---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relative to Positive Parenting Awareness Month."
description: "This measure would designate January 2026 as Positive Parenting Awareness Month in California."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20252026"
identifier: "ACR 120"
citation: "California ACR 120 (20252026)"
classification: ["concurrent resolution"]
subjects: ["PositiveParentingAwarenessMonth"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ávila Farías"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 16
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2026-01-12"
last_action: "2026-04-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7146617d-96f6-4ff9-8097-73fdd1cb5f6d"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260ACR120"
source_hash: "e77705884f2968464b2a0a44d1b976e5755c847e7bfd5274af791f931530bf5e"
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 120 (20252026) — Relative to Positive Parenting Awareness Month.

This measure would designate January 2026 as Positive Parenting Awareness Month in California.

## Version chain

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

1. **01/12/26 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260ACR120&version=20250ACR12099INT)
2. **02/09/26 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260ACR120&version=20250ACR12098AMD)
3. **04/21/26 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260ACR120&version=20250ACR12096CHP)
4. **ACR120** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260ACR120)
5. **04/17/26 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260ACR120&version=20250ACR12097ENR)

## Votes

- Special Consent ACR120 Ávila Farías et al. — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- ACR 120 Ávila Farías Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **67–0** (pass) · lower
- Be adopted. To third reading. — **9–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Ávila Farías — primary (person)
- Addis — coauthor (person)
- Aguiar-Curry — coauthor (person)
- Ahrens — coauthor (person)
- Alanis — coauthor (person)
- Alvarez — coauthor (person)
- Bains — coauthor (person)
- Bauer-Kahan — coauthor (person)
- Bennett — coauthor (person)
- Berman — coauthor (person)
- Blanca Rubio — coauthor (person)
- Boerner — coauthor (person)
- Bonta — coauthor (person)
- Bryan — coauthor (person)
- Calderon — coauthor (person)
- Carrillo — coauthor (person)
- Castillo — coauthor (person)
- Chen — coauthor (person)
- Davies — coauthor (person)
- DeMaio — coauthor (person)
- Dixon — coauthor (person)
- Elhawary — coauthor (person)
- Flora — coauthor (person)
- Fong — coauthor (person)
- Gabriel — coauthor (person)
- Gallagher — coauthor (person)
- Garcia — coauthor (person)
- Hadwick — coauthor (person)
- Haney — coauthor (person)
- Harabedian — coauthor (person)
- Hart — coauthor (person)
- Hoover — coauthor (person)
- Irwin — coauthor (person)
- Jackson — coauthor (person)
- Jeff Gonzalez — coauthor (person)
- Johnson — coauthor (person)
- Kalra — coauthor (person)
- Krell — coauthor (person)
- Lackey — coauthor (person)
- Lee — coauthor (person)
- Lowenthal — coauthor (person)
- Mark González — coauthor (person)
- McKinnor — coauthor (person)
- Michelle Rodriguez — coauthor (person)
- Muratsuchi — coauthor (person)
- Nguyen — coauthor (person)
- Ortega — coauthor (person)
- Pacheco — coauthor (person)
- Papan — coauthor (person)
- Patel — coauthor (person)
- Pellerin — coauthor (person)
- Petrie-Norris — coauthor (person)
- Quirk-Silva — coauthor (person)
- Ramos — coauthor (person)
- Rivas — coauthor (person)
- Rogers — coauthor (person)
- Sanchez — coauthor (person)
- Schiavo — coauthor (person)
- Schultz — coauthor (person)
- Sharp-Collins — coauthor (person)
- Solache — coauthor (person)
- Soria — coauthor (person)
- Stefani — coauthor (person)
- Ta — coauthor (person)
- Tangipa — coauthor (person)
- Wallis — coauthor (person)
- Ward — coauthor (person)
- Wicks — coauthor (person)
- Wilson — coauthor (person)
- Zbur — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2026-01-12** Introduced. To print. `introduction`
- **2026-01-13** From printer.
- **2026-01-26** Referred to Com. on RLS. `referral-committee`
- **2026-01-26** From committee: Be adopted. Ordered to Third Reading. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (January 26). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, reading-1`
- **2026-01-29** Coauthors revised.
- **2026-01-29** Adopted and to Senate. (Page 3881.) `amendment-passage, passage`
- **2026-01-30** Introduced measure version corrected. `introduction`
- **2026-02-02** In Senate. To Com. on RLS.
- **2026-02-09** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on RLS. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2026-02-11** From committee: Ordered to third reading. `committee-passage`
- **2026-02-17** Ordered to special consent calendar.
- **2026-02-19** Adopted and to Assembly. (Ayes 35. Noes 0. Page 3430.) `amendment-passage, passage`
- **2026-02-19** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
- **2026-04-16** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 67. Noes 0. Page 4677.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-04-21** Enrolled and filed with the Secretary of State at 3 p.m.
- **2026-04-21** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Res. Chapter 33, Statutes of 2026. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7146617d-96f6-4ff9-8097-73fdd1cb5f6d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).