Bill Text: CA AB2698 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Route 405: Little Saigon Freeway.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Enrolled) 2024-08-26 - Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 76. Noes 0.). [AB2698 Detail]
Download: California-2023-AB2698-Amended.html
Amended
IN
Assembly
May 16, 2024 |
Amended
IN
Assembly
March 21, 2024 |
Introduced by Assembly Member Ta |
February 14, 2024 |
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: NOBill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:(a)In April 1975, the capital of South Vietnam, Saigon, fell to the Vietnamese communists, and over the following 48 years, millions of Vietnamese have fled communist oppression in their homeland.
(b)More than
(c)
(d)
(e)
(f)One can find all types of
services and businesses in Little Saigon, including restaurants, supermarkets, medical clinics and centers, pharmacies, and law offices serving the Vietnamese American community, as well as other local and surrounding area residents in the County of Orange.
(g)Tết festivals and parades in Little Saigon celebrating the Vietnamese lunar new year have attracted thousands of participants.
(h)Vietnamese voters in Little Saigon are now a significant voting bloc, and Vietnamese Americans are political leaders on the city councils of the Cities of Fountain Valley, Garden Grove, Santa Ana, and Westminster, and on the Orange County Board of Supervisors, as well as on the school boards in school districts serving these areas.
(i)The Vietnamese community in Little Saigon pioneered many political movements, demanding freedom
in Vietnam and fighting against the oppression and dictatorship carried out by the totalitarian communist regime, whose oppression is the main reason for slow economic growth in Vietnam.
(j)The Vietnamese community has launched a campaign demanding the immediate release of all prisoners of conscience, who mainly ask that fundamental human rights be afforded to all of Vietnam’s citizens and seek the separation of powers and removal of the one-party system.