republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20212022/acr-44.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relative to Women's Small Business Month."
description: "This measure would designate the month of October 2021 as Women's Small Business Month and encourage all citizens to recognize the economic importance of women's small businesses in California."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20212022"
identifier: "ACR 44"
citation: "California ACR 44 (20212022)"
classification: ["concurrent resolution"]
subjects: ["Women's Small Business Month."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Boerner Horvath"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 13
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2021-03-10"
last_action: "2022-02-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c0aa955f-5ef3-459a-baf7-01ceabfeda42"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220ACR44"
source_hash: "0a9460d759289e96e89de324709742009df4ad92b14cfd690f5136e6f91c1e67"
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 44 (20212022) — Relative to Women's Small Business Month.

This measure would designate the month of October 2021 as Women's Small Business Month and encourage all citizens to recognize the economic importance of women's small businesses in California.

## Version chain

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

1. **03/10/21 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220ACR44&version=20210ACR4499INT)
2. **02/22/22 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220ACR44&version=20210ACR4497CHP)
3. **ACR44** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220ACR44)
4. **02/14/22 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220ACR44&version=20210ACR4498ENR)

## Votes

- Be adopted. To Consent Calendar. — **11–0** (pass) · lower
- Special Consent ACR44 — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- ACR 44 Boerner Horvath Consent Calendar Second Day — **73–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Boerner Horvath — primary (person)
- Aguiar-Curry — coauthor (person)
- Akilah Weber — coauthor (person)
- Arambula — coauthor (person)
- Bauer-Kahan — coauthor (person)
- Bigelow — coauthor (person)
- Blanca Rubio — coauthor (person)
- Bloom — coauthor (person)
- Bryan — 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)
- Eduardo Garcia — coauthor (person)
- Flora — coauthor (person)
- Fong — coauthor (person)
- Frazier — coauthor (person)
- Friedman — coauthor (person)
- Gabriel — coauthor (person)
- Gallagher — coauthor (person)
- Gipson — coauthor (person)
- Gray — coauthor (person)
- Holden — coauthor (person)
- Irwin — coauthor (person)
- Jones-Sawyer — coauthor (person)
- Kalra — coauthor (person)
- Lackey — coauthor (person)
- Levine — coauthor (person)
- Lorena Gonzalez — coauthor (person)
- Luz Rivas — coauthor (person)
- Maienschein — coauthor (person)
- Mathis — coauthor (person)
- Mayes — coauthor (person)
- Medina — coauthor (person)
- Megan Dahle — coauthor (person)
- Mullin — coauthor (person)
- Muratsuchi — coauthor (person)
- Nazarian — 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)
- Santiago — coauthor (person)
- Seyarto — coauthor (person)
- Stone — coauthor (person)
- Ting — 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.

- **2021-03-10** Introduced. To print. `introduction`
- **2021-03-11** From printer.
- **2021-03-18** Referred to Com. on RLS. `referral-committee`
- **2021-08-19** From committee: Be adopted. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (August 19). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-08-26** Coauthors revised.
- **2021-08-26** Adopted and to Senate. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 2517.) `amendment-passage, passage`
- **2021-08-30** 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 2896.) `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 2, 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/c0aa955f-5ef3-459a-baf7-01ceabfeda42`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).