republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20232024/scr-17.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relative to artificial intelligence."
description: "This measure would affirm the California Legislature's commitment to President Biden's vision for a safe AI and the principles outlined in the \"Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights\" and would express the Legislature's commitment to examining and implementing those principles in its legislation and policies related to the use and deployment of automated systems."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20232024"
identifier: "SCR 17"
citation: "California SCR 17 (20232024)"
classification: ["concurrent resolution"]
subjects: ["Artificial intelligence"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dodd"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 12
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-01-30"
last_action: "2023-08-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/afae6728-50c9-4167-8d33-aa2a9750dba7"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SCR17"
source_hash: "ed1205f8f516c157b75fe0329119d4e225591458863fe4f5b977efa79cf7d9dd"
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 SCR 17 (20232024) — Relative to artificial intelligence.

This measure would affirm the California Legislature's commitment to President Biden's vision for a safe AI and the principles outlined in the "Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights" and would express the Legislature's commitment to examining and implementing those principles in its legislation and policies related to the use and deployment of automated systems.

## Version chain

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

1. **01/30/23 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SCR17&version=20230SCR1799INT)
2. **08/23/23 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SCR17&version=20230SCR1797CHP)
3. **SCR17** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SCR17)
4. **08/17/23 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SCR17&version=20230SCR1798ENR)

## Votes

- Be adopted. To third reading. — **9–0** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading — **33–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Dodd — primary (person)
- Addis — coauthor (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 — coauthor (person)
- Bonta — coauthor (person)
- Bryan — coauthor (person)
- Calderon — coauthor (person)
- Cervantes — coauthor (person)
- Connolly — coauthor (person)
- Dixon — coauthor (person)
- Friedman — coauthor (person)
- Gabriel — coauthor (person)
- Gipson — coauthor (person)
- Grayson — coauthor (person)
- Haney — coauthor (person)
- Hart — coauthor (person)
- Holden — coauthor (person)
- Irwin — coauthor (person)
- Jackson — coauthor (person)
- Jones-Sawyer — coauthor (person)
- Juan Carrillo — coauthor (person)
- Kalra — coauthor (person)
- Lee — 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)
- Muratsuchi — 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)
- Santiago — coauthor (person)
- Schiavo — coauthor (person)
- Soria — coauthor (person)
- Ting — coauthor (person)
- Valencia — coauthor (person)
- Villapudua — 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.

- **2023-01-30** Introduced. Referred to Com. on RLS. `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2023-02-09** From committee: Ordered to third reading. `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-17** Read. Adopted. (Ayes 33. Noes 0. Page 219.) Ordered to the Assembly. `amendment-passage, passage, reading-1`
- **2023-02-17** In Assembly. Held at Desk.
- **2023-02-23** Referred to Com. on P. & C.P. `referral-committee`
- **2023-06-06** June 13 hearing postponed by committee.
- **2023-06-28** From committee: Be adopted. Ordered to third reading. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 27). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-08-14** Coauthors revised.
- **2023-08-14** Read. Adopted. (Page 2679.) Ordered to the Senate. `amendment-passage, passage, reading-1`
- **2023-08-15** In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
- **2023-08-23** Enrolled and filed with the Secretary of State at 2 p.m.
- **2023-08-23** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Res. Chapter 135, 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/afae6728-50c9-4167-8d33-aa2a9750dba7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).