republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20232024/acr-42.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relative to Women's Equal Pay Day."
description: "This measure would proclaim April 2, 2023, as Women's Equal Pay Day in California, in recognition of the need to eliminate the gender gap in earnings by women and to promote policies to ensure equal pay for all."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20232024"
identifier: "ACR 42"
citation: "California ACR 42 (20232024)"
classification: ["concurrent resolution"]
subjects: ["Women's Equal Pay Day"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Addis"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-03-20"
last_action: "2023-05-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c1be6ad8-fa73-43be-bd77-c09173f8fa58"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240ACR42"
source_hash: "ef26f18117aba5704e98d9e497ac45c78fb3413fdd808c05949539d4e6f49e60"
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 42 (20232024) — Relative to Women's Equal Pay Day.

This measure would proclaim April 2, 2023, as Women's Equal Pay Day in California, in recognition of the need to eliminate the gender gap in earnings by women and to promote policies to ensure equal pay for all.

## Version chain

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

1. **03/20/23 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240ACR42&version=20230ACR4299INT)
2. **05/03/23 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240ACR42&version=20230ACR4297CHP)
3. **ACR42** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240ACR42)
4. **04/28/23 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240ACR42&version=20230ACR4298ENR)

## Votes

- Be adopted. To third reading. — **13–0** (pass) · lower
- Special Consent ACR42 Addis et al. — **38–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Addis — primary (person)
- Aguiar-Curry — coauthor (person)
- Alanis — coauthor (person)
- Alvarez — coauthor (person)
- Arambula — coauthor (person)
- Bains — coauthor (person)
- Bennett — coauthor (person)
- Berman — coauthor (person)
- Blanca Rubio — coauthor (person)
- Boerner Horvath — coauthor (person)
- Bonta — coauthor (person)
- Calderon — coauthor (person)
- Cervantes — coauthor (person)
- Connolly — 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)
- 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)
- Luz Rivas — coauthor (person)
- Maienschein — coauthor (person)
- Mathis — coauthor (person)
- McCarty — 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)
- Ramos — coauthor (person)
- Rendon — 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)
- 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)
- Wood — coauthor (person)
- Zbur — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-03-20** Introduced. To print. `introduction`
- **2023-03-21** From printer.
- **2023-03-23** Referred to Com. on RLS. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-23** From committee: Be adopted. Ordered to Third Reading. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (March 23). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, reading-1`
- **2023-04-10** Coauthors revised.
- **2023-04-10** Adopted and to Senate. (Page 1075.) `amendment-passage, passage`
- **2023-04-11** In Senate. To Com. on RLS.
- **2023-04-19** From committee: Ordered to third reading. `committee-passage`
- **2023-04-25** Ordered to special consent calendar.
- **2023-04-27** Adopted and to Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 922.) `amendment-passage, passage`
- **2023-04-27** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2023-05-03** Enrolled and filed with the Secretary of State at 3 p.m.
- **2023-05-03** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Res. Chapter 44, 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/c1be6ad8-fa73-43be-bd77-c09173f8fa58`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).