republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20232024/acr-26.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "California Down Syndrome Awareness Week and Day."
description: "This measure would proclaim March 19, 2023, to March 25, 2023, as California Down Syndrome Awareness Week and March 21, 2023, 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 26"
citation: "California ACR 26 (20232024)"
classification: ["concurrent resolution"]
subjects: ["California Down Syndrome Awareness Week and Day"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Joe Patterson"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-02-28"
last_action: "2023-04-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/32b9307b-a44a-41ef-9b74-7025c9a65c97"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240ACR26"
source_hash: "24118cec98a6df64a01bd9b21801287493cbc8b9f779d771ce3609bb169d6a43"
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 26 (20232024) — California Down Syndrome Awareness Week and Day.

This measure would proclaim March 19, 2023, to March 25, 2023, as California Down Syndrome Awareness Week and March 21, 2023, 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. **02/28/23 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240ACR26&version=20230ACR2699INT)
2. **04/25/23 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240ACR26&version=20230ACR2697CHP)
3. **ACR26** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240ACR26)
4. **04/18/23 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240ACR26&version=20230ACR2698ENR)

## Votes

- Special Consent ACR26 Joe Patterson et al. — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- Be adopted. To third reading. — **13–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Joe Patterson — primary (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 — coauthor (person)
- Bryan — coauthor (person)
- Calderon — coauthor (person)
- Cervantes — coauthor (person)
- Chen — coauthor (person)
- Connolly — coauthor (person)
- Davies — coauthor (person)
- Dixon — coauthor (person)
- Essayli — coauthor (person)
- Friedman — coauthor (person)
- Gabriel — coauthor (person)
- Gallagher — coauthor (person)
- Garcia — coauthor (person)
- Gipson — coauthor (person)
- Grayson — author (person)
- Haney — coauthor (person)
- Hart — coauthor (person)
- Hoover — coauthor (person)
- Jackson — coauthor (person)
- Jim Patterson — coauthor (person)
- Jones-Sawyer — coauthor (person)
- Kalra — coauthor (person)
- Lackey — author (person)
- Lee — coauthor (person)
- Low — coauthor (person)
- Lowenthal — coauthor (person)
- Luz Rivas — coauthor (person)
- Maienschein — coauthor (person)
- Mathis — author (person)
- McCarty — coauthor (person)
- McKinnor — coauthor (person)
- Megan Dahle — coauthor (person)
- Mike Fong — coauthor (person)
- Ortega — coauthor (person)
- Pacheco — coauthor (person)
- Pellerin — coauthor (person)
- Petrie-Norris — coauthor (person)
- Quirk-Silva — coauthor (person)
- Ramos — coauthor (person)
- Rendon — coauthor (person)
- Reyes — 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)
- Villapudua — coauthor (person)
- Vince Fong — 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.

- **2023-02-28** Introduced. To print. `introduction`
- **2023-03-01** From printer.
- **2023-03-02** Referred to Com. on RLS. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-09** Coauthors revised.
- **2023-03-09** From committee: Be adopted. Ordered to Third Reading. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (March 9). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, reading-1`
- **2023-03-16** Coauthors revised.
- **2023-03-16** Adopted and to Senate. (Page 688.) `amendment-passage, passage`
- **2023-03-20** In Senate. To Com. on RLS.
- **2023-03-29** From committee: Ordered to third reading. `committee-passage`
- **2023-04-11** Ordered to special consent calendar.
- **2023-04-13** Adopted and to Assembly. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 701.) `amendment-passage, passage`
- **2023-04-17** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2023-04-25** Enrolled and filed with the Secretary of State at 2 p.m.
- **2023-04-25** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Res. Chapter 34, 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/32b9307b-a44a-41ef-9b74-7025c9a65c97`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).