--- type: "Bill" title: "Relative to Arts, Culture, and Creativity Month." description: "This measure would encourage all Californians to support the arts and would recognize April 2025 as a significant time to recognize, appreciate, and celebrate the arts, culture, and creativity of all Californians." jurisdiction: "us/states/ca" legislature: "California Legislature" session: "20252026" identifier: "SCR 59" citation: "California SCR 59 (20252026)" classification: ["concurrent resolution"] subjects: ["Arts", "Culture", "andCreativityMonth"] status: "enacted" primary_sponsors: ["Allen"] version_count: 4 action_count: 10 vote_count: 3 first_action: "2025-04-07" last_action: "2025-05-29" source: "openstates" source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b95f1e6c-7781-4eda-8425-680d970fe974" source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SCR59" source_hash: "be09d49cdd76fd7b6a22d81e7abc2ba4cfff58a788d5bce88a32bfadacf6299b" 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 59 (20252026) — Relative to Arts, Culture, and Creativity Month. This measure would encourage all Californians to support the arts and would recognize April 2025 as a significant time to recognize, appreciate, and celebrate the arts, culture, and creativity of all Californians. ## Version chain The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment. 1. **04/07/25 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SCR59&version=20250SCR5999INT) 2. **05/29/25 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SCR59&version=20250SCR5997CHP) 3. **SCR59** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SCR59) 4. **05/27/25 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SCR59&version=20250SCR5998ENR) ## Votes - SCR 59 Allen Consent Calendar Second Day — **71–0** (pass) · lower - 3rd Reading SCR59 Allen et al. — **36–0** (pass) · upper - Be adopted. To Consent Calendar. — **6–0** (pass) · lower ## Sponsors - Allen — primary (person) - Ashby — coauthor (person) - Cabaldon — coauthor (person) - Caballero — coauthor (person) - Durazo — coauthor (person) - Menjivar — coauthor (person) - Pérez — coauthor (person) - Rubio — coauthor (person) - Smallwood-Cuevas — coauthor (person) - Stern — coauthor (person) - Wahab — coauthor (person) - Ward — coauthor (person) ## Timeline The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote. - **2025-04-07** Introduced. Referred to Com. on RLS. `introduction, referral-committee` - **2025-04-09** From committee: Ordered to third reading. `committee-passage` - **2025-04-21** Read. Adopted. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 807.) Ordered to the Assembly. `amendment-passage, passage, reading-1` - **2025-04-21** In Assembly. Held at Desk. - **2025-04-28** Referred to Com. on RLS. `referral-committee` - **2025-05-19** From committee: Be adopted. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (May 19). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable` - **2025-05-23** Read. Adopted. (Ayes 71. Noes 0. Page 1666.) Ordered to the Senate. `amendment-passage, passage, reading-1` - **2025-05-23** In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. - **2025-05-29** Enrolled and filed with the Secretary of State at 2 p.m. - **2025-05-29** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Res. Chapter 82, 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/b95f1e6c-7781-4eda-8425-680d970fe974`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).