Relative to tariffs.

Header changed from enrolled bill format (with Senate and Assembly adoption dates and clerk signatures) to chaptered format with 'STATE OF CALIFORNIA AUTHENTICATED ELECTRONIC LEGAL MATERIAL' and 'RESOLUTION CHAPTER 205' designation.

Filing date added: 'Filed with Secretary of State August 24, 2026.'

Page numbering changed from 'SJR 7' references to 'Res. Ch. 205' references throughout the document.

Signature blocks for Secretary of the Senate and Chief Clerk of the Assembly, along with the receipt-by-Secretary-of-State line, were removed as they are no longer needed in the chaptered version.

The operative resolution no longer specifically urges Congress to terminate the national state of emergency declared on April 2, 2025 or to oppose future IEEPA-based emergency declarations. It now more broadly urges Congress to enact a joint resolution to rescind tariffs and oppose future unilateral tariff increases, without naming a specific statutory mechanism.

Two WHEREAS clauses were deleted: one citing a Yale Budget Lab projection that tariffs would decrease average household purchasing power by up to $2,800 per year, and another citing a Brookings Institution analysis projecting a 1.3 percent inflation increase from Canada and Mexico tariffs.

Several tense changes reflect that tariff effects have already materialized rather than being projected: 'will be hit hardest' became 'have been hit hardest,' 'set to rise' became 'rising,' and 'for the beginning in May 2025' was corrected to 'in May 2025.'

South Korea was renamed to its formal designation 'the Republic of Korea' in the WHEREAS clause about strained alliances.

The first resolution now urges President Trump not only to rescind tariffs but also to refund the American people for costs passed on to them by his tariffs.

The second resolution's language was strengthened from opposing 'future tariff increases by President Trump' to opposing 'future unilateral and arbitrary tariff increases imposed by President Trump.'

New WHEREAS clause cites the February 20, 2026 Supreme Court 6-3 decision (written by Chief Justice Roberts) ruling that Trump exceeded his constitutional authority under IEEPA to impose sweeping tariffs, and illegally imposed the largest tax increase on working families and small businesses in a lifetime.

New WHEREAS clause notes that despite the Supreme Court rebuke, President Trump has invoked alternative statutory authority to continue imposing sweeping tariffs without congressional authorization, prolonging economic uncertainty and straining separation of powers.

New WHEREAS clause states that American consumers paid more than $231 billion in tariff costs between February 2025 and January 2026, an average of approximately $1,751 per household nationwide, with California households projected to lose between $1,900 and $2,000.

The list of affected households was expanded from 'low-income American households' to 'low-income and middle-class American households.'

The list of threatened allies now includes the European Union (previously only the United Kingdom, Japan, and South Korea), and 'South Korea' was changed to 'the Republic of Korea.'

Dozens of Assembly Members were added as coauthors, indicating broader bipartisan or cross-chamber support for the resolution.

New WHEREAS clauses at the beginning assert that Article I Section 8 of the US Constitution vests Congress with exclusive authority to regulate commerce with foreign nations, and that this power is among the most consequential because of its direct effect on prices, wages, investment, diplomacy, and national economic stability.

Ten additional coauthors were added (Senators Allen, Archuleta, Blakespear, Caballero, Cortese, Laird, McNerney, Richardson, Stern, and Wahab), broadening the resolution's sponsorship from a single author to eleven senators.

The digest and first resolved clause were corrected from garbled text ('rescind avoid raising the cost of living...by rescinding the increase in tariffs') to a coherent statement: 'avoid raising the cost of living for American consumers by rescinding the tariffs that he has imposed since taking office in January 2025.'

Typo corrections: 'counties' changed to 'countries' in the description of the IEEPA tariff, and 'Brookings Institute' corrected to 'Brookings Institution.'

New WHEREAS clause citing an April 30, 2025 letter from US Chamber of Commerce CEO Suzanne Clark to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, stating that many small businesses will suffer irreparable harm and their ability to survive is endangered by the tariff increases.

New WHEREAS clause noting California farmers exported over $23 billion in food in 2022 (almonds, dairy, pistachios, wine) and citing a 2024 UC Giannini Foundation study projecting $3.1 to $4.8 billion in annual export losses for California agribusiness under reciprocal 10 percent tariffs.

The final WHEREAS paragraph was expanded to add that tariffs will 'leave small businesses reeling from unpredictable periods of tariffs being imposed then paused without warning,' before the existing language about undermining US global standing.

The first Resolved clause was changed from urging Trump to 'rescind the increase in tariffs' to urging him to 'rescind avoid raising the cost of living for American consumers by rescinding the increase in tariffs,' reframing the resolution around consumer cost impact.

Minor wording change in line 2 from 'both American political parties' to 'both major American political parties,' and a grammatical correction from '[which]' to '[that]' in the Project 2025 description.