---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relative to social workers."
description: "This measure would proclaim the month of March 2023 as Social Work Month."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20232024"
identifier: "SCR 40"
citation: "California SCR 40 (20232024)"
classification: ["concurrent resolution"]
subjects: ["Social Work Month"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Menjivar"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 12
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2023-03-13"
last_action: "2023-05-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/45007c6d-313b-4a39-9e2f-166081aa3130"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SCR40"
source_hash: "7708c460ddf8ca4a8f8b3c019658213172314b17104786111671f6af88bb4dd7"
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 40 (20232024) — Relative to social workers.

This measure would proclaim the month of March 2023 as Social Work Month.

## Version chain

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

1. **03/13/23 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SCR40&version=20230SCR4099INT)
2. **05/09/23 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SCR40&version=20230SCR4097CHP)
3. **SCR40** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SCR40)
4. **05/02/23 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SCR40&version=20230SCR4098ENR)

## Votes

- 3rd Reading SCR40 Menjivar et al. — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- Be adopted. To Consent Calendar. — **13–0** (pass) · lower
- SCR 40 Menjivar Consent Calendar Second Day — **79–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Menjivar — 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)
- Eggman — 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)
- Haney — coauthor (person)
- Hart — coauthor (person)
- Holden — coauthor (person)
- Hoover — coauthor (person)
- Irwin — coauthor (person)
- Jackson — 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)
- Quirk-Silva — coauthor (person)
- Ramos — coauthor (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)
- Wahab — 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.

- **2023-03-13** Introduced. Referred to Com. on RLS. `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2023-03-22** From committee: Ordered to third reading. `committee-passage`
- **2023-03-22** (Corrected March 23).
- **2023-03-30** Read. Adopted. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 588.) Ordered to the Assembly. `amendment-passage, passage, reading-1`
- **2023-03-30** In Assembly. Held at Desk.
- **2023-04-13** Referred to Com. on RLS. `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-20** From committee: Be adopted. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (April 20). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-27** Coauthors revised.
- **2023-04-27** Read. Adopted. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 1373.) Ordered to the Senate. `amendment-passage, passage, reading-1`
- **2023-05-01** In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
- **2023-05-09** Enrolled and filed with the Secretary of State at 11 a.m.
- **2023-05-09** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Res. Chapter 47, 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/45007c6d-313b-4a39-9e2f-166081aa3130`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).