republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20212022/scr-40.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relative to Arts, Culture, and Creativity Month."
description: "This measure would declare that the Legislature joins Californians throughout the state in celebration of 2021 Arts, Culture, and Creativity Month and would recognize the significant role of artists as \"Second Responders\" in our state."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20212022"
identifier: "SCR 40"
citation: "California SCR 40 (20212022)"
classification: ["concurrent resolution"]
subjects: ["Arts", "Culture", "and Creativity Month."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Allen"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 11
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2021-04-26"
last_action: "2021-07-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/de91014f-e4de-4d0c-b5a2-9bd4d3ec2d5a"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SCR40"
source_hash: "7c9a88b492afc7ac69017fc3f89f7217902b4b93f1430e2631674bea4d4292b7"
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 SCR 40 (20212022) — Relative to Arts, Culture, and Creativity Month.

This measure would declare that the Legislature joins Californians throughout the state in celebration of 2021 Arts, Culture, and Creativity Month and would recognize the significant role of artists as "Second Responders" in our state.

## 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=202120220SCR40&version=20210SCR4099INT)
2. **07/09/21 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SCR40&version=20210SCR4097CHP)
3. **SCR40** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SCR40)
4. **07/07/21 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SCR40&version=20210SCR4098ENR)

## Votes

- SCR 40 Allen Consent Calendar Second Day — **77–0** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- Be adopted. To Consent Calendar. — **11–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Allen — primary (person)
- Aguiar-Curry — coauthor (person)
- Akilah Weber — coauthor (person)
- Arambula — coauthor (person)
- Bauer-Kahan — coauthor (person)
- Bennett — coauthor (person)
- Berman — coauthor (person)
- Bigelow — coauthor (person)
- Blanca Rubio — coauthor (person)
- Bloom — coauthor (person)
- Boerner Horvath — coauthor (person)
- Burke — coauthor (person)
- Calderon — coauthor (person)
- Carrillo — coauthor (person)
- Cervantes — 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)
- Gallagher — 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)
- 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)
- Megan Dahle — coauthor (person)
- Mullin — coauthor (person)
- Muratsuchi — coauthor (person)
- Nazarian — coauthor (person)
- Nguyen — 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)
- 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 — coauthor (person)
- Wicks — coauthor (person)
- Wood — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-04-26** Introduced. Referred to Com. on RLS. `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2021-05-05** From committee: Ordered to third reading. `committee-passage`
- **2021-05-10** Read. Adopted. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 1058.) Ordered to the Assembly. `amendment-passage, passage, reading-1`
- **2021-05-10** In Assembly. Held at Desk.
- **2021-05-28** Referred to Com. on RLS. `referral-committee`
- **2021-06-24** From committee: Be adopted. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (June 24). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-07-01** Coauthors revised.
- **2021-07-01** Read. Adopted. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 2209.) Ordered to the Senate. `amendment-passage, passage, reading-1`
- **2021-07-05** In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
- **2021-07-09** Enrolled and filed with the Secretary of State at 11 a.m.
- **2021-07-09** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Res. Chapter 69, 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/de91014f-e4de-4d0c-b5a2-9bd4d3ec2d5a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).