Bill Text: CA ACR45 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Chaptered

California Assembly Concurrent Resolution 45 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: California Holocaust Memorial Week.

Spectrum: Broadly Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Passed) 2009-05-20 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Res. Chapter 28, Statutes of 2009. [ACR45 Detail]

Download: California-2009-ACR45-Chaptered.html

BILL NUMBER: ACR 45	CHAPTERED
	BILL TEXT

	RESOLUTION CHAPTER  28
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  MAY 20, 2009
	ADOPTED IN SENATE  MAY 14, 2009
	ADOPTED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 27, 2009
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 27, 2009
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 31, 2009

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Members Ruskin and Feuer
   (Coauthors: Assembly Members Anderson, Bill Berryhill, Block,
Blumenfield, Brownley, Caballero, Carter, De Leon, DeVore, Eng,
Fletcher, Fong, Fuentes, Gaines, Garrick, Gilmore, Hagman, Hall,
Hayashi, Huffman, Jeffries, Lieu, Bonnie Lowenthal, Ma, Mendoza,
Monning, Nava, Niello, John A. Perez, Portantino, Price, Salas,
Saldana, Silva, Smyth, Solorio, Torlakson, Yamada, Adams, Ammiano,
Arambula, Bass, Beall, Tom Berryhill, Blakeslee, Buchanan, Charles
Calderon, Chesbro, Conway, Cook, Coto, Davis, De La Torre, Duvall,
Emmerson, Evans, Fuller, Furutani, Galgiani, Harkey, Hernandez, Hill,
Huber, Jones, Knight, Krekorian, Logue, Miller, Nestande, Nielsen,
V. Manuel Perez, Skinner, Audra Strickland, Swanson, Torres, Torrico,
Tran, and Villines)
   (Coauthors: Senators Cedillo, Cox, DeSaulnier, Florez, and Runner)

                        MARCH 4, 2009

   Relative to California Holocaust Memorial Week.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   ACR 45, Ruskin. California Holocaust Memorial Week.
   This measure would proclaim April 20 through April 26, 2009, as
California Holocaust Memorial Week and would urge Californians to
observe these days of remembrance for the victims of the Holocaust in
an appropriate manner.



   WHEREAS, The Holocaust was a tragedy of proportions the world had
never before witnessed; and
   WHEREAS, More than 60 years have passed since the tragic events we
now call the Holocaust transpired, in which the dictatorship of Nazi
Germany murdered six million Jews as part of a systematic program of
genocide known as "The Final Solution of the Jewish Question"; and
   WHEREAS, Jews were the primary victims, but they were not alone.
Five million other people were murdered in Nazi concentration camps
as part of a carefully orchestrated, state-sponsored program of
cultural, social, and political annihilation under the Nazi tyranny;
and
   WHEREAS, We must teach our children and future generations that
the individual and communal acts of heroism during the Holocaust
serve as a powerful example of how our nation and its citizens can,
and must, respond to acts of hatred and inhumanity; and
   WHEREAS, We must always remind ourselves of the horrible events of
the Holocaust and remain vigilant against hatred, persecution, and
tyranny lest these atrocities be repeated; and
   WHEREAS, We, the people of California, should actively rededicate
ourselves to the principles of human rights, individual freedom, and
equal protection under the laws of a just and democratic society; and

   WHEREAS, Each person in California should set aside moments of his
or her time every year to give remembrance to those who lost their
lives in the Holocaust; and
   WHEREAS, The United States Holocaust Memorial Council has
designated April 21 through April 23, 2009, as the Days of
Remembrance of the Victims of the Holocaust, including the
International Day of Remembrance, known as Yom HaShoah, on April 21,
2009; and
   WHEREAS, According to Elie Wiesel, a Holocaust survivor and
nationally recognized scholar, "... a memorial unresponsive to the
future would violate the memory of the past"; now, therefore, be it
   Resolved by the Assembly of the State of California, the Senate
thereof concurring, That April 20 through April 26, 2009, be
proclaimed "California Holocaust Memorial Week," and that
Californians are urged to observe these days of remembrance for
victims of the Holocaust in an appropriate manner; and be it further
   Resolved, That the Chief Clerk of the Assembly transmit sufficient
copies of this resolution to the author for appropriate
distribution.