Bill Text: CA SCR46 | 2021-2022 | Regular Session | Enrolled

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Bill Title: California Tourism Month.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 57-16-1)

Status: (Passed) 2021-07-16 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Res. Chapter 91, Statutes of 2021. [SCR46 Detail]

Download: California-2021-SCR46-Enrolled.html

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Enrolled  July 13, 2021

Passed  IN  Senate  May 20, 2021

Passed  IN  Assembly  July 08, 2021

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2021–2022 REGULAR SESSION

Senate Concurrent Resolution

No. 46

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Introduced by Senator Umberg
(Principal coauthor: Assembly Member Quirk-Silva)
(Coauthors: Assembly Members Aguiar-Curry, Arambula, Bauer-Kahan, Bennett, Bigelow, Bloom, Boerner Horvath, Bryan, Burke, Calderon, Carrillo, Cervantes, Chau, Chiu, Choi, Cooley, Cooper, Megan Dahle, Daly, Davies, Flora, Fong, Frazier, Friedman, Gabriel, Gallagher, Cristina Garcia, Eduardo Garcia, Gipson, Lorena Gonzalez, Gray, Grayson, Holden, Irwin, Jones-Sawyer, Kalra, Kiley, Lackey, Levine, Low, Maienschein, Mathis, Mayes, McCarty, Medina, Mullin, Nazarian, O’Donnell, Patterson, Petrie-Norris, Quirk, Ramos, Rendon, Reyes, Luz Rivas, Robert Rivas, Rodriguez, Blanca Rubio, Salas, Santiago, Seyarto, Smith, Stone, Ting, Valladares, Villapudua, Voepel, Waldron, Ward, Akilah Weber, Wicks, and Wood)

May 11, 2021

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Relative to California Tourism Month.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

SCR 46, Umberg. California Tourism Month.

This measure would proclaim the month of May 2021 as California Tourism Month and would urge the citizens of this great state to support tourism and local businesses by traveling in state as an act of civic pride.

Digest Key

Fiscal Committee: NO  

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Bill Text

WHEREAS, Tourism has been a consistent driver of California’s economy and workforce; and

WHEREAS, A robust travel industry provides significant economic benefits for California, generating more than $144 billion dollars in visitor spending in 2019; and

WHEREAS, Travel has been the foundation of a healthy workforce, serving as one of the largest private-sector employers in California, supporting 1.2 million jobs in 2019; and

WHEREAS, Spending by travelers benefits all Californians, generating $12.2 billion dollars in state and local tax revenue in 2019 to support essential public services and programs; and

WHEREAS, Travel and tourism-dependent businesses and organizations, 83 percent of which are small businesses, are responsible for welcoming visitors from all around the world to explore California and all our state has to offer; and

WHEREAS, In 2020, the coronavirus pandemic devastated every sector of the travel industry with staggering economic consequences, affecting every community in California; and

WHEREAS, California lost $79.8 billion dollars in visitor spending in 2020, a 55-percent decline from the previous year, and lost $6.1 billion dollars in tax revenue, a 50-percent drop; and

WHEREAS, Nearly one million of Californians working in travel and hospitality lost their jobs in the first month of the pandemic and the employment sector remains by far the hardest hit in California; and

WHEREAS, The travel industry cannot recover without the full return of leisure and business travel, as well as meetings and events, by both domestic and international visitors; and

WHEREAS, The rebound of travel will drive the rebuilding of California’s economy and workforce; and

WHEREAS, The California Legislature in 2016 declared every May as California Tourism Month to celebrate the positive economic impact of the tourism in California; and

WHEREAS, Californians can help put their fellow Californians back to work and support the recovery of local businesses by traveling in California; now, therefore, be it

Resolved by the Senate of the State of California, the Assembly thereof concurring, That the Legislature proclaims May 2021 as California Tourism Month, and urges the citizens of this great state to support tourism and local businesses by traveling in state as an act of civic pride; and be it further

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