---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relative to climate change."
description: "This measure would, among other things, recognize the serious and urgent threat maladaptation poses to the success and cost effectiveness of the state's climate resilience actions."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20252026"
identifier: "SCR 50"
citation: "California SCR 50 (20252026)"
classification: ["concurrent resolution"]
subjects: ["Maladaptation"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Stern"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 13
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-03-26"
last_action: "2025-07-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/53df683c-2276-4d7c-b0fc-0af0c8e9917a"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SCR50"
source_hash: "83a12893b0256e4fc2452ec8ba5f89e27fa9a8b9efbe7c07f21c52394d12438c"
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 50 (20252026) — Relative to climate change.

This measure would, among other things, recognize the serious and urgent threat maladaptation poses to the success and cost effectiveness of the state's climate resilience actions.

## Version chain

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

1. **03/26/25 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SCR50&version=20250SCR5099INT)
2. **07/18/25 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SCR50&version=20250SCR5097CHP)
3. **SCR50** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SCR50)
4. **07/15/25 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SCR50&version=20250SCR5098ENR)

## Votes

- 3rd Reading — **29–0** (pass) · upper
- Be adopted. To third reading. — **11–0** (pass) · lower
- Be adopted. Ordered to third reading — **4–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Stern — primary (person)
- Addis — coauthor (person)
- Aguiar-Curry — coauthor (person)
- Ahrens — coauthor (person)
- Alvarez — coauthor (person)
- Arambula — coauthor (person)
- Bains — 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)
- Celeste Rodriguez — coauthor (person)
- Connolly — coauthor (person)
- Davies — coauthor (person)
- Elhawary — coauthor (person)
- Fong — coauthor (person)
- Gabriel — coauthor (person)
- Garcia — coauthor (person)
- Gipson — coauthor (person)
- Haney — coauthor (person)
- Harabedian — coauthor (person)
- Hart — coauthor (person)
- Irwin — coauthor (person)
- Jackson — coauthor (person)
- Kalra — coauthor (person)
- Krell — coauthor (person)
- Lee — coauthor (person)
- Lowenthal — 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)
- Pellerin — coauthor (person)
- Petrie-Norris — coauthor (person)
- Quirk-Silva — coauthor (person)
- Ramos — coauthor (person)
- Ransom — coauthor (person)
- Rogers — coauthor (person)
- Schiavo — coauthor (person)
- Schultz — coauthor (person)
- Sharp-Collins — coauthor (person)
- Solache — coauthor (person)
- Soria — coauthor (person)
- Stefani — coauthor (person)
- Valencia — 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.

- **2025-03-26** Introduced. Referred to Com. on RLS. `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-02** Re-referred to Com. on N.R. & W. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-04** Set for hearing April 22.
- **2025-04-23** From committee: Be adopted. Ordered to third reading. (Ayes 4. Noes 0. Page 840.) (April 22). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-27** Read. Adopted. (Ayes 29. Noes 0. Page 1235.) Ordered to the Assembly. `amendment-passage, passage, reading-1`
- **2025-05-28** In Assembly. Held at Desk.
- **2025-06-05** Referred to Com. on NAT. RES. `referral-committee`
- **2025-06-24** From committee: Be adopted. Ordered to third reading. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (June 23). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-07-10** Coauthors revised.
- **2025-07-10** Read. Adopted. (Page 2507.) Ordered to the Senate. `amendment-passage, passage, reading-1`
- **2025-07-14** In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
- **2025-07-18** Enrolled and filed with the Secretary of State at 1 p.m.
- **2025-07-18** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Res. Chapter 149, Statutes of 2025. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/53df683c-2276-4d7c-b0fc-0af0c8e9917a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).