---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relative to a Mexican Consulate in the County of Kern."
description: "This resolution would state, among other things, that the Legislature supports the establishment of a Mexican Consulate in the County of Kern to strengthen the state's relationship with Mexico and empower immigrant communities."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20252026"
identifier: "ACR 164"
citation: "California ACR 164 (20252026)"
classification: ["concurrent resolution"]
subjects: ["CountyofKern", "MexicanConsulate"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bains"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 14
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2026-03-23"
last_action: "2026-06-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bfdbf8ae-89ed-4b42-8a36-47fb8fe1babc"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260ACR164"
source_hash: "5420edf99fcd7610282a0ce14020ec1c8f5f1fabd2bc29a0350a370e7b31ca3d"
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 164 (20252026) — Relative to a Mexican Consulate in the County of Kern.

This resolution would state, among other things, that the Legislature supports the establishment of a Mexican Consulate in the County of Kern to strengthen the state's relationship with Mexico and empower immigrant communities.

## Version chain

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

1. **03/23/26 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260ACR164&version=20250ACR16499INT)
2. **06/10/26 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260ACR164&version=20250ACR16497CHP)
3. **ACR164** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260ACR164)
4. **06/05/26 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260ACR164&version=20250ACR16498ENR)

## Votes

- ACR 164 Bains Consent Calendar Second Day — **74–0** (pass) · lower
- Be adopted. To Consent Calendar. — **8–0** (pass) · lower
- Consent Calendar 2nd ACR164 Bains et al. — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- Be adopted and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — **6–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Bains — primary (person)
- Aguiar-Curry — coauthor (person)
- Ahrens — coauthor (person)
- Alanis — coauthor (person)
- Alvarez — coauthor (person)
- Arambula — coauthor (person)
- Bennett — coauthor (person)
- Berman — coauthor (person)
- Blanca Rubio — coauthor (person)
- Boerner — coauthor (person)
- Bonta — coauthor (person)
- Bryan — coauthor (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 — coauthor (person)
- Ellis — coauthor (person)
- Flora — coauthor (person)
- Fong — coauthor (person)
- Gabriel — coauthor (person)
- Gallagher — coauthor (person)
- Garcia — coauthor (person)
- Gipson — coauthor (person)
- Hadwick — coauthor (person)
- Haney — coauthor (person)
- Harabedian — coauthor (person)
- Hart — coauthor (person)
- Hoover — coauthor (person)
- Irwin — coauthor (person)
- Jackson — coauthor (person)
- Jeff Gonzalez — coauthor (person)
- Johnson — coauthor (person)
- Kalra — coauthor (person)
- Krell — coauthor (person)
- Lackey — coauthor (person)
- Macedo — coauthor (person)
- Mark González — coauthor (person)
- McKinnor — coauthor (person)
- Michelle Rodriguez — coauthor (person)
- Muratsuchi — coauthor (person)
- Nguyen — coauthor (person)
- Ortega — coauthor (person)
- Pacheco — coauthor (person)
- Papan — coauthor (person)
- Patel — coauthor (person)
- Patterson — coauthor (person)
- Pellerin — coauthor (person)
- Petrie-Norris — coauthor (person)
- Quirk-Silva — coauthor (person)
- Ramos — coauthor (person)
- Ransom — coauthor (person)
- Rivas — coauthor (person)
- Rogers — coauthor (person)
- Sanchez — coauthor (person)
- Schiavo — coauthor (person)
- Schultz — coauthor (person)
- Sharp-Collins — coauthor (person)
- Solache — coauthor (person)
- Stefani — coauthor (person)
- Ta — coauthor (person)
- Tangipa — coauthor (person)
- Valencia — coauthor (person)
- Wallis — coauthor (person)
- Ward — coauthor (person)
- Wilson — coauthor (person)
- Zbur — coauthor (person)
- Ávila Farías — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2026-03-23** Introduced. To print. `introduction`
- **2026-03-24** From printer.
- **2026-04-06** Referred to Com. on E.D., G., & H.I. `referral-committee`
- **2026-04-21** From committee: Be adopted. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (April 21). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-04-23** Coauthors revised.
- **2026-04-23** Adopted and to Senate. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 4798.) `amendment-passage, passage`
- **2026-04-27** In Senate. To Com. on RLS.
- **2026-05-06** Referred to Com. on B. P. & E.D. `referral-committee`
- **2026-06-01** From committee: Be adopted. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 1). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-06-02** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2026-06-04** Adopted and to Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0.) `amendment-passage, passage`
- **2026-06-04** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2026-06-10** Enrolled and filed with the Secretary of State at 3:30 p.m.
- **2026-06-10** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Res. Chapter 95, 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/bfdbf8ae-89ed-4b42-8a36-47fb8fe1babc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).