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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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type: "Bill"
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title: "Don't Ask, Don't Tell: discharge characterizations."
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description: "This measure would urge the President and the Congress of the United States to address, with effective policies, the issue of servicemembers who were unjustly discharged under \"Don't Ask, Don't Tell\" or predecessor provisions, in order to unify efforts to upgrade discharges issued under the DADT policy, and to restore benefits."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
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legislature: "California Legislature"
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session: "20232024"
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identifier: "SJR 6"
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citation: "California SJR 6 (20232024)"
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classification: ["joint resolution"]
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subjects: ["Don't Ask", "Don't Tell", "discharge characterizations"]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Caballero"]
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version_count: 5
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action_count: 14
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vote_count: 4
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first_action: "2023-06-29"
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last_action: "2024-08-21"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ac6bf117-63f5-48c6-8ebd-250f383a4da6"
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source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SJR6"
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source_hash: "ee60fb7f559db5967054f0c793d20c57d62f73e73504dc04be599604d1c29c38"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
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---
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# California SJR 6 (20232024) — Don't Ask, Don't Tell: discharge characterizations.
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This measure would urge the President and the Congress of the United States to address, with effective policies, the issue of servicemembers who were unjustly discharged under "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" or predecessor provisions, in order to unify efforts to upgrade discharges issued under the DADT policy, and to restore benefits.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **06/29/23 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SJR6&version=20230SJR699INT)
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2. **04/01/24 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SJR6&version=20230SJR698AMD)
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3. **08/21/24 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SJR6&version=20230SJR696CHP)
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4. **SJR6** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SJR6)
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5. **08/16/24 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SJR6&version=20230SJR697ENR)
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## Votes
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- Be adopted. Ordered to third reading — **4–0** (pass) · upper
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- SJR 6 Caballero Senate Third Reading By Ward — **62–0** (pass) · lower
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- 3rd Reading SJR6 Caballero et al. — **29–0** (pass) · upper
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- Be adopted. To third reading. — **7–0** (pass) · lower
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## Sponsors
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- Caballero — primary (person)
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- Addis — coauthor (person)
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- Alvarado-Gil — coauthor (person)
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- Atkins — principal coauthor (person)
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- Becker — coauthor (person)
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- Bradford — coauthor (person)
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- Cervantes — principal coauthor (person)
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- Durazo — coauthor (person)
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- Eggman — author (person)
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- Jackson — principal coauthor (person)
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- Juan Carrillo — coauthor (person)
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- Laird — principal coauthor (person)
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- Lee — principal coauthor (person)
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- Limón — coauthor (person)
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- Low — principal coauthor (person)
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- McKinnor — coauthor (person)
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- Menjivar — author (person)
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- Newman — coauthor (person)
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- Padilla — principal coauthor (person)
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- Quirk-Silva — coauthor (person)
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- Rubio — coauthor (person)
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- Stern — coauthor (person)
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- Umberg — coauthor (person)
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- Ward — principal coauthor (person)
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- Wiener — principal coauthor (person)
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- Zbur — principal coauthor (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2023-06-29** Introduced. Referred to Com. on RLS. `introduction, referral-committee`
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- **2023-07-12** Re-referred to Com. on M. & V.A. `referral-committee`
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- **2024-04-01** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on M. & V.A. `amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
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- **2024-04-12** Set for hearing April 22.
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- **2024-04-23** From committee: Be adopted. Ordered to third reading. (Ayes 4. Noes 0. Page 3704.) (April 22). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2024-06-03** Read. Adopted. (Ayes 29. Noes 0. Page 4289.) Ordered to the Assembly. `amendment-passage, passage, reading-1`
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- **2024-06-03** In Assembly. Held at Desk.
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- **2024-06-10** Referred to Com. on M. & V.A. `referral-committee`
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- **2024-06-26** Coauthors revised.
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- **2024-06-26** From committee: Be adopted. Ordered to third reading. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 25). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2024-08-15** Read. Adopted. (Ayes 62. Noes 0. Page 6311.) Ordered to the Senate. `amendment-passage, passage, reading-1`
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- **2024-08-15** In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
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- **2024-08-21** Enrolled and filed with the Secretary of State at 2 p.m.
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- **2024-08-21** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Res. Chapter 173, Statutes of 2024. `became-law`
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ac6bf117-63f5-48c6-8ebd-250f383a4da6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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