---
type: "Bill"
title: "California Farmworker Day."
description: "Existing law requires the Governor to proclaim certain days each year for specified reasons."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20212022"
identifier: "SB 721"
citation: "California SB 721 (20212022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["California Farmworker Day."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hueso"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 24
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2021-02-19"
last_action: "2021-10-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b77bfbdb-c8b5-43aa-aed6-1f4a64eac300"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB721"
source_hash: "a9ea9ca664464e380170925ca0009db2cd99bb4826a80ad3e3e15e06d380454e"
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 SB 721 (20212022) — California Farmworker Day.

Existing law requires the Governor to proclaim certain days each year for specified reasons.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/19/21 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB721&version=20210SB72199INT)
2. **04/12/21 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB721&version=20210SB72198AMD)
3. **10/04/21 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB721&version=20210SB72196CHP)
4. **SB721** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB721)
5. **09/07/21 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB721&version=20210SB72197ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass — **13–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **22–0** (pass) · lower
- SB 721 Hueso Senate Third Reading By Eduardo Garcia — **77–0** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading SB721 Hueso et al. — **36–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Hueso — primary (person)
- Aguiar-Curry — coauthor (person)
- Archuleta — coauthor (person)
- Berman — coauthor (person)
- Bigelow — coauthor (person)
- Caballero — coauthor (person)
- Cooper — coauthor (person)
- Cristina Garcia — coauthor (person)
- Daly — coauthor (person)
- Davies — coauthor (person)
- Durazo — coauthor (person)
- Eduardo Garcia — coauthor (person)
- Frazier — coauthor (person)
- Gonzalez — coauthor (person)
- Hurtado — coauthor (person)
- Jones — coauthor (person)
- Jones-Sawyer — coauthor (person)
- Lackey — coauthor (person)
- Lorena Gonzalez — coauthor (person)
- Mathis — coauthor (person)
- Melendez — coauthor (person)
- Nielsen — coauthor (person)
- Quirk-Silva — coauthor (person)
- Rubio — coauthor (person)
- Salas — coauthor (person)
- Santiago — coauthor (person)
- Smith — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-02-19** Introduced. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction`
- **2021-02-22** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 24.
- **2021-02-22** Read first time. `reading-1`
- **2021-02-22** Art. IV. Sec. 8(a) of the Constitution dispensed with.
- **2021-02-22** (Ayes 32. Noes 4.)
- **2021-02-22** Joint Rule 55 suspended. (Ayes 32. Noes 4. Page 272.)
- **2021-03-03** Referred to Com. on G.O. `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-04** Set for hearing March 9.
- **2021-03-09** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 13. Noes 0. Page 421.) (March 9). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-10** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2021-04-12** Read third time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2021-04-12** Ordered to second reading.
- **2021-04-13** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2021-04-29** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 971.) Ordered to the Assembly. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2021-04-29** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2021-05-13** Referred to Com. on G.O. `referral-committee`
- **2021-07-13** Coauthors revised.
- **2021-07-13** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 22. Noes 0.) (July 12). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-07-14** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2021-09-02** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 2684.) Ordered to the Senate. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2021-09-02** In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
- **2021-09-09** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 1 p.m.
- **2021-10-04** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2021-10-04** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 496, Statutes of 2021. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b77bfbdb-c8b5-43aa-aed6-1f4a64eac300`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).