republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20252026/acr-51.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relative to Irish American Heritage Month."
description: "This measure would, among other things, designate March 2025 as Irish American Heritage Month in honor of 101 years of diplomatic relations between the United States and Ireland and would commemorate the multitude of contributions that Irish Americans have made to this country and state."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20252026"
identifier: "ACR 51"
citation: "California ACR 51 (20252026)"
classification: ["concurrent resolution"]
subjects: ["IrishAmericanHeritageMonth"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Haney"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-03-11"
last_action: "2025-04-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/11297c6b-94cb-4adb-9191-29d9d25aad31"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260ACR51"
source_hash: "73f2b993737edbe1fe04af6074baeefa6eca48443795b58dd6639df83d94e4c2"
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 ACR 51 (20252026) — Relative to Irish American Heritage Month.

This measure would, among other things, designate March 2025 as Irish American Heritage Month in honor of 101 years of diplomatic relations between the United States and Ireland and would commemorate the multitude of contributions that Irish Americans have made to this country and state.

## Version chain

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

1. **03/11/25 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260ACR51&version=20250ACR5199INT)
2. **04/08/25 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260ACR51&version=20250ACR5197CHP)
3. **ACR51** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260ACR51)
4. **04/04/25 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260ACR51&version=20250ACR5198ENR)

## Votes

- Special Consent ACR51 Haney et al. — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Be adopted. To third reading. — **9–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Haney — primary (person)
- Addis — coauthor (person)
- Aguiar-Curry — coauthor (person)
- Ahrens — 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)
- Calderon — principal coauthor (person)
- Caloza — coauthor (person)
- Castillo — coauthor (person)
- Celeste Rodriguez — coauthor (person)
- Chen — coauthor (person)
- Connolly — principal coauthor (person)
- Davies — coauthor (person)
- DeMaio — coauthor (person)
- Dixon — coauthor (person)
- Elhawary — coauthor (person)
- Ellis — coauthor (person)
- Essayli — coauthor (person)
- Flora — principal coauthor (person)
- Fong — coauthor (person)
- Gabriel — coauthor (person)
- Gallagher — principal coauthor (person)
- Garcia — coauthor (person)
- Gipson — coauthor (person)
- Hadwick — coauthor (person)
- Harabedian — coauthor (person)
- Hoover — coauthor (person)
- Irwin — coauthor (person)
- Jackson — coauthor (person)
- Jeff Gonzalez — coauthor (person)
- Kalra — coauthor (person)
- Lackey — coauthor (person)
- Lowenthal — coauthor (person)
- Macedo — coauthor (person)
- Mark González — coauthor (person)
- McKinnor — coauthor (person)
- Michelle Rodriguez — coauthor (person)
- Muratsuchi — coauthor (person)
- Nguyen — coauthor (person)
- Pacheco — coauthor (person)
- Patel — coauthor (person)
- Patterson — coauthor (person)
- Pellerin — coauthor (person)
- Petrie-Norris — coauthor (person)
- Quirk-Silva — coauthor (person)
- Ramos — coauthor (person)
- Ransom — coauthor (person)
- Rogers — coauthor (person)
- Schiavo — coauthor (person)
- Schultz — coauthor (person)
- Sharp-Collins — coauthor (person)
- Solache — coauthor (person)
- Soria — coauthor (person)
- Stefani — coauthor (person)
- Ta — coauthor (person)
- Tangipa — coauthor (person)
- Wallis — coauthor (person)
- Ward — coauthor (person)
- Wicks — coauthor (person)
- Wilson — coauthor (person)
- Zbur — coauthor (person)
- Ávila Farías — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2025-03-11** Introduced. To print. `introduction`
- **2025-03-12** From printer.
- **2025-03-13** Referred to Com. on RLS. `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-13** From committee: Be adopted. Ordered to Third Reading. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (March 13). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, reading-1`
- **2025-03-17** Coauthors revised.
- **2025-03-17** Adopted and to Senate. (Page 645.) `amendment-passage, passage`
- **2025-03-18** In Senate. To Com. on RLS.
- **2025-03-26** From committee: Ordered to third reading. `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-01** Ordered to special consent calendar.
- **2025-04-03** Adopted and to Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 644.) `amendment-passage, passage`
- **2025-04-03** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-08** Enrolled and filed with the Secretary of State at 2 p.m.
- **2025-04-08** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Res. Chapter 34, Statutes of 2025. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/11297c6b-94cb-4adb-9191-29d9d25aad31`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).