Bill Text: CA SCR132 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Hire a Veteran Day.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 10-5)

Status: (Passed) 2024-08-13 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Res. Chapter 161, Statutes of 2024. [SCR132 Detail]

Download: California-2023-SCR132-Introduced.html

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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION

Senate Concurrent Resolution

No. 132

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Introduced by Senator Seyarto
(Principal coauthors: Senators Archuleta, Dahle, Jones, Menjivar, Niello, Ochoa Bogh, Roth, Umberg, and Wilk)
(Principal coauthors: Assembly Members Alanis, Mathis, and Jim Patterson)

April 08, 2024

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Relative to Hire a Veteran Day.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

SCR 132, as introduced, Seyarto. Hire a Veteran Day.

This measure would proclaim July 25, 2024, as Hire a Veteran Day.

Digest Key

Fiscal Committee: NO  

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Bill Text

WHEREAS, Roughly 200,000 service members retire or separate from the armed services every year, and many find themselves unable to find employment leading to an increase in the homeless veteran population in the state; and

WHEREAS, California is home to 1,800,000 veterans and the state’s homeless veteran population makes up about 31 percent of the entire nation’s homeless veteran population; and

WHEREAS, As service members transition from military life to the civilian world many seek new careers to apply their skills in the civilian world; and

WHEREAS, Veterans bring competitive skills to civilian jobs, along with core values like loyalty, duty, respect, selflessness, honor, integrity, and personal courage; and

WHEREAS, Finding and competing for civilian positions can be challenging for a transitioning veteran; and

WHEREAS, Veterans 35 to 54 years of age are constantly at higher levels of unemployment in California compared to the nonveteran population, and this is also true for veterans in the 55 to 64 age group; and

WHEREAS, Competing for civilian jobs can be daunting, but government support for National Hire a Veteran Day is what makes it unique from other holidays that focus on veterans; and

WHEREAS, United States Marine Corps Veteran and Hire Our Heroes founder Dan Caporale created National Hire a Veteran Day in 2017 as a call to action for hiring companies and also to encourage veteran job applicants; and

WHEREAS, National Hire a Veteran Day aims to inspire employers to recruit and hire veterans by recognizing the unique skills and values former service members can bring to the workforce; and

WHEREAS, Thursday, July 25th, is celebrated as National Hire a Veteran Day each year to honor veterans who have sacrificed for the United States; now, therefore, be it

Resolved by the Senate of the State of California, the Assembly thereof concurring, That the Legislature recognizes July 25, 2024, as Hire a Veteran Day in honor of our nation’s heroes; and be it further

Resolved, That the Secretary of the Senate transmit copies of this resolution to the author for appropriate distribution.