---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relative to Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr."
description: "This measure would honor the late civil rights pioneer Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and commemorate Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20232024"
identifier: "ACR 1"
citation: "California ACR 1 (20232024)"
classification: ["concurrent resolution"]
subjects: ["Dr Martin Luther King", "Jr Day"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Wilson"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 13
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2022-12-15"
last_action: "2023-02-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bd3614d2-ce63-4ecc-9ceb-cf8daab2ff9f"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240ACR1"
source_hash: "61f9330884b5c812ef9968b734f009b629e796ae0a055a443a46d7ef69768007"
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 1 (20232024) — Relative to Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

This measure would honor the late civil rights pioneer Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and commemorate Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.

## Version chain

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

1. **12/15/22 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240ACR1&version=20230ACR199INT)
2. **02/14/23 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240ACR1&version=20230ACR197CHP)
3. **ACR1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240ACR1)
4. **02/03/23 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240ACR1&version=20230ACR198ENR)

## Votes

- Special Consent ACR1 Wilson et al. — **36–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Wilson — primary (person)
- Addis — coauthor (person)
- Aguiar-Curry — coauthor (person)
- Alanis — coauthor (person)
- Alvarez — coauthor (person)
- Arambula — coauthor (person)
- Bains — coauthor (person)
- Bauer-Kahan — coauthor (person)
- Berman — coauthor (person)
- Blanca Rubio — coauthor (person)
- Boerner Horvath — coauthor (person)
- Calderon — coauthor (person)
- Connolly — coauthor (person)
- Davies — coauthor (person)
- Dixon — coauthor (person)
- Essayli — coauthor (person)
- Flora — coauthor (person)
- Friedman — coauthor (person)
- Gabriel — coauthor (person)
- Gallagher — coauthor (person)
- Garcia — coauthor (person)
- Gipson — coauthor (person)
- Grayson — coauthor (person)
- Haney — coauthor (person)
- Hart — coauthor (person)
- Hoover — coauthor (person)
- Irwin — coauthor (person)
- Jackson — coauthor (person)
- Joe Patterson — coauthor (person)
- Jones-Sawyer — coauthor (person)
- Juan Carrillo — coauthor (person)
- Kalra — coauthor (person)
- Lackey — coauthor (person)
- Lee — coauthor (person)
- Low — coauthor (person)
- Lowenthal — coauthor (person)
- Luz Rivas — coauthor (person)
- Maienschein — coauthor (person)
- Mathis — coauthor (person)
- McCarty — coauthor (person)
- McKinnor — coauthor (person)
- Megan Dahle — coauthor (person)
- Mike Fong — coauthor (person)
- Muratsuchi — coauthor (person)
- Ortega — coauthor (person)
- Pacheco — coauthor (person)
- Papan — coauthor (person)
- Pellerin — coauthor (person)
- Petrie-Norris — coauthor (person)
- Quirk-Silva — coauthor (person)
- Ramos — coauthor (person)
- Rendon — coauthor (person)
- Reyes — coauthor (person)
- Robert Rivas — coauthor (person)
- Rodriguez — coauthor (person)
- Sanchez — coauthor (person)
- Santiago — coauthor (person)
- Schiavo — coauthor (person)
- Soria — coauthor (person)
- Stephanie Nguyen — coauthor (person)
- Ta — coauthor (person)
- Valencia — coauthor (person)
- Villapudua — coauthor (person)
- Wallis — coauthor (person)
- Ward — coauthor (person)
- Wendy Carrillo — coauthor (person)
- Wicks — coauthor (person)
- Wood — coauthor (person)
- Zbur — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-12-15** Introduced. To print. `introduction`
- **2022-12-16** From printer.
- **2023-01-09** Without reference to committee. `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-09** Ordered to third reading.
- **2023-01-13** Coauthors revised.
- **2023-01-13** Adopted and to Senate. (Page 141.) `amendment-passage, passage`
- **2023-01-17** In Senate. To Com. on RLS.
- **2023-01-25** From committee: Ordered to third reading. `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-01** Ordered to special consent calendar.
- **2023-02-02** Adopted and to Assembly. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 140.) `amendment-passage, passage`
- **2023-02-02** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-14** Enrolled and filed with the Secretary of State at 3 p.m.
- **2023-02-14** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Res. Chapter 2, Statutes of 2023. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/bd3614d2-ce63-4ecc-9ceb-cf8daab2ff9f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).