Bill Text: CA ACR46 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Girl Scouts.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 44-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2010-04-19 - In Senate. To Com. on RLS. [ACR46 Detail]

Download: California-2009-ACR46-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: ACR 46	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  FEBRUARY 16, 2010

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Saldana
   (Coauthor: Senator Wolk)

                        MARCH 5, 2009

   Relative to Women's History Month and International Women's Day.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   ACR 46, as amended, Saldana. Women's History Month and
International Women's Day.
   This measure would proclaim the month of March  2009
  2010  as Women's History Month and urge all
Californians to join in the celebration of International Women's Day
on March 8,  2009   2010  .
   Fiscal committee: no.



   WHEREAS, American women of every culture, class, and ethnic
background have participated in the founding and building of our
nation, have made historic contributions to the growth and strength
of our nation, and have played a critical role in shaping the
economic, cultural, and social fabric of our society, not in the
least of ways through their participation in the labor force, working
both inside and outside the home; and
   WHEREAS, Women have been leaders in every movement for social
change, including their own movement for suffrage and equal rights,
the fight for emancipation, the struggle to organize labor unions,
and the civil rights movement, as well as leading the call for peace
and organizing to preserve the environment; and
   WHEREAS, In light of these efforts and the achievements of all
American women, we take this opportunity to honor women and their
contribution to the development of our society and our world; and
   WHEREAS, The celebration of Women's History Month will provide an
opportunity for schools and communities to focus attention on the
historical role and accomplishments of the women of California and
the United States, and for students, in particular, to benefit from
an awareness of these contributions; and
   WHEREAS, Women's History Month will include International Women's
Day on March 8, which was originally proclaimed in 1910 to recognize
and commemorate the valuable contributions women have made to the
labor movement in improving working conditions, and thus bettering
people's lives; and
   WHEREAS, Women's History Month will be not only a call to
acknowledge the outstanding American women whose names we know, but
also a call to pay homage to the many women who have anonymously
shaped our collective past; and
   WHEREAS, The achievements of women who have gone before us will
enable contemporary women and men to create tomorrow's history by
working toward an end to physical and sexual violence against women,
discrimination and harassment in employment, and the relegation to
poverty status of many women, and by advocating for the full
participation of women in the economic and political arena, the
provision of adequate child care, respect for those who choose
homemaking and motherhood as their career, and equal access to all of
the opportunities this great nation has to offer; and
   WHEREAS, The story of the women's rights movement deserves telling
because of the significance and scope of women's role in making
history and shaping the cultural and societal makeup of California
and the United States, and because it is a rich part of our common
heritage, a story of gallantry and devotion to the belief that the
opportunity for complete human dignity should not be denied to
one-half of the state and the nation; now, therefore, be it
   Resolved by the Assembly of the State of California, the Senate
thereof concurring, That the Legislature of the State of California
proclaims the month of March  2009   2010 
as Women's History Month and urges all Californians to join in the
celebration of International Women's Day on March 8,  2009
  2010  ; and be it further
   Resolved, That the Chief Clerk of the Assembly transmit copies of
this resolution to the Chair of the California Legislative Women's
Caucus for distribution to appropriate organizations.