republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20212022/acr-117.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relative to Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr."
description: "This measure would, among other things, honor the late civil rights pioneer and icon Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and commemorate Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20212022"
identifier: "ACR 117"
citation: "California ACR 117 (20212022)"
classification: ["concurrent resolution"]
subjects: ["Dr. Martin Luther King", "Jr. Day."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Holden"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2022-01-03"
last_action: "2022-02-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fd5fffb3-daf5-4c3a-b524-93bec0af4276"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220ACR117"
source_hash: "661c95339febe500440d12eea93982fb67b098ffbd5b0989fc5ac32a17442bbf"
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 117 (20212022) — Relative to Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

This measure would, among other things, honor the late civil rights pioneer and icon 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. **01/03/22 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220ACR117&version=20210ACR11799INT)
2. **02/22/22 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220ACR117&version=20210ACR11797CHP)
3. **ACR117** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220ACR117)
4. **02/14/22 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220ACR117&version=20210ACR11798ENR)

## Votes

- Special Consent ACR117 — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- Be adopted. To third reading. — **11–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Holden — primary (person)
- Aguiar-Curry — coauthor (person)
- Akilah Weber — coauthor (person)
- Arambula — coauthor (person)
- Bauer-Kahan — coauthor (person)
- Bennett — coauthor (person)
- Berman — coauthor (person)
- Blanca Rubio — coauthor (person)
- Bloom — coauthor (person)
- Boerner Horvath — coauthor (person)
- Bradford — coauthor (person)
- Bryan — coauthor (person)
- Burke — coauthor (person)
- Calderon — coauthor (person)
- Carrillo — coauthor (person)
- Cervantes — coauthor (person)
- Choi — coauthor (person)
- Cooley — coauthor (person)
- Cooper — coauthor (person)
- Cristina Garcia — coauthor (person)
- Daly — coauthor (person)
- Davies — coauthor (person)
- Eduardo Garcia — coauthor (person)
- Flora — coauthor (person)
- Fong — coauthor (person)
- Gabriel — coauthor (person)
- Gallagher — coauthor (person)
- Gipson — coauthor (person)
- Gray — coauthor (person)
- Grayson — coauthor (person)
- Irwin — coauthor (person)
- Jones-Sawyer — coauthor (person)
- Kalra — coauthor (person)
- Kamlager — coauthor (person)
- Kiley — coauthor (person)
- Lackey — coauthor (person)
- Lee — coauthor (person)
- Levine — coauthor (person)
- Low — coauthor (person)
- Luz Rivas — coauthor (person)
- Maienschein — coauthor (person)
- Mathis — coauthor (person)
- McCarty — coauthor (person)
- Medina — coauthor (person)
- Mia Bonta — coauthor (person)
- Mullin — coauthor (person)
- Muratsuchi — coauthor (person)
- Nazarian — coauthor (person)
- Nguyen — coauthor (person)
- O'Donnell — coauthor (person)
- Patterson — coauthor (person)
- Petrie-Norris — coauthor (person)
- Quirk — coauthor (person)
- Quirk-Silva — coauthor (person)
- Ramos — coauthor (person)
- Rendon — coauthor (person)
- Reyes — coauthor (person)
- Robert Rivas — coauthor (person)
- Rodriguez — coauthor (person)
- Salas — coauthor (person)
- Seyarto — coauthor (person)
- Smith — coauthor (person)
- Stone — coauthor (person)
- Ting — coauthor (person)
- Valladares — coauthor (person)
- Villapudua — coauthor (person)
- Waldron — coauthor (person)
- Ward — coauthor (person)
- Wicks — coauthor (person)
- Wood — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-03** Introduced. To print. `introduction`
- **2022-01-04** From printer.
- **2022-01-06** Referred to Com. on RLS. `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-06** From committee: Be adopted. Ordered to Third Reading. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (January 6). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, reading-1`
- **2022-01-14** Coauthors revised.
- **2022-01-14** Adopted and to Senate. (Page 3306.) `amendment-passage, passage`
- **2022-01-18** In Senate. To Com. on RLS.
- **2022-02-02** From committee: Ordered to third reading. `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-08** Ordered to special consent calendar.
- **2022-02-10** Adopted and to Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 2897.) `amendment-passage, passage`
- **2022-02-10** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-22** Enrolled and filed with the Secretary of State at 3 p.m.
- **2022-02-22** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Res. Chapter 13, Statutes of 2022. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/fd5fffb3-daf5-4c3a-b524-93bec0af4276`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).