republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20212022/acr-20.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relative to Financial Aid Awareness Month."
description: "This measure would proclaim the month of February 2021 as Financial Aid Awareness Month. The measure would urge the Legislature to use its institutional role and resources to raise awareness of the importance of student financial aid and mobilize efforts to increase completion rates of financial aid applications to maximize the state's investment in its students, especially low-income and first-generation students."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20212022"
identifier: "ACR 20"
citation: "California ACR 20 (20212022)"
classification: ["concurrent resolution"]
subjects: ["Financial Aid Awareness Month."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Medina"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-02-04"
last_action: "2021-04-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/eec9fb2f-ca65-4658-a23e-b9bfe787d5dd"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220ACR20"
source_hash: "6aa8976d240829a77bd9533b147fb615293c55249d826bb72f9893a68dc7fb94"
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 20 (20212022) — Relative to Financial Aid Awareness Month.

This measure would proclaim the month of February 2021 as Financial Aid Awareness Month. The measure would urge the Legislature to use its institutional role and resources to raise awareness of the importance of student financial aid and mobilize efforts to increase completion rates of financial aid applications to maximize the state's investment in its students, especially low-income and first-generation students.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/04/21 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220ACR20&version=20210ACR2099INT)
2. **04/07/21 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220ACR20&version=20210ACR2097CHP)
3. **ACR20** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220ACR20)
4. **03/26/21 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220ACR20&version=20210ACR2098ENR)

## Votes

- Be adopted. To third reading. — **11–0** (pass) · lower
- Special Consent ACR20 — **38–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Medina — primary (person)
- Aguiar-Curry — coauthor (person)
- Bauer-Kahan — coauthor (person)
- Bennett — coauthor (person)
- Berman — coauthor (person)
- Bloom — coauthor (person)
- Boerner Horvath — coauthor (person)
- Bonta — coauthor (person)
- Burke — coauthor (person)
- Calderon — coauthor (person)
- Carrillo — coauthor (person)
- Cervantes — coauthor (person)
- Chau — coauthor (person)
- Chiu — coauthor (person)
- Choi — coauthor (person)
- Cooley — coauthor (person)
- Cooper — coauthor (person)
- Cristina Garcia — coauthor (person)
- Cunningham — coauthor (person)
- Davies — coauthor (person)
- Flora — coauthor (person)
- Fong — coauthor (person)
- Friedman — coauthor (person)
- Gabriel — coauthor (person)
- Gipson — coauthor (person)
- Grayson — coauthor (person)
- Holden — coauthor (person)
- Irwin — coauthor (person)
- Jones-Sawyer — coauthor (person)
- Kalra — coauthor (person)
- Kiley — coauthor (person)
- Lackey — coauthor (person)
- Lee — coauthor (person)
- Levine — coauthor (person)
- Lorena Gonzalez — coauthor (person)
- Low — coauthor (person)
- Luz Rivas — coauthor (person)
- Maienschein — coauthor (person)
- Mathis — coauthor (person)
- Mayes — coauthor (person)
- McCarty — author (person)
- Megan Dahle — coauthor (person)
- Mullin — coauthor (person)
- Muratsuchi — coauthor (person)
- Nazarian — coauthor (person)
- Nguyen — coauthor (person)
- O'Donnell — coauthor (person)
- Petrie-Norris — coauthor (person)
- Quirk-Silva — coauthor (person)
- Rendon — coauthor (person)
- Reyes — coauthor (person)
- Robert Rivas — coauthor (person)
- Rodriguez — coauthor (person)
- Salas — coauthor (person)
- Santiago — coauthor (person)
- Seyarto — coauthor (person)
- Smith — coauthor (person)
- Stone — coauthor (person)
- Valladares — coauthor (person)
- Villapudua — coauthor (person)
- Voepel — coauthor (person)
- Waldron — coauthor (person)
- Ward — coauthor (person)
- Wicks — coauthor (person)
- Wood — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-02-04** Introduced. To print. `introduction`
- **2021-02-05** From printer.
- **2021-02-12** Referred to Com. on RLS. `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-12** From committee: Be adopted. Ordered to Third Reading. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (February 12). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, reading-1`
- **2021-02-18** Coauthors revised.
- **2021-02-18** Adopted and to Senate. (Page 363.) `amendment-passage, passage`
- **2021-02-22** In Senate. To Com. on RLS.
- **2021-03-03** From committee: Ordered to third reading. `committee-passage`
- **2021-03-23** Ordered to special consent calendar.
- **2021-03-25** Adopted and to Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0.) `amendment-passage, passage`
- **2021-03-25** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2021-04-07** Enrolled and filed with the Secretary of State at 2 p.m.
- **2021-04-07** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Res. Chapter 11, Statutes of 2021. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/eec9fb2f-ca65-4658-a23e-b9bfe787d5dd`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).