---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relative to Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr."
description: "This measure would honor the late civil rights pioneer 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 95"
citation: "California SCR 95 (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: "2024-01-03"
last_action: "2024-03-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a1492ec5-24a0-447d-8fcb-8b6099886119"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SCR95"
source_hash: "f1da3c25b841a9da3c5d28d1cedb5f966f5876bf264b82243806d289ab879f41"
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 95 (20232024) — Relative to Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

This measure would honor the late civil rights pioneer 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. **01/03/24 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SCR95&version=20230SCR9599INT)
2. **03/12/24 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SCR95&version=20230SCR9597CHP)
3. **SCR95** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SCR95)
4. **03/06/24 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SCR95&version=20230SCR9598ENR)

## Votes

- 3rd Reading SCR95 Bradford et al. — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- SCR 95 Bradford Consent Calendar Second Day — **73–0** (pass) · lower
- Be adopted. To Consent Calendar. — **7–0** (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 — coauthor (person)
- Bonta — coauthor (person)
- Bryan — coauthor (person)
- Calderon — coauthor (person)
- Chen — coauthor (person)
- Connolly — coauthor (person)
- Davies — coauthor (person)
- Dixon — coauthor (person)
- Essayli — coauthor (person)
- Flora — 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)
- 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)
- Mike Fong — coauthor (person)
- Muratsuchi — coauthor (person)
- Ortega — coauthor (person)
- Pacheco — 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)
- Smallwood-Cuevas — coauthor (person)
- Soria — coauthor (person)
- Stephanie Nguyen — coauthor (person)
- Ta — coauthor (person)
- Ting — coauthor (person)
- Valencia — coauthor (person)
- Villapudua — 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)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-03** Introduced. Referred to Com. on RLS. `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2024-01-10** From committee: Ordered to third reading. `committee-passage`
- **2024-01-12** Read. Adopted. (Ayes 35. Noes 0. Page 2984.) Ordered to the Assembly. `amendment-passage, passage, reading-1`
- **2024-01-12** In Assembly. Held at Desk.
- **2024-01-29** Referred to Com. on RLS. `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-26** From committee: Be adopted. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (February 26). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-29** Coauthors revised.
- **2024-02-29** Read. Adopted. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 4227.) Ordered to the Senate. `amendment-passage, passage, reading-1`
- **2024-03-04** In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
- **2024-03-12** Enrolled and filed with the Secretary of State at 2 p.m.
- **2024-03-12** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Res. Chapter 24, Statutes of 2024. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a1492ec5-24a0-447d-8fcb-8b6099886119`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).