THIRD READING

Bill No: ACR 35

Author: Calderon (D), et al.

Introduced: 3/6/23

Vote: 21

ASSEMBLY FLOOR: 74-0, 3/23/23 (Consent) - See last page for vote

SUBJECT: World Behavior Analysis Day

SOURCE: California Association for Behavior Analysis

DIGEST:

This resolution designates March 20, 2023, as World Behavior Analysis Day.

ANALYSIS: This resolution makes the following legislative findings:

The profession of behavior analysis is a natural science of behavior that was first developed in the 1930s.
Behavior analytic researchers use the methods of the basic science, the experimental analysis of behavior, to address questions about how behavior works and how it changes.
Starting in the 1940s and 1950s, some behavioral scientists showed that the principles and procedures discovered by early researchers could be used to build useful skills in people with developmental and psychiatric disorders.
Early applied behavior analysts implemented interventions in schools, homes, and other everyday settings, emphasizing the use of positive reinforcement to help individuals improve behaviors that were important to them and to those with whom they interacted.
The discipline has grown substantially so that behavior analysis is now a robust field with theoretical, experimental, and applied branches and distinct research methods, scientific journals, textbooks, scholarly and professional organizations, and university training programs.

This resolution designates March 20, 2023, as World Behavior Analysis Day in California.

FISCAL EFFECT: Appropriation: No Fiscal Com.: No Local: No

SUPPORT: (Verified 4/10/23)

California Association for Behavior Analysis (source)

OPPOSITION: (Verified 4/10/23)

None received

ASSEMBLY FLOOR: 74-0, 3/23/23

AYES: Addis, Aguiar-Curry, Alanis, Alvarez, Arambula, Bains, Bauer-Kahan, Bennett, Berman, Boerner Horvath, Bonta, Bryan, Calderon, Juan Carrillo, Connolly, Megan Dahle, Davies, Dixon, Essayli, Flora, Mike Fong, Vince Fong, Friedman, Gabriel, Gallagher, Garcia, Gipson, Grayson, Haney, Hart, Holden, Hoover, Irwin, Jackson, Jones-Sawyer, Kalra, Lackey, Lee, Low, Lowenthal, McKinnor, Muratsuchi, Stephanie Nguyen, Ortega, Pacheco, Papan, Jim Patterson, Joe Patterson, Pellerin, Petrie-Norris, Quirk-Silva, Ramos, Reyes, Luz Rivas, Robert Rivas, Rodriguez, Blanca Rubio, Sanchez, Santiago, Schiavo, Soria, Ta, Ting, Valencia, Villapudua, Waldron, Wallis, Ward, Weber, Wicks, Wilson, Wood, Zbur, Rendon

NO VOTE RECORDED: Wendy Carrillo, Cervantes, Chen, Maienschein, Mathis, McCarty

Prepared by: Karen Chow / SFA / (916) 651-1520

4/12/23 13:59:22

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ACR 35: World Behavior Analysis Day.

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