republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20212022/scr-56.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relative to blood cancer and blood donation awareness."
description: "This measure would designate the month of September 2021 as Leukemia, Lymphoma, and Myeloma Awareness Month and Blood Cancer Awareness Month and the first week of September 2021 as Blood Donation Week."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20212022"
identifier: "SCR 56"
citation: "California SCR 56 (20212022)"
classification: ["concurrent resolution"]
subjects: ["Blood cancer and blood donation awareness."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Melendez"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 11
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2021-08-16"
last_action: "2021-09-17"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4e4952be-dfc1-4924-9ccf-7c33a308adb8"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SCR56"
source_hash: "eacc1d3a89838270b849a9e0aa01a7a0cec9dc379fdc1098a3e91902d97cec7e"
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 56 (20212022) — Relative to blood cancer and blood donation awareness.

This measure would designate the month of September 2021 as Leukemia, Lymphoma, and Myeloma Awareness Month and Blood Cancer Awareness Month and the first week of September 2021 as Blood Donation Week.

## Version chain

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

1. **08/16/21 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SCR56&version=20210SCR5699INT)
2. **09/17/21 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SCR56&version=20210SCR5697CHP)
3. **SCR56** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SCR56)
4. **09/10/21 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SCR56&version=20210SCR5698ENR)

## Votes

- 3rd Reading SCR56 Melendez et al. — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Be adopted. To Consent Calendar. — **10–0** (pass) · lower
- SCR 56 Melendez Consent Calendar Second Day — **73–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Melendez — primary (person)
- Aguiar-Curry — coauthor (person)
- Akilah Weber — coauthor (person)
- Arambula — coauthor (person)
- Bennett — coauthor (person)
- Berman — coauthor (person)
- Bigelow — coauthor (person)
- Blanca Rubio — coauthor (person)
- Boerner Horvath — coauthor (person)
- Bryan — 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)
- Davies — coauthor (person)
- Eduardo Garcia — coauthor (person)
- Flora — coauthor (person)
- Fong — coauthor (person)
- Frazier — coauthor (person)
- Friedman — coauthor (person)
- Gallagher — coauthor (person)
- Gipson — coauthor (person)
- Holden — coauthor (person)
- Irwin — coauthor (person)
- Jones-Sawyer — coauthor (person)
- Kalra — coauthor (person)
- Kiley — coauthor (person)
- Lackey — 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)
- Mullin — coauthor (person)
- Muratsuchi — coauthor (person)
- Nazarian — coauthor (person)
- O'Donnell — coauthor (person)
- Ochoa Bogh — coauthor (person)
- Patterson — coauthor (person)
- Petrie-Norris — coauthor (person)
- Quirk — coauthor (person)
- Quirk-Silva — coauthor (person)
- Ramos — 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)
- Wood — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-08-16** Introduced. Referred to Com. on RLS. `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2021-08-25** From committee: Ordered to third reading. `committee-passage`
- **2021-09-01** Read. Adopted. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2306.) Ordered to the Assembly. `amendment-passage, passage, reading-1`
- **2021-09-01** In Assembly. Held at Desk.
- **2021-09-02** Referred to Com. on RLS. `referral-committee`
- **2021-09-02** From committee: Be adopted. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (September 2). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-09-07** Coauthors revised.
- **2021-09-07** Read. Adopted. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 2855.) Ordered to the Senate. `amendment-passage, passage, reading-1`
- **2021-09-08** In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
- **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 144, 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/4e4952be-dfc1-4924-9ccf-7c33a308adb8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).