republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20232024/sjr-6.md

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Bill	Don't Ask, Don't Tell: discharge characterizations.	This measure would urge the President and the Congress of the United States to address, with effective policies, the issue of servicemembers who were unjustly discharged under "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" or predecessor provisions, in order to unify efforts to upgrade discharges issued under the DADT policy, and to restore benefits.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20232024	SJR 6	California SJR 6 (20232024)	joint resolution	Don't Ask Don't Tell discharge characterizations	enacted	Caballero	5	14	4	2023-06-29	2024-08-21	openstates	ocd-bill/ac6bf117-63f5-48c6-8ebd-250f383a4da6	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SJR6	ee60fb7f559db5967054f0c793d20c57d62f73e73504dc04be599604d1c29c38	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SJR 6 (20232024) — Don't Ask, Don't Tell: discharge characterizations.

This measure would urge the President and the Congress of the United States to address, with effective policies, the issue of servicemembers who were unjustly discharged under "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" or predecessor provisions, in order to unify efforts to upgrade discharges issued under the DADT policy, and to restore benefits.

Version chain

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

1. 06/29/23 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/01/24 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 08/21/24 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
4. SJR6 (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/16/24 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Be adopted. Ordered to third reading — 4–0 (pass) · upper
• SJR 6 Caballero Senate Third Reading By Ward — 62–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading SJR6 Caballero et al. — 29–0 (pass) · upper
• Be adopted. To third reading. — 7–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Caballero — primary (person)
• Addis — coauthor (person)
• Alvarado-Gil — coauthor (person)
• Atkins — principal coauthor (person)
• Becker — coauthor (person)
• Bradford — coauthor (person)
• Cervantes — principal coauthor (person)
• Durazo — coauthor (person)
• Eggman — author (person)
• Jackson — principal coauthor (person)
• Juan Carrillo — coauthor (person)
• Laird — principal coauthor (person)
• Lee — principal coauthor (person)
• Limón — coauthor (person)
• Low — principal coauthor (person)
• McKinnor — coauthor (person)
• Menjivar — author (person)
• Newman — coauthor (person)
• Padilla — principal coauthor (person)
• Quirk-Silva — coauthor (person)
• Rubio — coauthor (person)
• Stern — coauthor (person)
• Umberg — coauthor (person)
• Ward — principal coauthor (person)
• Wiener — principal coauthor (person)
• Zbur — principal coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-06-29 Introduced. Referred to Com. on RLS. introduction, referral-committee
• 2023-07-12 Re-referred to Com. on M. & V.A. referral-committee
• 2024-04-01 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on M. & V.A. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2024-04-12 Set for hearing April 22.
• 2024-04-23 From committee: Be adopted. Ordered to third reading. (Ayes 4. Noes 0. Page 3704.) (April 22). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-06-03 Read. Adopted. (Ayes 29. Noes 0. Page 4289.) Ordered to the Assembly. amendment-passage, passage, reading-1
• 2024-06-03 In Assembly. Held at Desk.
• 2024-06-10 Referred to Com. on M. & V.A. referral-committee
• 2024-06-26 Coauthors revised.
• 2024-06-26 From committee: Be adopted. Ordered to third reading. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 25). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-08-15 Read. Adopted. (Ayes 62. Noes 0. Page 6311.) Ordered to the Senate. amendment-passage, passage, reading-1
• 2024-08-15 In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
• 2024-08-21 Enrolled and filed with the Secretary of State at 2 p.m.
• 2024-08-21 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Res. Chapter 173, Statutes of 2024. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/ac6bf117-63f5-48c6-8ebd-250f383a4da6. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).