republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20232024/scr-53.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relative to Arts, Culture, and Creativity Month."
description: "This measure would encourage all Californians to support the arts and would recognize April 2023 as a significant time to recognize, appreciate, and celebrate the arts, culture, and creativity of all Californians."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20232024"
identifier: "SCR 53"
citation: "California SCR 53 (20232024)"
classification: ["concurrent resolution"]
subjects: ["Arts", "Culture", "and Creativity Month"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Allen"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 11
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2023-04-17"
last_action: "2023-05-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d7ff6924-e0e4-4af6-a28b-a47a7fce3912"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SCR53"
source_hash: "ab0ec6394aa2d8a05883f4f79b73d0b689914b91d86549194c238901c5e8d4f0"
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 53 (20232024) — Relative to Arts, Culture, and Creativity Month.

This measure would encourage all Californians to support the arts and would recognize April 2023 as a significant time to recognize, appreciate, and celebrate the arts, culture, and creativity of all Californians.

## Version chain

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

1. **04/17/23 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SCR53&version=20230SCR5399INT)
2. **05/26/23 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SCR53&version=20230SCR5397CHP)
3. **SCR53** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SCR53)
4. **05/23/23 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SCR53&version=20230SCR5398ENR)

## Votes

- Be adopted. To Consent Calendar. — **10–0** (pass) · lower
- SCR 53 Allen Consent Calendar Second Day — **74–0** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading — **38–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Allen — 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)
- Chen — coauthor (person)
- Connolly — coauthor (person)
- Davies — coauthor (person)
- Dixon — coauthor (person)
- Essayli — 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)
- 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)
- Low — coauthor (person)
- Lowenthal — coauthor (person)
- Luz Rivas — coauthor (person)
- Maienschein — coauthor (person)
- Mathis — coauthor (person)
- McCarty — coauthor (person)
- McKinnor — coauthor (person)
- Megan Dahle — coauthor (person)
- Mike Fong — 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)
- 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.

- **2023-04-17** Introduced. Referred to Com. on RLS. `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2023-04-26** From committee: Ordered to third reading. `committee-passage`
- **2023-04-27** Read. Adopted. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 921.) Ordered to the Assembly. `amendment-passage, passage, reading-1`
- **2023-04-27** In Assembly. Held at Desk.
- **2023-05-04** Referred to Com. on RLS. `referral-committee`
- **2023-05-11** From committee: Be adopted. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (May 11). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-18** Coauthors revised.
- **2023-05-18** Read. Adopted. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 1603.) Ordered to the Senate. `amendment-passage, passage, reading-1`
- **2023-05-22** In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
- **2023-05-26** Enrolled and filed with the Secretary of State at 2 p.m.
- **2023-05-26** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Res. Chapter 74, 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/d7ff6924-e0e4-4af6-a28b-a47a7fce3912`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).