---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relative to Sikh genocide."
description: "This measure would condemn the November 1984 anti-Sikh violence in India as genocide and would urge the United States Congress to formally recognize and condemn the November 1984 anti-Sikh violence in India as genocide."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20232024"
identifier: "AJR 2"
citation: "California AJR 2 (20232024)"
classification: ["joint resolution"]
subjects: ["Sikh genocide"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bains"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 16
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2023-03-22"
last_action: "2023-07-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/21f12b5d-4df5-43fa-aa43-f0f0c9b9d168"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AJR2"
source_hash: "bbc6565f7d0d2a8485fba8d79478a96d4d447d5d79d51869afef566adfea6145"
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 AJR 2 (20232024) — Relative to Sikh genocide.

This measure would condemn the November 1984 anti-Sikh violence in India as genocide and would urge the United States Congress to formally recognize and condemn the November 1984 anti-Sikh violence in India as genocide.

## Version chain

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

1. **03/22/23 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AJR2&version=20230AJR299INT)
2. **06/14/23 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AJR2&version=20230AJR298AMD)
3. **07/20/23 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AJR2&version=20230AJR296CHP)
4. **AJR2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AJR2)
5. **07/14/23 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AJR2&version=20230AJR297ENR)

## Votes

- Be adopted. To third reading. — **11–0** (pass) · lower
- AJR 2 Bains Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **73–0** (pass) · lower
- Consent Calendar AJR2 Bains et al. — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Be adopted and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — **11–0** (pass) · upper
- AJR 2 Bains Assembly Third Reading — **66–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Bains — primary (person)
- Addis — coauthor (person)
- Aguiar-Curry — coauthor (person)
- Alanis — coauthor (person)
- Alvarez — coauthor (person)
- Arambula — coauthor (person)
- Bennett — coauthor (person)
- Berman — coauthor (person)
- Blanca Rubio — coauthor (person)
- Boerner — coauthor (person)
- Bonta — coauthor (person)
- Calderon — coauthor (person)
- Cervantes — coauthor (person)
- Connolly — coauthor (person)
- Dixon — 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)
- Holden — 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)
- Low — coauthor (person)
- Lowenthal — coauthor (person)
- Luz Rivas — coauthor (person)
- Maienschein — coauthor (person)
- Mathis — coauthor (person)
- McCarty — 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)
- Ramos — coauthor (person)
- Rendon — coauthor (person)
- Reyes — coauthor (person)
- Robert Rivas — coauthor (person)
- Rodriguez — coauthor (person)
- Santiago — coauthor (person)
- Schiavo — coauthor (person)
- Soria — coauthor (person)
- Stephanie Nguyen — coauthor (person)
- Ta — coauthor (person)
- Ting — 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)
- Wood — coauthor (person)
- Zbur — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-03-22** Introduced. To print. `introduction`
- **2023-03-23** From printer.
- **2023-03-30** Referred to Com. on RLS. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-30** From committee: Be adopted. Ordered to Third Reading. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (March 30). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, reading-1`
- **2023-04-10** Coauthors revised.
- **2023-04-10** Adopted and to Senate. (Ayes 66. Noes 0. Page 1078.) `amendment-passage, passage`
- **2023-04-11** In Senate. To Com. on RLS.
- **2023-05-10** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2023-06-14** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on JUD. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-06-28** From committee: Be adopted. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (June 27). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-06-29** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-07-06** Adopted and to Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 1915.) `amendment-passage, passage`
- **2023-07-06** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
- **2023-07-13** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 2643.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-07-20** Enrolled and filed with the Secretary of State at 2 p.m.
- **2023-07-20** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Res. Chapter 129, 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/21f12b5d-4df5-43fa-aa43-f0f0c9b9d168`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).