republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20212022/acr-77.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relative to Sea Level Rise Awareness Month."
description: "This measure would proclaim May 2021 as Sea Level Rise Awareness Month in California in order to recognize the devastating effects of climate change and encourage local governments to take action."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20212022"
identifier: "ACR 77"
citation: "California ACR 77 (20212022)"
classification: ["concurrent resolution"]
subjects: ["Sea Level Rise Awareness Month."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bennett"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 14
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2021-04-26"
last_action: "2021-09-17"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9c434184-40a0-4f22-939a-4a27526e3308"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220ACR77"
source_hash: "bcadad28b8bc163be51e2286be113194a7ac44c1bc8af787f56a6c915c79146b"
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 77 (20212022) — Relative to Sea Level Rise Awareness Month.

This measure would proclaim May 2021 as Sea Level Rise Awareness Month in California in order to recognize the devastating effects of climate change and encourage local governments to take action.

## Version chain

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

1. **04/26/21 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220ACR77&version=20210ACR7799INT)
2. **09/17/21 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220ACR77&version=20210ACR7797CHP)
3. **ACR77** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220ACR77)
4. **09/07/21 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220ACR77&version=20210ACR7798ENR)

## Votes

- 3rd Reading ACR77 Bennett et al. By Allen — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- ACR 77 Bennett Consent Calendar Second Day — **75–0** (pass) · lower
- Be adopted. To Consent Calendar. — **11–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Bennett — primary (person)
- Aguiar-Curry — coauthor (person)
- Akilah Weber — coauthor (person)
- Arambula — coauthor (person)
- Bauer-Kahan — coauthor (person)
- Berman — coauthor (person)
- Bigelow — coauthor (person)
- Blanca Rubio — coauthor (person)
- Bloom — coauthor (person)
- Boerner Horvath — principal coauthor (person)
- Burke — coauthor (person)
- Calderon — coauthor (person)
- Carrillo — coauthor (person)
- Chau — coauthor (person)
- Chen — coauthor (person)
- Chiu — coauthor (person)
- Choi — coauthor (person)
- Cooley — coauthor (person)
- Cooper — coauthor (person)
- Cristina Garcia — coauthor (person)
- Cunningham — coauthor (person)
- Daly — coauthor (person)
- Davies — coauthor (person)
- Eduardo Garcia — coauthor (person)
- Flora — coauthor (person)
- Fong — coauthor (person)
- Frazier — coauthor (person)
- Friedman — coauthor (person)
- Gabriel — coauthor (person)
- Gipson — coauthor (person)
- Gray — coauthor (person)
- Grayson — coauthor (person)
- Holden — coauthor (person)
- Irwin — coauthor (person)
- Jones-Sawyer — coauthor (person)
- Kalra — coauthor (person)
- Kiley — coauthor (person)
- Lackey — 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 — coauthor (person)
- Medina — coauthor (person)
- Megan Dahle — coauthor (person)
- Mullin — principal coauthor (person)
- Muratsuchi — coauthor (person)
- Nazarian — coauthor (person)
- Nguyen — coauthor (person)
- O'Donnell — coauthor (person)
- Patterson — coauthor (person)
- Petrie-Norris — principal coauthor (person)
- Quirk — principal 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)
- Smith — coauthor (person)
- Stone — coauthor (person)
- Ting — coauthor (person)
- Valladares — coauthor (person)
- Villapudua — coauthor (person)
- Voepel — coauthor (person)
- Waldron — coauthor (person)
- Ward — principal coauthor (person)
- Wicks — coauthor (person)
- Wood — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-04-26** Introduced. To print. `introduction`
- **2021-04-27** From printer.
- **2021-04-29** Referred to Com. on RLS. `referral-committee`
- **2021-05-06** Coauthors revised.
- **2021-05-06** From committee: Be adopted. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (May 6). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-05-13** Coauthors revised.
- **2021-05-13** Adopted and to Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 1412.) `amendment-passage, passage`
- **2021-05-17** In Senate. To Com. on RLS.
- **2021-05-19** Measure version as revised on May 13 corrected.
- **2021-05-26** From committee: Ordered to third reading. `committee-passage`
- **2021-09-02** Adopted and to Assembly. (Ayes 35. Noes 0. Page 2358.) `amendment-passage, passage`
- **2021-09-02** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2021-09-17** Enrolled and filed with the Secretary of State at 10:30 a.m.
- **2021-09-17** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Res. Chapter 139, 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/9c434184-40a0-4f22-939a-4a27526e3308`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).