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type: "Bill"
title: "Relative to Black History Month."
description: "This measure would recognize February 2025 as Black History Month, urge all citizens to join in celebrating the accomplishments of African Americans during Black History Month, and encourage the people of California to recognize the many talents of African Americans and the achievements and contributions they make to their communities to create equity and equality for education, economics, and social justice. The measure would also recognize the significance in protecting citizens' right to vote and remedying racial discrimination in voting."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20252026"
identifier: "SCR 21"
citation: "California SCR 21 (20252026)"
classification: ["concurrent resolution"]
subjects: ["BlackHistoryMonth"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Smallwood-Cuevas"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 10
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-02-11"
last_action: "2025-03-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/54a28f9a-b956-4409-98ae-84a149d10bac"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SCR21"
source_hash: "396f9a3d4a6a87f20f47c200eb84eae65cd06138cddfb9f52d04306ef1356d76"
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 21 (20252026) — Relative to Black History Month.
This measure would recognize February 2025 as Black History Month, urge all citizens to join in celebrating the accomplishments of African Americans during Black History Month, and encourage the people of California to recognize the many talents of African Americans and the achievements and contributions they make to their communities to create equity and equality for education, economics, and social justice. The measure would also recognize the significance in protecting citizens' right to vote and remedying racial discrimination in voting.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **02/11/25 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SCR21&version=20250SCR2199INT)
2. **03/25/25 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SCR21&version=20250SCR2197CHP)
3. **SCR21** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SCR21)
4. **03/21/25 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SCR21&version=20250SCR2198ENR)
## Votes
- 3rd Reading SCR21 Smallwood-Cuevas — **370** (pass) · upper
- SCR 21 Smallwood-Cuevas Consent Calendar Second Day — **660** (pass) · lower
- Be adopted. To Consent Calendar. — **100** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Smallwood-Cuevas — primary (person)
- Bonta — coauthor (person)
- Bryan — coauthor (person)
- Elhawary — coauthor (person)
- Gipson — coauthor (person)
- Jackson — coauthor (person)
- McKinnor — coauthor (person)
- Ransom — coauthor (person)
- Richardson — principal coauthor (person)
- Sharp-Collins — coauthor (person)
- Weber Pierson — principal coauthor (person)
- Wilson — coauthor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-02-11** Introduced. Referred to Com. on RLS. `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-19** From committee: Ordered to third reading. `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-24** Read. Adopted. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 271.) Ordered to the Assembly. `amendment-passage, passage, reading-1`
- **2025-02-24** In Assembly. Held at Desk.
- **2025-03-03** Referred to Com. on RLS. `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-17** From committee: Be adopted. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (March 17). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-20** Read. Adopted. (Ayes 66. Noes 0. Page 774.) Ordered to the Senate. `amendment-passage, passage, reading-1`
- **2025-03-20** In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
- **2025-03-25** Enrolled and filed with the Secretary of State at 2 p.m.
- **2025-03-25** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Res. Chapter 28, 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/54a28f9a-b956-4409-98ae-84a149d10bac`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).