---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relative to Child Abuse Prevention Month."
description: "This measure would acknowledge the month of April 2024 as Child Abuse Prevention Month in California."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20232024"
identifier: "ACR 178"
citation: "California ACR 178 (20232024)"
classification: ["concurrent resolution"]
subjects: ["Child Abuse Prevention Month"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jackson"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 13
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2024-04-17"
last_action: "2024-05-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/27f74e8a-03ce-4b85-89e7-6f09ef6da0b1"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240ACR178"
source_hash: "1ec4e95323e0cd1b0aa09995765d1bc5350c571be3e9eece1f716d46b85e2f7a"
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 178 (20232024) — Relative to Child Abuse Prevention Month.

This measure would acknowledge the month of April 2024 as Child Abuse Prevention Month in California.

## Version chain

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

1. **04/17/24 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240ACR178&version=20230ACR17899INT)
2. **05/30/24 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240ACR178&version=20230ACR17897CHP)
3. **ACR178** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240ACR178)
4. **05/28/24 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240ACR178&version=20230ACR17898ENR)

## Votes

- ACR 178 Jackson Consent Calendar Second Day — **75–0** (pass) · lower
- Be adopted. To Consent Calendar. — **7–0** (pass) · lower
- Special Consent ACR178 Jackson et al. — **37–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Jackson — primary (person)
- Addis — coauthor (person)
- Aguiar-Curry — coauthor (person)
- Alvarez — coauthor (person)
- Arambula — coauthor (person)
- Bains — coauthor (person)
- Bauer-Kahan — coauthor (person)
- Bennett — coauthor (person)
- Berman — coauthor (person)
- Blanca Rubio — coauthor (person)
- Bonta — coauthor (person)
- Bryan — coauthor (person)
- Calderon — coauthor (person)
- Cervantes — coauthor (person)
- Chen — coauthor (person)
- Connolly — coauthor (person)
- Davies — coauthor (person)
- Dixon — coauthor (person)
- Essayli — coauthor (person)
- Flora — coauthor (person)
- Friedman — coauthor (person)
- Gabriel — coauthor (person)
- Garcia — coauthor (person)
- Gipson — coauthor (person)
- Grayson — coauthor (person)
- Haney — coauthor (person)
- Holden — coauthor (person)
- Hoover — coauthor (person)
- Irwin — coauthor (person)
- Jim Patterson — coauthor (person)
- Joe Patterson — coauthor (person)
- Jones-Sawyer — coauthor (person)
- Juan Carrillo — coauthor (person)
- Kalra — coauthor (person)
- Lackey — coauthor (person)
- Low — coauthor (person)
- Lowenthal — coauthor (person)
- Luz Rivas — coauthor (person)
- Maienschein — coauthor (person)
- McCarty — coauthor (person)
- McKinnor — 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)
- Ting — coauthor (person)
- Valencia — coauthor (person)
- Villapudua — coauthor (person)
- Vince Fong — coauthor (person)
- Waldron — coauthor (person)
- Wallis — coauthor (person)
- Ward — coauthor (person)
- Weber — coauthor (person)
- Wendy Carrillo — coauthor (person)
- Wicks — coauthor (person)
- Wilson — coauthor (person)
- Wood — coauthor (person)
- Zbur — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-04-17** Introduced. To print. `introduction`
- **2024-04-18** From printer.
- **2024-04-22** Referred to Com. on RLS. `referral-committee`
- **2024-04-22** From committee: Be adopted. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 22). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-25** Coauthors revised.
- **2024-04-25** Adopted and to Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 5001.) `amendment-passage, passage`
- **2024-04-30** In Senate. To Com. on RLS.
- **2024-05-08** From committee: Ordered to third reading. `committee-passage`
- **2024-05-21** Ordered to special consent calendar.
- **2024-05-23** Adopted and to Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 4185.) `amendment-passage, passage`
- **2024-05-24** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2024-05-30** Enrolled and filed with the Secretary of State at 3 p.m.
- **2024-05-30** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Res. Chapter 73, Statutes of 2024. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/27f74e8a-03ce-4b85-89e7-6f09ef6da0b1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).