republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20212022/scr-47.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relative to Sugihara Visas Day."
description: "This measure would designate July 29, 2021, as Sugihara Visas Day to memorialize the great achievements of Sugihara Chiune in saving thousands of Jewish lives during World War II."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20212022"
identifier: "SCR 47"
citation: "California SCR 47 (20212022)"
classification: ["concurrent resolution"]
subjects: ["Sugihara Visas Day."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hertzberg"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 12
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2021-05-12"
last_action: "2021-07-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4ba284a3-26c4-440e-9f85-93e676103dac"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SCR47"
source_hash: "00d360f3f5902677dfca98c1854dc34f0e91c40f751532c7a5e362732218f00a"
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 47 (20212022) — Relative to Sugihara Visas Day.

This measure would designate July 29, 2021, as Sugihara Visas Day to memorialize the great achievements of Sugihara Chiune in saving thousands of Jewish lives during World War II.

## Version chain

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

1. **05/12/21 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SCR47&version=20210SCR4799INT)
2. **07/20/21 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SCR47&version=20210SCR4797CHP)
3. **SCR47** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SCR47)
4. **07/19/21 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SCR47&version=20210SCR4798ENR)

## Votes

- Be adopted. To Consent Calendar. — **10–0** (pass) · lower
- SCR 47 Hertzberg Consent Calendar Second Day — **70–0** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading SCR47 Hertzberg et al. — **38–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Hertzberg — primary (person)
- Aguiar-Curry — coauthor (person)
- Akilah Weber — coauthor (person)
- Arambula — coauthor (person)
- Bauer-Kahan — coauthor (person)
- Becker — coauthor (person)
- Bennett — coauthor (person)
- Berman — 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- Glazer — coauthor (person)
- Gray — coauthor (person)
- Grayson — coauthor (person)
- Holden — coauthor (person)
- Irwin — coauthor (person)
- Jones-Sawyer — coauthor (person)
- Kalra — coauthor (person)
- Lackey — coauthor (person)
- Levine — coauthor (person)
- Low — coauthor (person)
- Luz Rivas — coauthor (person)
- Mathis — coauthor (person)
- Mayes — coauthor (person)
- McCarty — coauthor (person)
- Medina — coauthor (person)
- Megan Dahle — coauthor (person)
- Min — coauthor (person)
- Mullin — coauthor (person)
- Muratsuchi — principal coauthor (person)
- Nazarian — coauthor (person)
- Pan — 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)
- Stern — 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)
- Wiener — coauthor (person)
- Wood — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-05-12** Introduced. Referred to Com. on RLS. `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2021-05-19** From committee: Ordered to third reading. `committee-passage`
- **2021-06-10** Read. Adopted. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 1470.) Ordered to the Assembly. `amendment-passage, passage, reading-1`
- **2021-06-10** In Assembly. Held at Desk.
- **2021-06-17** Referred to Com. on RLS. `referral-committee`
- **2021-07-08** Coauthors revised.
- **2021-07-08** From committee: Be adopted. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (July 8). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-07-15** Coauthors revised.
- **2021-07-15** Read. Adopted. (Ayes 70. Noes 0. Page 2376.) Ordered to the Senate. `amendment-passage, passage, reading-1`
- **2021-07-15** In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
- **2021-07-20** Enrolled and filed with the Secretary of State at 3:30 p.m.
- **2021-07-20** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Res. Chapter 101, 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/4ba284a3-26c4-440e-9f85-93e676103dac`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).