republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20252026/acr-8.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relative to World Desert Day."
description: "This measure would recognize the 2nd Saturday of January each year as World Desert Day in California, and would encourage local jurisdictions to partner with organizations, agencies, or community groups to host educational programs and community celebrations highlighting desert conservation."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20252026"
identifier: "ACR 8"
citation: "California ACR 8 (20252026)"
classification: ["concurrent resolution"]
subjects: ["Desertecosystems"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Wallis"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 15
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2024-12-13"
last_action: "2025-02-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bf97d642-9003-4399-87c4-9007440e4076"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260ACR8"
source_hash: "befd9f1934d9d68be0f86c28cb382a97c214444320b5d1216d509be1dfe55b3a"
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 8 (20252026) — Relative to World Desert Day.

This measure would recognize the 2nd Saturday of January each year as World Desert Day in California, and would encourage local jurisdictions to partner with organizations, agencies, or community groups to host educational programs and community celebrations highlighting desert conservation.

## Version chain

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

1. **12/13/24 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260ACR8&version=20250ACR899INT)
2. **02/04/25 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260ACR8&version=20250ACR897CHP)
3. **ACR8** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260ACR8)
4. **01/31/25 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260ACR8&version=20250ACR898ENR)

## Votes

- Special Consent ACR8 Wallis et al. — **36–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Wallis — 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)
- Carrillo — coauthor (person)
- Castillo — coauthor (person)
- Chen — coauthor (person)
- Connolly — coauthor (person)
- Davies — coauthor (person)
- DeMaio — coauthor (person)
- Essayli — coauthor (person)
- Fong — coauthor (person)
- Gallagher — coauthor (person)
- Garcia — coauthor (person)
- Gipson — coauthor (person)
- Hadwick — coauthor (person)
- Haney — coauthor (person)
- Hart — coauthor (person)
- Hoover — 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)
- Ortega — coauthor (person)
- Pacheco — coauthor (person)
- Papan — coauthor (person)
- Patel — coauthor (person)
- Patterson — coauthor (person)
- Petrie-Norris — coauthor (person)
- Quirk-Silva — coauthor (person)
- Ramos — coauthor (person)
- Ransom — coauthor (person)
- Rivas — coauthor (person)
- Rogers — coauthor (person)
- Schiavo — coauthor (person)
- Sharp-Collins — coauthor (person)
- Solache — coauthor (person)
- Soria — coauthor (person)
- Stefani — coauthor (person)
- Ta — coauthor (person)
- Tangipa — coauthor (person)
- Valencia — coauthor (person)
- Ward — coauthor (person)
- Wicks — coauthor (person)
- Wilson — coauthor (person)
- Ávila Farías — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-12-13** Introduced. To print. `introduction`
- **2024-12-14** From printer.
- **2025-01-06** Without reference to committee. `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-06** Ordered to second reading.
- **2025-01-07** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-01-09** Coauthors revised.
- **2025-01-09** Adopted and to Senate. (Page 144.) `amendment-passage, passage`
- **2025-01-13** In Senate. To Com. on RLS.
- **2025-01-22** From committee: Ordered to third reading. `committee-passage`
- **2025-01-28** Ordered to special consent calendar.
- **2025-01-29** Introduced measure version corrected. `introduction`
- **2025-01-30** Adopted and to Assembly. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 130.) `amendment-passage, passage`
- **2025-01-30** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-04** Enrolled and filed with the Secretary of State at 4 p.m.
- **2025-02-04** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Res. Chapter 2, 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/bf97d642-9003-4399-87c4-9007440e4076`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).