Bill Text: CA ACR101 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Chaptered
Bill Title: Buy California Small Business First Month.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 47-26)
Status: (Passed) 2010-06-07 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Res. Chapter 36, Statutes of 2010. [ACR101 Detail]
Download: California-2009-ACR101-Chaptered.html
BILL NUMBER: ACR 101 CHAPTERED
BILL TEXT
RESOLUTION CHAPTER 36
FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE JUNE 7, 2010
ADOPTED IN SENATE MAY 28, 2010
ADOPTED IN ASSEMBLY APRIL 29, 2010
AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY APRIL 29, 2010
INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Furutani
(Coauthors: Assembly Members Blakeslee, Hill, V. Manuel Perez,
Ruskin, Adams, Ammiano, Anderson, Arambula, Beall, Tom Berryhill,
Block, Blumenfield, Bradford, Brownley, Buchanan, Charles Calderon,
Carter, Chesbro, Conway, Cook, Coto, Davis, De La Torre, De Leon,
DeVore, Emmerson, Eng, Evans, Feuer, Fletcher, Fong, Fuentes, Fuller,
Gaines, Galgiani, Garrick, Gilmore, Hagman, Hall, Harkey, Hayashi,
Hernandez, Huber, Huffman, Jeffries, Knight, Lieu, Logue, Ma,
Mendoza, Miller, Monning, Nava, Nestande, Niello, Nielsen, John A.
Perez, Portantino, Salas, Saldana, Skinner, Smyth, Solorio, Audra
Strickland, Swanson, Torlakson, Torres, Tran, Villines, and Yamada)
(Coauthors: Senators Cedillo and Price)
JANUARY 5, 2010
Relative to Buy California Small Business First Month.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
ACR 101, Furutani. Buy California Small Business First Month.
This measure would proclaim May 2010 as Buy California Small
Business First Month to raise awareness that when California
consumers, businesses, colleges, universities, and governmental
agencies choose to first support California small businesses when
making purchasing decisions, a wave of positive economic impacts
occurs within the state and local economies.
WHEREAS, The California Small Business Association established the
"Buy California Small Business First" concept to educate consumers,
businesses, colleges, universities, and governmental agencies about
the positive economic impacts of choosing to first support California
small businesses when making purchasing decisions; and
WHEREAS, When consumers, businesses, colleges, universities, and
governmental agencies buy from California small businesses, a wave of
positive economic impacts occurs, from supporting the employment of
people in the immediate community, to encouraging local
entrepreneurs, to generating tax revenues from local sales and
personal incomes; and
WHEREAS, California's small businesses are integral to a sound
economic foundation of this state because small businesses provide a
majority of all private sector jobs and constantly create new
employment opportunities for Californians; and
WHEREAS, California's small businesses are critical to the current
economic health of this state because small businesses produce more
than one-half of California's gross domestic product; and
WHEREAS, California's small businesses are a key factor in the
future success of the state's economy because small businesses are
innovative forces in the marketplace and are among those most likely
to take risks to create new technologies and industries; and
WHEREAS, A 2009 study conducted at California State University,
Sacramento, concluded that state contracting with small businesses in
California resulted in more money being distributed within the state
economy than contracting with larger businesses; now, therefore, be
it
Resolved by the Assembly of the State of California, the Senate
thereof concurring, That May 2010 is proclaimed as Buy California
Small Business First Month to raise awareness that when California
consumers, businesses, colleges, universities, and governmental
agencies choose to first support California small businesses when
making purchasing decisions, a wave of positive economic impacts
occurs within the state and local economies; and be it further
Resolved, That the Chief Clerk of the Assembly transmit copies of
this resolution to the author for appropriate distribution.
