republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20232024/acr-198.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relative to Small Business Month."
description: "This measure would declare May as California Small Business Month and express the Legislature's support of the Governor's efforts in promoting small businesses."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20232024"
identifier: "ACR 198"
citation: "California ACR 198 (20232024)"
classification: ["concurrent resolution"]
subjects: ["California Small Business Month"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Villapudua"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-05-07"
last_action: "2024-06-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4a16a638-7a4a-46bc-bc2e-27ff0dff40d9"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240ACR198"
source_hash: "2ba7623cddf0c3db24e2d46b49c9548ae54fb9c5a30249c405124228830cdbf2"
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 198 (20232024) — Relative to Small Business Month.

This measure would declare May as California Small Business Month and express the Legislature's support of the Governor's efforts in promoting small businesses.

## Version chain

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

1. **05/07/24 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240ACR198&version=20230ACR19899INT)
2. **06/20/24 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240ACR198&version=20230ACR19897CHP)
3. **ACR198** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240ACR198)
4. **06/18/24 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240ACR198&version=20230ACR19898ENR)

## Votes

- Special Consent ACR198 Villapudua et al. — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- Be adopted. To third reading. — **10–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Villapudua — primary (person)
- Addis — coauthor (person)
- Aguiar-Curry — coauthor (person)
- Alanis — coauthor (person)
- Alvarez — coauthor (person)
- Arambula — coauthor (person)
- Bains — coauthor (person)
- Bennett — coauthor (person)
- Berman — coauthor (person)
- Boerner — coauthor (person)
- Bonta — coauthor (person)
- Bryan — coauthor (person)
- Calderon — coauthor (person)
- Chen — coauthor (person)
- Connolly — coauthor (person)
- Davies — coauthor (person)
- Dixon — coauthor (person)
- Flora — coauthor (person)
- Gabriel — coauthor (person)
- Gallagher — coauthor (person)
- Garcia — coauthor (person)
- Gipson — coauthor (person)
- Grayson — coauthor (person)
- Haney — coauthor (person)
- Hart — 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)
- Lee — coauthor (person)
- Low — coauthor (person)
- Lowenthal — 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)
- Ramos — coauthor (person)
- Reyes — coauthor (person)
- Robert Rivas — coauthor (person)
- Rodriguez — 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)
- Weber — coauthor (person)
- Wendy Carrillo — coauthor (person)
- Wilson — coauthor (person)
- Zbur — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-05-07** Introduced. To print. `introduction`
- **2024-05-08** From printer.
- **2024-05-13** Referred to Com. on RLS. `referral-committee`
- **2024-05-13** From committee: Be adopted. Ordered to Third Reading. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (May 13). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, reading-1`
- **2024-05-24** Coauthors revised.
- **2024-05-24** Adopted and to Senate. (Page 5669.) `amendment-passage, passage`
- **2024-05-28** 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 110, 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/4a16a638-7a4a-46bc-bc2e-27ff0dff40d9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).