---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relative to climate change."
description: "This measure would declare that a climate emergency threatens the state, the nation, the planet, the natural world, and all of humanity."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20212022"
identifier: "SCR 53"
citation: "California SCR 53 (20212022)"
classification: ["concurrent resolution"]
subjects: ["Climate change."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["McGuire"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 15
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2021-06-22"
last_action: "2022-08-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2e3a480e-6877-4143-90eb-fad6098be461"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SCR53"
source_hash: "4de8cb060eef81d86c6e5610f6e15146ee03bec45465e04f11f905ab9c37880e"
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 53 (20212022) — Relative to climate change.

This measure would declare that a climate emergency threatens the state, the nation, the planet, the natural world, and all of humanity.

## Version chain

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

1. **06/22/21 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SCR53&version=20210SCR5399INT)
2. **06/02/22 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SCR53&version=20210SCR5398AMD)
3. **08/19/22 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SCR53&version=20210SCR5396CHP)
4. **SCR53** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SCR53)
5. **08/12/22 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SCR53&version=20210SCR5397ENR)

## Votes

- Be adopted. Ordered to third reading — **5–0** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading SCR53 McGuire et al. — **30–4** (pass) · upper
- Be adopted. To third reading. — **10–0** (pass) · lower
- Unfinished Business SCR53 McGuire et al. Concurrence — **29–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- McGuire — primary (person)
- Aguiar-Curry — coauthor (person)
- Akilah Weber — coauthor (person)
- Allen — coauthor (person)
- Alvarez — coauthor (person)
- Arambula — coauthor (person)
- Archuleta — coauthor (person)
- Bauer-Kahan — coauthor (person)
- Becker — coauthor (person)
- Bennett — coauthor (person)
- Berman — coauthor (person)
- Blanca Rubio — coauthor (person)
- Bloom — coauthor (person)
- Boerner Horvath — coauthor (person)
- Bryan — coauthor (person)
- Calderon — coauthor (person)
- Carrillo — coauthor (person)
- Cervantes — coauthor (person)
- Chau — coauthor (person)
- Choi — coauthor (person)
- Cooley — coauthor (person)
- Cooper — coauthor (person)
- Cristina Garcia — coauthor (person)
- Cunningham — coauthor (person)
- Daly — coauthor (person)
- Davies — coauthor (person)
- Eduardo Garcia — coauthor (person)
- Friedman — coauthor (person)
- Gabriel — coauthor (person)
- Gallagher — coauthor (person)
- Gipson — coauthor (person)
- Gray — coauthor (person)
- Grayson — coauthor (person)
- Hertzberg — coauthor (person)
- Holden — coauthor (person)
- Irwin — coauthor (person)
- Jones-Sawyer — coauthor (person)
- Kalra — coauthor (person)
- Lee — coauthor (person)
- Levine — coauthor (person)
- Limón — coauthor (person)
- Low — coauthor (person)
- Luz Rivas — coauthor (person)
- Maienschein — coauthor (person)
- Mathis — coauthor (person)
- Mayes — coauthor (person)
- McCarty — coauthor (person)
- McKinnor — coauthor (person)
- Medina — coauthor (person)
- Megan Dahle — coauthor (person)
- Mia Bonta — coauthor (person)
- Mike Fong — coauthor (person)
- Min — coauthor (person)
- Mullin — coauthor (person)
- Muratsuchi — coauthor (person)
- Nazarian — coauthor (person)
- O'Donnell — coauthor (person)
- Petrie-Norris — coauthor (person)
- Quirk — coauthor (person)
- Quirk-Silva — coauthor (person)
- Ramos — coauthor (person)
- Rendon — coauthor (person)
- Reyes — coauthor (person)
- Robert Rivas — coauthor (person)
- Rodriguez — coauthor (person)
- Salas — coauthor (person)
- Santiago — coauthor (person)
- Skinner — coauthor (person)
- Stern — coauthor (person)
- Stone — coauthor (person)
- Ting — coauthor (person)
- Valladares — coauthor (person)
- Villapudua — coauthor (person)
- Ward — coauthor (person)
- Wicks — coauthor (person)
- Wiener — coauthor (person)
- Wilson — coauthor (person)
- Wood — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-06-22** Introduced. Referred to Com. on RLS. `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2021-06-30** Re-referred to Com. on E.Q. `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-04** Set for hearing January 10.
- **2022-01-10** From committee: Be adopted. Ordered to third reading. (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 2740.) (January 10). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-01-26** Read. Adopted. (Ayes 30. Noes 4. Page 2821.) Ordered to the Assembly. `amendment-passage, passage, reading-1`
- **2022-01-26** In Assembly. Held at Desk.
- **2022-04-07** Referred to Com. on NAT. RES. `referral-committee`
- **2022-06-02** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES. `amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2022-06-28** From committee: Be adopted. Ordered to third reading. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (June 27). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-08-04** Coauthors revised.
- **2022-08-04** Read. Adopted. (Page 5752.) Ordered to the Senate. `amendment-passage, passage, reading-1`
- **2022-08-08** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
- **2022-08-11** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 29. Noes 0. Page 4713.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-08-19** Enrolled and filed with the Secretary of State at 10:30 a.m.
- **2022-08-19** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Res. Chapter 119, Statutes of 2022. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2e3a480e-6877-4143-90eb-fad6098be461`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).