republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20212022/ajr-19.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relative to veterans."
description: "This measure would urge the federal government to implement and streamline the process for service members and veterans to become citizens immediately, halt deportations of veterans, and pardon all veterans who have been deported and bring them home."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20212022"
identifier: "AJR 19"
citation: "California AJR 19 (20212022)"
classification: ["joint resolution"]
subjects: ["Deported veterans."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Eduardo Garcia"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 13
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2021-08-30"
last_action: "2022-08-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8b72f4e2-236b-4484-a8a5-ab1eb510698f"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AJR19"
source_hash: "6e7e17e862b63fd55b44d46eed56df07cc90d1e3ff772aeca25509b5e9591720"
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 AJR 19 (20212022) — Relative to veterans.

This measure would urge the federal government to implement and streamline the process for service members and veterans to become citizens immediately, halt deportations of veterans, and pardon all veterans who have been deported and bring them home.

## Version chain

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

1. **08/30/21 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AJR19&version=20210AJR1999INT)
2. **08/19/22 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AJR19&version=20210AJR1997CHP)
3. **AJR19** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AJR19)
4. **08/09/22 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AJR19&version=20210AJR1998ENR)

## Votes

- Be adopted. To third reading. — **8–0** (pass) · lower
- AJR 19 Eduardo Garcia Assembly Third Reading — **76–0** (pass) · lower
- Consent Calendar AJR19 — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- Be adopted and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — **6–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Eduardo Garcia — primary (person)
- Aguiar-Curry — coauthor (person)
- Akilah Weber — coauthor (person)
- Arambula — coauthor (person)
- Bauer-Kahan — coauthor (person)
- Bennett — coauthor (person)
- Bigelow — coauthor (person)
- Blanca Rubio — coauthor (person)
- Bloom — coauthor (person)
- Boerner Horvath — coauthor (person)
- Bryan — coauthor (person)
- Calderon — coauthor (person)
- Carrillo — coauthor (person)
- Cervantes — coauthor (person)
- Chen — coauthor (person)
- Choi — coauthor (person)
- Cooley — coauthor (person)
- Cooper — coauthor (person)
- Cristina Garcia — coauthor (person)
- Cunningham — coauthor (person)
- Daly — coauthor (person)
- Davies — coauthor (person)
- Flora — coauthor (person)
- Friedman — coauthor (person)
- Gabriel — coauthor (person)
- Gallagher — coauthor (person)
- Gipson — coauthor (person)
- Gray — coauthor (person)
- Grayson — coauthor (person)
- Haney — coauthor (person)
- Holden — coauthor (person)
- Irwin — coauthor (person)
- Jones-Sawyer — coauthor (person)
- Kalra — coauthor (person)
- Lackey — coauthor (person)
- Lee — coauthor (person)
- Levine — 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)
- Mia Bonta — coauthor (person)
- Mike Fong — coauthor (person)
- Mullin — coauthor (person)
- Muratsuchi — coauthor (person)
- Nazarian — coauthor (person)
- Nguyen — 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)
- Smith — 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)
- Wilson — coauthor (person)
- Wood — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-08-30** Introduced. To print. `introduction`
- **2021-08-31** From printer.
- **2021-09-02** Referred to Com. on M. & V.A. `referral-committee`
- **2022-04-06** From committee: Be adopted. Ordered to Third Reading. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (April 5). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, reading-1`
- **2022-05-26** Coauthors revised.
- **2022-05-26** Adopted and to Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0.) `amendment-passage, passage`
- **2022-05-27** In Senate. To Com. on RLS.
- **2022-06-08** Referred to Com. on M. & V.A. `referral-committee`
- **2022-06-29** From committee: Be adopted. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 28). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-08-08** Adopted and to Assembly. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 4679.) `amendment-passage, passage`
- **2022-08-08** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2022-08-19** Enrolled and filed with the Secretary of State at 2 p.m.
- **2022-08-19** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Res. Chapter 144, 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/8b72f4e2-236b-4484-a8a5-ab1eb510698f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).