republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20232024/scr-55.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relative to Tap Water Day."
description: "This measure would proclaim the first Thursday in May to be \"Tap Water Day\" in this state and would encourage Californians to celebrate, support, trust, and value publicly supplied drinking water and use community drinking fountains and filling stations as one of the best and healthiest sources of drinking water."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20232024"
identifier: "SCR 55"
citation: "California SCR 55 (20232024)"
classification: ["concurrent resolution"]
subjects: ["Tap Water Day"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Portantino"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 11
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2023-04-19"
last_action: "2023-06-02"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c53f2eff-809f-4ea7-85be-6534ff14ca19"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SCR55"
source_hash: "f927bbe0ed72803b76ec6a92c4ddfd4030ffb59dee87fc63cad31232f59f6cf6"
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 55 (20232024) — Relative to Tap Water Day.

This measure would proclaim the first Thursday in May to be "Tap Water Day" in this state and would encourage Californians to celebrate, support, trust, and value publicly supplied drinking water and use community drinking fountains and filling stations as one of the best and healthiest sources of drinking water.

## Version chain

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

1. **04/19/23 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SCR55&version=20230SCR5599INT)
2. **06/02/23 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SCR55&version=20230SCR5597CHP)
3. **SCR55** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SCR55)
4. **05/30/23 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SCR55&version=20230SCR5598ENR)

## Votes

- 3rd Reading — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- SCR 55 Portantino Consent Calendar Second Day — **76–0** (pass) · lower
- Be adopted. To Consent Calendar. — **12–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Portantino — primary (person)
- Addis — 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- Jim Patterson — coauthor (person)
- Joe Patterson — coauthor (person)
- Jones-Sawyer — coauthor (person)
- Juan Carrillo — coauthor (person)
- Lackey — coauthor (person)
- Low — coauthor (person)
- Lowenthal — coauthor (person)
- Luz Rivas — coauthor (person)
- Maienschein — coauthor (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)
- 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)
- 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.

- **2023-04-19** Introduced. Referred to Com. on RLS. `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2023-04-26** From committee: Ordered to third reading. `committee-passage`
- **2023-05-04** Read. Adopted. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 998.) Ordered to the Assembly. `amendment-passage, passage, reading-1`
- **2023-05-04** In Assembly. Held at Desk.
- **2023-05-11** Referred to Com. on RLS. `referral-committee`
- **2023-05-18** From committee: Be adopted. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (May 18). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-25** Coauthors revised.
- **2023-05-25** Read. Adopted. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 1816.) Ordered to the Senate. `amendment-passage, passage, reading-1`
- **2023-05-26** In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
- **2023-06-02** Enrolled and filed with the Secretary of State at 2 p.m.
- **2023-06-02** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Res. Chapter 83, 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/c53f2eff-809f-4ea7-85be-6534ff14ca19`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).