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type: "Bill"
title: "Relative to Black History Month."
description: "This measure would recognize February 2023 as Black History Month, urge all citizens to join in celebrating the accomplishments of African Americans during Black History Month, and encourage the people of California to recognize the many talents of African Americans and the achievements and contributions they make to their communities to create equity and equality for education, economics, and social justice. The measure would also recognize the significance in protecting citizens' right to vote and remedying racial discrimination in voting."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20232024"
identifier: "ACR 15"
citation: "California ACR 15 (20232024)"
classification: ["concurrent resolution"]
subjects: ["Black History Month"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Wilson"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 13
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2023-02-14"
last_action: "2023-03-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6b6aca69-4f07-4337-8c1b-44fefaedf7d6"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240ACR15"
source_hash: "b74fb6e1701f163523fe507162a8497ee29af95dd29d8ef772da710733c22cfd"
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 15 (20232024) — Relative to Black History Month.
This measure would recognize February 2023 as Black History Month, urge all citizens to join in celebrating the accomplishments of African Americans during Black History Month, and encourage the people of California to recognize the many talents of African Americans and the achievements and contributions they make to their communities to create equity and equality for education, economics, and social justice. The measure would also recognize the significance in protecting citizens' right to vote and remedying racial discrimination in voting.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **02/14/23 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240ACR15&version=20230ACR1599INT)
2. **03/27/23 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240ACR15&version=20230ACR1597CHP)
3. **ACR15** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240ACR15)
4. **03/17/23 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240ACR15&version=20230ACR1598ENR)
## Votes
- Be adopted. To third reading. — **130** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Wilson — primary (person)
- Addis — coauthor (person)
- Aguiar-Curry — coauthor (person)
- Alanis — coauthor (person)
- Alvarez — coauthor (person)
- Arambula — coauthor (person)
- Bains — coauthor (person)
- Bauer-Kahan — coauthor (person)
- Bennett — coauthor (person)
- Berman — coauthor (person)
- Blanca Rubio — coauthor (person)
- Boerner Horvath — coauthor (person)
- Bonta — principal coauthor (person)
- Bradford — principal coauthor (person)
- Bryan — principal coauthor (person)
- Calderon — coauthor (person)
- Cervantes — coauthor (person)
- Chen — coauthor (person)
- Connolly — coauthor (person)
- Davies — coauthor (person)
- Dixon — coauthor (person)
- Essayli — coauthor (person)
- Flora — coauthor (person)
- Friedman — coauthor (person)
- Gabriel — coauthor (person)
- Gallagher — coauthor (person)
- Gipson — principal coauthor (person)
- Grayson — coauthor (person)
- Haney — coauthor (person)
- Hart — coauthor (person)
- Holden — principal coauthor (person)
- Irwin — coauthor (person)
- Jackson — principal coauthor (person)
- Jim Patterson — coauthor (person)
- Joe Patterson — coauthor (person)
- Jones-Sawyer — principal coauthor (person)
- Juan Carrillo — coauthor (person)
- Lackey — coauthor (person)
- Lee — coauthor (person)
- Low — coauthor (person)
- Lowenthal — coauthor (person)
- Luz Rivas — coauthor (person)
- Maienschein — coauthor (person)
- Mathis — coauthor (person)
- McCarty — principal coauthor (person)
- McKinnor — principal coauthor (person)
- Megan Dahle — 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)
- Rendon — coauthor (person)
- Robert Rivas — coauthor (person)
- Rodriguez — coauthor (person)
- Sanchez — coauthor (person)
- Santiago — coauthor (person)
- Schiavo — coauthor (person)
- Smallwood-Cuevas — principal coauthor (person)
- Soria — coauthor (person)
- Stephanie Nguyen — coauthor (person)
- Ta — coauthor (person)
- Ting — coauthor (person)
- Valencia — coauthor (person)
- Villapudua — coauthor (person)
- Vince Fong — coauthor (person)
- Waldron — coauthor (person)
- Wallis — coauthor (person)
- Ward — coauthor (person)
- Weber — principal coauthor (person)
- Wicks — coauthor (person)
- Wood — coauthor (person)
- Zbur — coauthor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2023-02-14** Introduced. To print. `introduction`
- **2023-02-15** From printer.
- **2023-02-17** Referred to Com. on RLS. `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-23** From committee: Be adopted. Ordered to Third Reading. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (February 23). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, reading-1`
- **2023-02-27** Coauthors revised.
- **2023-02-27** Adopted and to Senate. (Page 471.) `amendment-passage, passage`
- **2023-02-28** In Senate. To Com. on RLS.
- **2023-03-08** From committee: Ordered to third reading. `committee-passage`
- **2023-03-14** Ordered to special consent calendar.
- **2023-03-16** Adopted and to Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 361.) `amendment-passage, passage`
- **2023-03-16** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2023-03-27** Enrolled and filed with the Secretary of State at 2 p.m.
- **2023-03-28** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Res. Chapter 19, Statutes of 2023. `became-law`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6b6aca69-4f07-4337-8c1b-44fefaedf7d6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).