republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20232024/acr-148.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "California Down Syndrome Awareness Week and Day."
description: "This measure would proclaim the week of March 17, 2024, to March 23, 2024, inclusive as California Down Syndrome Awareness Week and March 21, 2024, as California Down Syndrome Day, and would encourage all Californians to support and participate in related activities."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20232024"
identifier: "ACR 148"
citation: "California ACR 148 (20232024)"
classification: ["concurrent resolution"]
subjects: ["California Down Syndrome Awareness Week and Day"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Joe Patterson"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-02-21"
last_action: "2024-04-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b88bdf90-c6cc-4f22-b07f-ec0e76c9d3af"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240ACR148"
source_hash: "8d8cb55341643be04dad7e3301dbfa07b10d421ee48b50c04bf805d1053a22d9"
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 ACR 148 (20232024) — California Down Syndrome Awareness Week and Day.

This measure would proclaim the week of March 17, 2024, to March 23, 2024, inclusive as California Down Syndrome Awareness Week and March 21, 2024, as California Down Syndrome Day, and would encourage all Californians to support and participate in related activities.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/21/24 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240ACR148&version=20230ACR14899INT)
2. **04/19/24 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240ACR148&version=20230ACR14897CHP)
3. **ACR148** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240ACR148)
4. **04/18/24 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240ACR148&version=20230ACR14898ENR)

## Votes

- Be adopted. To third reading. — **8–0** (pass) · lower
- Special Consent ACR148 Joe Patterson et al. — **39–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Joe Patterson — primary (person)
- Addis — coauthor (person)
- Aguiar-Curry — coauthor (person)
- Alanis — coauthor (person)
- Alvarez — coauthor (person)
- Bains — coauthor (person)
- Bauer-Kahan — coauthor (person)
- Bennett — coauthor (person)
- Berman — coauthor (person)
- Blanca Rubio — coauthor (person)
- Boerner — coauthor (person)
- Bonta — coauthor (person)
- Bryan — coauthor (person)
- Calderon — coauthor (person)
- Cervantes — coauthor (person)
- Chen — coauthor (person)
- Connolly — coauthor (person)
- Dixon — coauthor (person)
- Flora — coauthor (person)
- Friedman — coauthor (person)
- Gabriel — coauthor (person)
- Gallagher — coauthor (person)
- Garcia — coauthor (person)
- Gipson — coauthor (person)
- Grayson — author (person)
- Haney — coauthor (person)
- Holden — coauthor (person)
- Hoover — coauthor (person)
- Jackson — coauthor (person)
- Jim Patterson — coauthor (person)
- Jones-Sawyer — coauthor (person)
- Juan Carrillo — coauthor (person)
- Kalra — coauthor (person)
- Lackey — coauthor (person)
- Low — coauthor (person)
- Lowenthal — coauthor (person)
- Luz Rivas — coauthor (person)
- Maienschein — coauthor (person)
- McCarty — coauthor (person)
- McKinnor — coauthor (person)
- Mike Fong — coauthor (person)
- Muratsuchi — coauthor (person)
- Ortega — coauthor (person)
- Pacheco — coauthor (person)
- Papan — coauthor (person)
- Pellerin — coauthor (person)
- Petrie-Norris — coauthor (person)
- Quirk-Silva — coauthor (person)
- Ramos — coauthor (person)
- Reyes — coauthor (person)
- Robert Rivas — coauthor (person)
- Rodriguez — coauthor (person)
- Sanchez — coauthor (person)
- Santiago — coauthor (person)
- Schiavo — coauthor (person)
- Soria — coauthor (person)
- Stephanie Nguyen — coauthor (person)
- Ta — coauthor (person)
- Ting — coauthor (person)
- Valencia — coauthor (person)
- Vince Fong — coauthor (person)
- Waldron — coauthor (person)
- Wallis — coauthor (person)
- Ward — coauthor (person)
- Wicks — coauthor (person)
- Wilson — coauthor (person)
- Wood — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-02-21** Introduced. To print. `introduction`
- **2024-02-22** From printer.
- **2024-02-26** Referred to Com. on RLS. `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-04** From committee: Be adopted. Ordered to Third Reading. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (March 4). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, reading-1`
- **2024-03-21** Coauthors revised.
- **2024-03-21** Adopted and to Senate. (Page 4474.) `amendment-passage, passage`
- **2024-04-01** In Senate. To Com. on RLS.
- **2024-04-10** From committee: Ordered to third reading. `committee-passage`
- **2024-04-17** Ordered to special consent calendar.
- **2024-04-18** Adopted and to Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 3673.) `amendment-passage, passage`
- **2024-04-18** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2024-04-19** Enrolled and filed with the Secretary of State at 3:30 p.m.
- **2024-04-19** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Res. Chapter 52, Statutes of 2024. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b88bdf90-c6cc-4f22-b07f-ec0e76c9d3af`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).