republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20232024/scr-36.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relative to Arts Education Month."
description: "This measure would proclaim March 2023 as Arts Education Month and urge all residents to become interested in and give full support to quality arts education programs for children and youth."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20232024"
identifier: "SCR 36"
citation: "California SCR 36 (20232024)"
classification: ["concurrent resolution"]
subjects: ["Arts Education Month"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Portantino"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 11
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2023-03-08"
last_action: "2023-05-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/de7ab5db-73ae-4a79-82f1-1a10cf285c31"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SCR36"
source_hash: "2f0dbdff8c86f674c440e104e92ff69edb8b92835288fc3b308544b79194269b"
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 36 (20232024) — Relative to Arts Education Month.

This measure would proclaim March 2023 as Arts Education Month and urge all residents to become interested in and give full support to quality arts education programs for children and youth.

## Version chain

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

1. **03/08/23 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SCR36&version=20230SCR3699INT)
2. **05/18/23 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SCR36&version=20230SCR3697CHP)
3. **SCR36** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SCR36)
4. **05/09/23 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SCR36&version=20230SCR3698ENR)

## Votes

- 3rd Reading SCR36 Portantino et al. — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- Be adopted. To Consent Calendar. — **13–0** (pass) · lower
- SCR 36 Portantino Consent Calendar Second Day — **75–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Portantino — 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)
- Caballero — 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 — 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)
- Lee — coauthor (person)
- Limón — 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)
- Nguyen — coauthor (person)
- Ochoa Bogh — 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)
- Vince Fong — coauthor (person)
- Waldron — coauthor (person)
- Ward — 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.

- **2023-03-08** Introduced. Referred to Com. on RLS. `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2023-03-15** From committee: Ordered to third reading. `committee-passage`
- **2023-03-30** Read. Adopted. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 588.) Ordered to the Assembly. `amendment-passage, passage, reading-1`
- **2023-03-30** In Assembly. Held at Desk.
- **2023-04-13** Referred to Com. on RLS. `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-27** From committee: Be adopted. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (April 27). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-04** Coauthors revised.
- **2023-05-04** Read. Adopted. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 1467.) Ordered to the Senate. `amendment-passage, passage, reading-1`
- **2023-05-08** In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
- **2023-05-18** Enrolled and filed with the Secretary of State at 2 p.m.
- **2023-05-18** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Res. Chapter 54, 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/de7ab5db-73ae-4a79-82f1-1a10cf285c31`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).