Bill Text: CA SCR126 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Enrolled

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Bill Title: Honorable Edward Ross Roybal.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2016-08-17 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Res. Chapter 106, Statutes of 2016. [SCR126 Detail]

Download: California-2015-SCR126-Enrolled.html

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BILL NUMBER: SCR 126	ENROLLED
	BILL TEXT

	ADOPTED IN SENATE  JUNE 30, 2016
	ADOPTED IN ASSEMBLY  AUGUST 11, 2016

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Lara

                        MARCH 31, 2016

   Relative to Honorable Edward Ross Roybal.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SCR 126, Lara. Honorable Edward Ross Roybal.
   This measure would recognize the contributions of Honorable Edward
Ross Roybal on the 100th anniversary of his birth.



   WHEREAS, The Honorable Edward Ross Roybal was among the country's
most influential Latino leaders, serving in the United States Army
during the Second World War, as a member of the Los Angeles City
Council for 13 years, and as a Member of the United States Congress
for 30 years; and
   WHEREAS, Edward Ross Roybal was one of 10 children born to
Baudilio Roybal, a carpenter, and Eloisa Roybal on February 10, 1916,
in Albuquerque, New Mexico; and
   WHEREAS, At the age of six, Mr. Roybal moved with his family to
Los Angeles, California, where he attended local public schools and
graduated from Roosevelt High School; and
   WHEREAS, After graduating high school, Mr. Roybal worked for the
Civilian Conservation Corps before studying accounting and business
administration at the University of California, Los Angeles, and
Southwestern University; and
   WHEREAS, Mr. Roybal worked as a public health educator with the
California Tuberculosis Controllers Association and later served four
years as director of health education for the Los Angeles County
Tuberculosis and Health Association; and
   WHEREAS, In World War II, Mr. Roybal served as an accountant for
an infantry unit in the United States Army; and
   WHEREAS, Mr. Roybal married Lucille Beserra on September 27, 1940,
and the couple raised three children: Lucille, Lillian, and Edward,
Jr.; and
   WHEREAS, Mr. Roybal helped start the Community Service
Organization (CSO), which sought to ally the city's diverse
neighborhoods to push progressive issues such as challenging
discrimination in southern California, especially its effects on
economic, education, and housing conditions around Los Angeles; and
   WHEREAS, In 1949, Mr. Roybal was elected as a Los Angeles City
Council member, becoming the first Latino to hold that position since
1881 and one of the highest-ranking Latinos in California municipal
government; and
   WHEREAS, As a city council member, Mr. Roybal worked to defuse
tensions between the Mexican American community and the Los Angeles
police and fought the city after it ceded a huge swath of residential
land to its professional baseball team, displacing many Mexican
American families; and
   WHEREAS, In 1962, Mr. Roybal was elected to the United States
Congress where he served for 30 years fighting ethnic, racial, and
age discrimination and working to reform the public education system
to increase access to bilingual education; and
   WHEREAS, In 1976, Mr. Roybal helped found the Congressional
Hispanic Caucus (CHC), a legislative service organization that
monitored policy directly affecting the nation's Latino communities.
Mr. Roybal became the first chairman of the CHC and encouraged United
States President Jimmy Carter to hire more Latino Americans in his
administration; and
   WHEREAS, During his chairmanship of the CHC, Mr. Roybal founded
the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials
(NALEO), a nonpartisan organization that facilitates full Latino
participation in the American political process, from citizenship to
public service, and that provides national leadership on key issues
that affect Latino participation in our political process, including
immigration and naturalization, voting rights, election reform, the
federal census, and the appointment of qualified Latinos to top
executive and judicial positions; and
   WHEREAS, In 1993, Mr. Roybal retired from the United States House
of Representatives and moved back to Los Angeles, where he lived for
12 more years until his death in 2005, still deeply involved in the
community he had long served; now, therefore, be it
   Resolved by the Senate of the State of California, the Assembly
thereof concurring, That on the 100th anniversary of his birth, the
Legislature recognizes the contributions of Honorable Edward Ross
Roybal, a cofounder and the first chairman of the Congressional
Hispanic Caucus and a celebrated Latino leader in Los Angeles,
California, and the United States; and be it further
   Resolved, That the Secretary of the Senate transmit copies of this
resolution to the author for appropriate distribution.