republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20212022/ajr-4.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relative to the Basel Convention."
description: "This measure would declare California to be in favor of the United States' ratification of the Basel Convention at the earliest opportunity and would request the Biden Administration to accomplish this ratification as a matter of urgency."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20212022"
identifier: "AJR 4"
citation: "California AJR 4 (20212022)"
classification: ["joint resolution"]
subjects: ["Basel Convention: ratification."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Cristina Garcia"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 13
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2021-01-12"
last_action: "2021-07-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b8b45193-adc9-4bf4-b34c-9ff9b04c11ca"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AJR4"
source_hash: "25fdcf5a1ec2e2dce9841a267733b6033d36f813db89cf42c03392e56e65b743"
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 4 (20212022) — Relative to the Basel Convention.

This measure would declare California to be in favor of the United States' ratification of the Basel Convention at the earliest opportunity and would request the Biden Administration to accomplish this ratification as a matter of urgency.

## Version chain

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

1. **01/12/21 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AJR4&version=20210AJR499INT)
2. **07/15/21 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AJR4&version=20210AJR497CHP)
3. **AJR4** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AJR4)
4. **07/06/21 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AJR4&version=20210AJR498ENR)

## Votes

- Be adopted. Ordered to third reading — **5–0** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading AJR4 Cristina Garcia et a By Stern — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- AJR 4 Cristina Garcia Assembly Third Reading — **60–0** (pass) · lower
- Be adopted. To third reading. — **9–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Cristina Garcia — primary (person)
- Aguiar-Curry — coauthor (person)
- Allen — 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)
- Bonta — coauthor (person)
- Burke — coauthor (person)
- Calderon — coauthor (person)
- Carrillo — coauthor (person)
- Cervantes — coauthor (person)
- Chau — coauthor (person)
- Chen — coauthor (person)
- Chiu — coauthor (person)
- Cooley — coauthor (person)
- Cooper — coauthor (person)
- Cunningham — coauthor (person)
- Eduardo Garcia — coauthor (person)
- Eggman — coauthor (person)
- Frazier — coauthor (person)
- Friedman — coauthor (person)
- Gabriel — coauthor (person)
- Gipson — coauthor (person)
- Gray — coauthor (person)
- Holden — coauthor (person)
- Irwin — coauthor (person)
- Jones-Sawyer — coauthor (person)
- Kalra — 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 — coauthor (person)
- Medina — coauthor (person)
- Muratsuchi — coauthor (person)
- Nazarian — coauthor (person)
- O'Donnell — 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)
- Santiago — coauthor (person)
- Stern — coauthor (person)
- Stone — coauthor (person)
- Ting — coauthor (person)
- Villapudua — coauthor (person)
- Voepel — coauthor (person)
- Ward — coauthor (person)
- Wieckowski — coauthor (person)
- Wiener — coauthor (person)
- Wood — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-12** Introduced. To print. `introduction`
- **2021-01-13** From printer.
- **2021-01-28** Referred to Com. on NAT. RES. `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-25** From committee: Be adopted. Ordered to Third Reading. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (March 24). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, reading-1`
- **2021-04-05** Coauthors revised.
- **2021-04-05** Adopted and to Senate. (Ayes 60. Noes 0. Page 861.) `amendment-passage, passage`
- **2021-04-06** In Senate. To Com. on RLS.
- **2021-04-28** Referred to Com. on E.Q. `referral-committee`
- **2021-06-14** From committee: Be adopted. Ordered to Third Reading. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 14). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, reading-1`
- **2021-07-05** Adopted and to Assembly. (Ayes 34. Noes 0. Page 1802.) `amendment-passage, passage`
- **2021-07-05** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2021-07-15** Enrolled and filed with the Secretary of State at 11 a.m.
- **2021-07-15** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Res. Chapter 77, 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/b8b45193-adc9-4bf4-b34c-9ff9b04c11ca`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).