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CA SR58

Resolution

Status

Passed

8/25/2025

Primary Sponsor

Catherine Blakespear

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Origin

Senate

2025-2026 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Commemorates August 18, 2025, as the 105th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, which guaranteed American women the right to vote when ratified in 1920

  • Recognizes California as the sixth state to approve women's suffrage in 1911, nearly a decade before the federal amendment was ratified

  • Honors suffragists including Sojourner Truth, Lucretia Mott, Susan B. Anthony, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton for their advocacy efforts spanning nearly a century

  • Acknowledges that women of color and women with disabilities were not fully guaranteed voting rights until the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990

  • Notes that California currently has women holding a majority of state legislative seats for the first time in state history

Legislative Description

Relative to the anniversary of the 19th Amendment.

Last Action

Read. Adopted. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 2248.)

8/25/2025

Committee Referrals

Rules7/17/2025

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