthor (person)
- Ting — coauthor (person)
- Umberg — coauthor (person)
- Valencia — coauthor (person)
- Villapudua — coauthor (person)
- Vince Fong — coauthor (person)
- Wahab — coauthor (person)
- Waldron — coauthor (person)
- Wallis — coauthor (person)
- Weber — coauthor (person)
- Wendy Carrillo — coauthor (person)
- Wicks — coauthor (person)
- Wiener — coauthor (person)
- Wilk — coauthor (person)
- Wilson — coauthor (person)
- Zbur — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-02-28** Introduced. Referred to Com. on RLS. `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2023-03-08** From committee: Ordered to third reading. `committee-passage`
- **2023-04-20** Read. Adopted. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 812.) Ordered to the Assembly. `amendment-passage, passage, reading-1`
- **2023-04-20** In Assembly. Held at Desk.
- **2023-04-27** Referred to Com. on RLS. `referral-committee`
- **2023-05-04** From committee: Be adopted. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (May 4). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-11** Coauthors revised.
- **2023-05-11** Read. Adopted. (Ayes 66. Noes 0. Page 1528.) Ordered to the Senate. `amendment-passage, passage, reading-1`
- **2023-05-15** In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
- **2023-05-18** Enrolled and filed with the Secretary of State at 2 p.m.
- **2023-05-18** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Res. Chapter 53, 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/62f7223b-b138-49f1-a1e9-5fe327a231da`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).