Bill Text: CA ACR53 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Sober Graduation Month.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 48-17)

Status: (Passed) 2013-07-01 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Res. Chapter 58, Statutes of 2013. [ACR53 Detail]

Download: California-2013-ACR53-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: ACR 53	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Quirk-Silva

                        APRIL 24, 2013

   Relative to Sober Graduation Month.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   ACR 53, as introduced, Quirk-Silva. Sober Graduation Month.
   This measure would designate May 31, 2013, to June 30, 2013,
inclusive, as Sober Graduation Month and would encourage Californians
to participate in this observance and join the Department of the
California Highway Patrol in supporting efforts to save lives of
young people through a Sober Graduation Month.
   Fiscal committee: no.



   WHEREAS, The Sober Graduation Program is an effective, antidrunk
driving campaign geared toward high school seniors; and
   WHEREAS, In 2012, according to the National Center for Statistics
and Analysis, an office of the National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration, over 1,500 drivers between 15 and 20 years of age
were involved in alcohol-related motor vehicle accidents during the
months of May and June; and
   WHEREAS, Since the Sober Graduation Program was established, the
number of alcohol-related motor vehicle accidents involving young
people has dramatically declined; and
   WHEREAS, Pupils, teachers, parents, civic groups, law enforcement,
and the business community should join together to raise public
awareness of alcohol-related deaths and injuries, and encourage
alcohol-free and drug-free graduation ceremonies that commence in May
2013 and will last until July 2013; now, therefore, be it
   Resolved by the Assembly of the State of California, the Senate
thereof concurring, That the Legislature hereby designates May 31,
2013, to June 30, 2013, inclusive, as Sober Graduation Month; and be
it further
   Resolved, That all Californians are hereby encouraged to
participate in this observance and join with the Department of the
California Highway Patrol in supporting efforts to save the lives of
young people through a Sober Graduation Month; and be it further
   Resolved, That the Chief Clerk of the Assembly transmit a copy of
this resolution to the author for appropriate distribution.