republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20232024/acr-177.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relative to 529 College Savings Day."
description: "This measure would designate May 29, 2024, as 529 College Savings Day, to raise awareness about the importance of saving for college with the help of 529 college savings plans."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20232024"
identifier: "ACR 177"
citation: "California ACR 177 (20232024)"
classification: ["concurrent resolution"]
subjects: ["529 College Savings Day"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ward"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-04-16"
last_action: "2024-06-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d0d6b28c-72a4-48e0-8a92-881c82b6b511"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240ACR177"
source_hash: "d3ddf523fab0c1d6d9f6ba07e54bb52ed8c0c8380ffbf3ddccfb82f8caad6307"
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 177 (20232024) — Relative to 529 College Savings Day.

This measure would designate May 29, 2024, as 529 College Savings Day, to raise awareness about the importance of saving for college with the help of 529 college savings plans.

## Version chain

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

1. **04/16/24 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240ACR177&version=20230ACR17799INT)
2. **06/20/24 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240ACR177&version=20230ACR17797CHP)
3. **ACR177** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240ACR177)
4. **06/18/24 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240ACR177&version=20230ACR17798ENR)

## Votes

- Special Consent ACR177 Ward et al. — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- Be adopted. To third reading. — **9–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Ward — primary (person)
- Addis — coauthor (person)
- Aguiar-Curry — coauthor (person)
- Alanis — coauthor (person)
- Alvarez — coauthor (person)
- Arambula — coauthor (person)
- Bauer-Kahan — coauthor (person)
- Bennett — coauthor (person)
- Berman — coauthor (person)
- Blanca Rubio — coauthor (person)
- Boerner — coauthor (person)
- Bonta — coauthor (person)
- Calderon — coauthor (person)
- Chen — coauthor (person)
- Connolly — coauthor (person)
- Essayli — 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 — 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)
- 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 — coauthor (person)
- Ta — coauthor (person)
- Ting — coauthor (person)
- Valencia — coauthor (person)
- Villapudua — coauthor (person)
- Waldron — coauthor (person)
- Wallis — coauthor (person)
- Weber — coauthor (person)
- Wendy Carrillo — coauthor (person)
- Wilson — coauthor (person)
- Wood — coauthor (person)
- Zbur — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-04-16** Introduced. To print. `introduction`
- **2024-04-17** From printer.
- **2024-04-22** Referred to Com. on RLS. `referral-committee`
- **2024-05-20** From committee: Be adopted. Ordered to Third Reading. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (May 20). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, reading-1`
- **2024-05-28** Coauthors revised.
- **2024-05-28** Adopted and to Senate. (Page 5689.) `amendment-passage, passage`
- **2024-05-29** In Senate. To Com. on RLS.
- **2024-06-05** From committee: Ordered to third reading. `committee-passage`
- **2024-06-11** Ordered to special consent calendar.
- **2024-06-13** Adopted and to Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 4493.) `amendment-passage, passage`
- **2024-06-13** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2024-06-20** Enrolled and filed with the Secretary of State at 2 p.m.
- **2024-06-20** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Res. Chapter 108, 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/d0d6b28c-72a4-48e0-8a92-881c82b6b511`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).