republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20232024/acr-171.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relative to Songkran New Year Festival."
description: "This measure would join Asian and Pacific Islander communities throughout the state, nation, and world in celebrating April 13, 2024, to April 15, 2024, as the Songkran New Year Festival."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20232024"
identifier: "ACR 171"
citation: "California ACR 171 (20232024)"
classification: ["concurrent resolution"]
subjects: ["Songkran New Year Festival"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Low"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 13
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2024-04-09"
last_action: "2024-05-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8ce8fbeb-92fa-4a30-b052-d75099f10cbb"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240ACR171"
source_hash: "63fcc582e1d0e35f59a4e7ceceaf0fb07e1ca6f71cf9ee1fa78837a0d26fba11"
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 171 (20232024) — Relative to Songkran New Year Festival.

This measure would join Asian and Pacific Islander communities throughout the state, nation, and world in celebrating April 13, 2024, to April 15, 2024, as the Songkran New Year Festival.

## Version chain

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

1. **04/09/24 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240ACR171&version=20230ACR17199INT)
2. **05/14/24 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240ACR171&version=20230ACR17197CHP)
3. **ACR171** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240ACR171)
4. **05/10/24 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240ACR171&version=20230ACR17198ENR)

## Votes

- Be adopted. To Consent Calendar. — **7–0** (pass) · lower
- Special Consent ACR171 Low et al. — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- ACR 171 Low Consent Calendar Second Day — **72–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Low — primary (person)
- Addis — coauthor (person)
- Aguiar-Curry — coauthor (person)
- Alanis — coauthor (person)
- Alvarez — coauthor (person)
- Bains — principal coauthor (person)
- Bauer-Kahan — coauthor (person)
- Bennett — coauthor (person)
- Berman — coauthor (person)
- Blanca Rubio — coauthor (person)
- Calderon — coauthor (person)
- Chen — coauthor (person)
- Connolly — coauthor (person)
- Davies — coauthor (person)
- Dixon — coauthor (person)
- Flora — coauthor (person)
- Friedman — coauthor (person)
- Gabriel — coauthor (person)
- Gallagher — coauthor (person)
- Garcia — coauthor (person)
- Gipson — coauthor (person)
- Grayson — coauthor (person)
- Haney — coauthor (person)
- Hart — coauthor (person)
- Holden — coauthor (person)
- Hoover — coauthor (person)
- Irwin — coauthor (person)
- Jackson — coauthor (person)
- Jim Patterson — coauthor (person)
- Joe Patterson — coauthor (person)
- Jones-Sawyer — coauthor (person)
- Juan Carrillo — coauthor (person)
- Kalra — principal coauthor (person)
- Lackey — coauthor (person)
- Lee — principal coauthor (person)
- Lowenthal — coauthor (person)
- Luz Rivas — coauthor (person)
- Maienschein — coauthor (person)
- McCarty — coauthor (person)
- McKinnor — coauthor (person)
- Mike Fong — principal coauthor (person)
- Min — principal coauthor (person)
- Muratsuchi — principal 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)
- Reyes — coauthor (person)
- Robert Rivas — coauthor (person)
- Rodriguez — coauthor (person)
- Sanchez — coauthor (person)
- Santiago — coauthor (person)
- Schiavo — coauthor (person)
- Soria — coauthor (person)
- Stephanie Nguyen — principal coauthor (person)
- Ta — coauthor (person)
- Ting — principal coauthor (person)
- Valencia — coauthor (person)
- Villapudua — coauthor (person)
- Vince Fong — coauthor (person)
- Wahab — principal coauthor (person)
- Waldron — coauthor (person)
- Wallis — coauthor (person)
- Ward — coauthor (person)
- Weber — coauthor (person)
- Wendy Carrillo — coauthor (person)
- Wicks — coauthor (person)
- Wilson — coauthor (person)
- Wood — coauthor (person)
- Zbur — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-04-09** Introduced. To print. `introduction`
- **2024-04-10** From printer.
- **2024-04-15** Referred to Com. on RLS. `referral-committee`
- **2024-04-15** From committee: Be adopted. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 15). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-18** Coauthors revised.
- **2024-04-18** Adopted and to Senate. (Ayes 72. Noes 0.) `amendment-passage, passage`
- **2024-04-22** In Senate. To Com. on RLS.
- **2024-05-01** From committee: Ordered to third reading. `committee-passage`
- **2024-05-08** Ordered to special consent calendar.
- **2024-05-09** Adopted and to Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 3876.) `amendment-passage, passage`
- **2024-05-09** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2024-05-14** Enrolled and filed with the Secretary of State at 2 p.m.
- **2024-05-14** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Res. Chapter 66, 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/8ce8fbeb-92fa-4a30-b052-d75099f10cbb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).