Bill Text: CA AR48 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Relative to the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 54-19)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-06-30 - Read. Amended. Adopted. (Page 5741.). [AR48 Detail]
Download: California-2013-AR48-Amended.html
BILL NUMBER: HR 48 AMENDED
BILL TEXT
AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY JUNE 30, 2014
INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Holden
( Coauthors: Assembly Members
Achadjian, Alejo, Allen,
Ammiano, Atkins, Bigelow, Bloom,
Bocanegra, Bonilla, Bonta,
Bradford, Brown, Buchanan, Ian
Calderon, Campos, Chau, Chávez,
Chesbro, Conway, Cooley,
Dababneh, Dahle, Daly, Dickinson,
Eggman, Fong, Fox,
Frazier, Beth Gaines, Garcia, Gatto,
Gomez, Gonzalez, Gordon,
Gorell, Grove, Hagman, Hall,
Harkey, Roger Hernández, Jones,
Jones-Sawyer, Levine, Linder,
Logue, Lowenthal, Maienschein,
Mansoor, Medina, Melendez, Mullin,
Muratsuchi, Nazarian, Nestande,
Pan, Perea, John A. Pérez, V.
Manuel Pérez, Quirk, Quirk-Silva,
Rendon, Ridley-Thomas, Rodriguez,
Salas, Stone, Ting, Wagner,
Waldron, Wieckowski, Wilk,
Williams, and Yamada )
JUNE 19, 2014
Relative to the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
HOUSE OR SENATE RESOLUTIONS DO NOT CONTAIN A DIGEST
WHEREAS, On August 28, 1963, more than 200,000 people participated
in the March on Washington, D.C., to demonstrate their support of
civil rights for African-American citizens, and the mass
demonstration, as well as the violent attacks on peaceful
demonstrators in Birmingham, Alabama, in the spring of 1963,
galvanized support for national legislation against segregation,
causing a cataclysmic change in the political and social order in
America; and
WHEREAS, On July 2, 1964, President Lyndon Baines Johnson signed
the Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law, legislation proposed by
President John Fitzgerald Kennedy and the most sweeping civil rights
legislation since Reconstruction; and
WHEREAS, Upon the signing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964,
President Johnson addressed the American public on July 2, 1964,
stating that the newly passed act "does not restrict the freedom of
any American, so long as he respects the rights of others. It does
not give special treatment to any citizen. ...It does say that there
are those who are equal before God shall now also be equal in the
polling booths, in the classrooms, in the factories, and in hotels,
restaurants, movie theaters, and other places that provide service to
the public. ...This Civil Rights Act is a challenge to all of us to
go to work in our communities and our States, in our homes and in our
hearts, to eliminate the last vestiges of injustice in our beloved
country"; and
WHEREAS, The Civil Rights Act of 1964 subsequently has been
amended by the Congress of the United States to extend the
protections of the law to disabled Americans, the elderly, and women
in collegiate athletics programs; and
WHEREAS, In 2014, the nation will commemorate the 50th anniversary
of the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964, which bans segregation on
the basis of race, color, religion, gender, or national origin at all
places of public accommodation and prohibits discrimination by
employers and labor unions and the use of federal funds for any
discriminatory program; and
WHEREAS, The Civil Rights Act of 1964 ended legal segregation, and
it is fitting and appropriate that the enactment of this historic
legislation be commemorated in the State of California; now,
therefore, be it
Resolved by the Assembly of the State of California, That the 50th
anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 hereby be commemorated
and the citizens of the state be encouraged to observe this important
occasion in the history of the nation; and be it further
Resolved, That the Chief Clerk of the Assembly transmit copies of
this resolution to the author for appropriate distribution.
