Bill
SCR 53
Declares April 14–25, 2025 as High School Voter Education Weeks and urges local districts to provide at least one week of nonpartisan, 9–12 voter education activities.
Note: the supplied materials contain multiple different documents labelled “SCR 53” from different states and on different subjects. The summary below focuses on the principal, cohesive text in Document 2 — the California Senate Concurrent Resolution (Pérez) establishing “High School Voter Education Weeks” — which contains the substantive policy provisions in the packet.
Title
- Senate Concurrent Resolution (SCR) 53 (Pérez) — Declares Monday, April 14, 2025 through Friday, April 25, 2025 as High School Voter Education Weeks and encourages voter education activities for high school students.
Purpose and intent
- Promote civic engagement and youth voter participation by encouraging local educational agencies (LEAs) to conduct focused voter education for students in grades 9–12 during one of the two designated weeks in April.
- Provide students with history, knowledge, skills and resources to participate in the electoral process and to counter low youth turnout and civic disengagement.
Key provisions
- Designation: Declares April 14–25, 2025 (two-week span) as High School Voter Education Weeks.
- Strong encouragement (non‑binding): LEAs are strongly encouraged to dedicate at least one of those two weeks to instruction for grades 9–12 on the electoral process.
- Instruction topics: The resolution lists a comprehensive set of instructional topics (31 items), including:
- importance of youth voting; voter registration; ballot structure; ballot measures; campaigns and campaign finance; political parties; voter ID laws; early/absentee/mail voting; election security and voting technology;
- civic engagement, civic duty, political and media literacy, informed voting; research/information literacy; history of voter suppression; historical disparities in voting rates and intersectionality; community impact of elections; methods to improve turnout.
- Resources and partnerships:
- Encourages LEAs to provide necessary digital and physical resources to support instruction.
- Encourages governing boards/bodies of LEAs to (voluntarily) contract with experienced, nonpartisan nonprofit organizations for youth civic engagement to help deliver the instruction.
- Administrative action: Requests the Secretary of the Senate to transmit copies of the resolution to the State Department of Education and to the author for distribution.
Who is affected
- Local educational agencies (school districts, county offices of education), high school students (grades 9–12), school personnel, county elections officials (already authorized per Education Code §49040 to register pupils and staff on campus during designated weeks), and nonprofit civic‑engagement groups that may be engaged to support programs.
Procedural and fiscal notes
- Classification: Concurrent resolution (nonbinding encouragement, not statutory change).
- Fiscal Committee: No (no fiscal impact indicated).
- Status (from provided record): Introduced May 28, 2025; sent to the Secretary of State by the Secretary of the Senate on May 30, 2025. (Because the packet includes multiple SCR53 action lines across jurisdictions, consult the official legislative clerk for the final certified status in the relevant legislature.)
Potential impact
- Expected to increase attention and resources for civic education in high schools during the designated period, though implementation depends on voluntary action by LEAs and local partners. Because the measure is advisory rather than mandatory, actual reach and uniformity of programs will vary by district and available resources.
Compiled from official sources — confirm details with the bill’s official record.
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