---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relative to Black April Memorial Month."
description: "This measure would proclaim the month of April 2023 as Black April Memorial Month."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20232024"
identifier: "SCR 8"
citation: "California SCR 8 (20232024)"
classification: ["concurrent resolution"]
subjects: ["Black April Memorial Month"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Nguyen"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 18
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2022-12-07"
last_action: "2023-05-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/76b205e4-a2e7-4db3-a5b8-7e02bb3a4a4f"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SCR8"
source_hash: "1d328094733d10353b7a12bdd58ebf08edaf63c0e2876dceb6f08c54840bd0bb"
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 8 (20232024) — Relative to Black April Memorial Month.

This measure would proclaim the month of April 2023 as Black April Memorial Month.

## Version chain

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

1. **12/07/22 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SCR8&version=20230SCR899INT)
2. **04/10/23 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SCR8&version=20230SCR898AMD)
3. **05/18/23 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SCR8&version=20230SCR896CHP)
4. **SCR8** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SCR8)
5. **05/16/23 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SCR8&version=20230SCR897ENR)

## Votes

- SCR 8 Nguyen Consent Calendar Second Day — **66–0** (pass) · lower
- Be adopted. To Consent Calendar. — **12–0** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading SCR8 Nguyen et al. — **37–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Nguyen — 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)
- Calderon — coauthor (person)
- Chen — coauthor (person)
- Connolly — coauthor (person)
- Cortese — 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)
- Haney — coauthor (person)
- Holden — coauthor (person)
- Hoover — coauthor (person)
- Irwin — coauthor (person)
- Jackson — coauthor (person)
- Joe Patterson — 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)
- McKinnor — coauthor (person)
- Megan Dahle — coauthor (person)
- Mike Fong — coauthor (person)
- Pacheco — 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)
- Umberg — coauthor (person)
- Valencia — coauthor (person)
- Villapudua — coauthor (person)
- Vince Fong — coauthor (person)
- Waldron — coauthor (person)
- Wallis — coauthor (person)
- Weber — coauthor (person)
- Wendy Carrillo — coauthor (person)
- Wicks — coauthor (person)
- Wilson — coauthor (person)
- Zbur — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-12-07** Introduced. Referred to Com. on RLS. `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2023-01-18** From committee: Ordered to third reading. `committee-passage`
- **2023-01-19** Ordered to inactive file on request of Senator Nguyen.
- **2023-03-27** From inactive file on motion of Senator Nguyen.
- **2023-03-27** Ordered to second reading.
- **2023-03-28** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-04-10** Read third time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2023-04-10** Ordered to second reading.
- **2023-04-11** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-04-17** Read. Adopted. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 740.) Ordered to the Assembly. `amendment-passage, passage, reading-1`
- **2023-04-17** In Assembly. Held at Desk.
- **2023-05-04** 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 1527.) 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 52, 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/76b205e4-a2e7-4db3-a5b8-7e02bb3a4a4f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).