---
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: "20252026"
identifier: "ACR 116"
citation: "California ACR 116 (20252026)"
classification: ["concurrent resolution"]
subjects: ["DrMartinLutherKing", "JrDay"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jackson"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2026-01-06"
last_action: "2026-02-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/702ebad1-9096-40a2-901d-1781468e6bb4"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260ACR116"
source_hash: "8d0bc667eb7273e3fac3f526ac79a18b3aa33556375f8d2ca9d128a82e7d0b39"
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 ACR 116 (20252026) — 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. **01/06/26 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260ACR116&version=20250ACR11699INT)
2. **02/25/26 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260ACR116&version=20250ACR11697CHP)
3. **ACR116** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260ACR116)
4. **02/20/26 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260ACR116&version=20250ACR11698ENR)

## Votes

- Be adopted. To third reading. — **10–0** (pass) · lower
- Special Consent ACR116 Jackson et al. — **35–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Jackson — primary (person)
- Addis — coauthor (person)
- Aguiar-Curry — coauthor (person)
- Ahrens — coauthor (person)
- Alanis — coauthor (person)
- Alvarez — coauthor (person)
- Bains — coauthor (person)
- Bauer-Kahan — coauthor (person)
- Bennett — coauthor (person)
- Berman — coauthor (person)
- Blanca Rubio — coauthor (person)
- Boerner — coauthor (person)
- Bonta — author (person)
- Bryan — author (person)
- Calderon — coauthor (person)
- Caloza — coauthor (person)
- Carrillo — coauthor (person)
- Castillo — coauthor (person)
- Chen — coauthor (person)
- Connolly — coauthor (person)
- Davies — coauthor (person)
- DeMaio — coauthor (person)
- Dixon — coauthor (person)
- Elhawary — author (person)
- Flora — coauthor (person)
- Fong — coauthor (person)
- Gallagher — coauthor (person)
- Garcia — coauthor (person)
- Gipson — author (person)
- Haney — coauthor (person)
- Harabedian — coauthor (person)
- Hoover — coauthor (person)
- Jeff Gonzalez — coauthor (person)
- Johnson — coauthor (person)
- Kalra — coauthor (person)
- Krell — coauthor (person)
- Lackey — coauthor (person)
- Lee — coauthor (person)
- Macedo — coauthor (person)
- Mark González — coauthor (person)
- McKinnor — author (person)
- Michelle Rodriguez — coauthor (person)
- Muratsuchi — coauthor (person)
- Ortega — coauthor (person)
- Pacheco — coauthor (person)
- Papan — coauthor (person)
- Patel — coauthor (person)
- Patterson — coauthor (person)
- Petrie-Norris — coauthor (person)
- Quirk-Silva — coauthor (person)
- Ramos — coauthor (person)
- Ransom — author (person)
- Richardson — principal coauthor (person)
- Rivas — coauthor (person)
- Rogers — coauthor (person)
- Sanchez — coauthor (person)
- Schiavo — coauthor (person)
- Schultz — coauthor (person)
- Sharp-Collins — author (person)
- Smallwood-Cuevas — principal coauthor (person)
- Solache — coauthor (person)
- Soria — coauthor (person)
- Stefani — coauthor (person)
- Ta — coauthor (person)
- Valencia — coauthor (person)
- Wallis — coauthor (person)
- Ward — coauthor (person)
- Weber Pierson — principal coauthor (person)
- Wicks — coauthor (person)
- Wilson — author (person)
- Zbur — coauthor (person)
- Ávila Farías — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2026-01-06** Introduced. To print. `introduction`
- **2026-01-07** From printer.
- **2026-01-12** Referred to Com. on RLS. `referral-committee`
- **2026-01-12** From committee: Be adopted. Ordered to Third Reading. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (January 12). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, reading-1`
- **2026-01-16** Coauthors revised.
- **2026-01-16** Adopted and to Senate. (Page 3782.) `amendment-passage, passage`
- **2026-01-20** In Senate. To Com. on RLS.
- **2026-02-11** From committee: Ordered to third reading. `committee-passage`
- **2026-02-17** Ordered to special consent calendar.
- **2026-02-19** Adopted and to Assembly. (Ayes 35. Noes 0. Page 3430.) `amendment-passage, passage`
- **2026-02-19** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2026-02-25** Enrolled and filed with the Secretary of State at 11:30 a.m.
- **2026-02-25** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Res. Chapter 8, Statutes of 2026. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/702ebad1-9096-40a2-901d-1781468e6bb4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).