Bill Text: CA ACR100 | 2021-2022 | Regular Session | Chaptered
Bill Title: Child Support Awareness Month.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 52-15-1)
Status: (Passed) 2022-02-22 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Res. Chapter 6, Statutes of 2022. [ACR100 Detail]
Download: California-2021-ACR100-Chaptered.html
Assembly Concurrent Resolution
No. 100
CHAPTER 6
Relative to Child Support Awareness Month.
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Filed with
Secretary of State
February 22, 2022.
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LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
ACR 100, Carrillo.
Child Support Awareness Month.
This measure would recognize August 2021 as Child Support Awareness Month.
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Fiscal Committee: NOBill Text
WHEREAS, Children become healthy, productive, and well-adjusted adults through the support and nurturing of their families; and
WHEREAS, California’s children have a right to receive emotional and financial support from both of their parents; and
WHEREAS, California is strongly committed to promoting the health and well-being of all of California’s children by establishing paternity, ensuring parents pay child support on a regular and timely basis, and encouraging all parents to have a loving and supportive relationship with their children; and
WHEREAS, California’s child support program provides an important opportunity for parents to be a positive force in the lives of their children. In 2020, California had a caseload of 1,100,000 child support cases and served over 2,000,000 children; and
WHEREAS, California is a national leader in the amount of child support collected from parents, distributing more than $2,500,000,000 in child support payments in 2020; and
WHEREAS, Child Support Awareness Month celebrates California’s nationally recognized record of providing services for parents and their children; and
WHEREAS, Increasing public awareness of the importance of this issue through education and outreach will reinforce the need for all parents to take responsibility for the financial, emotional, and physical support of their children; and
WHEREAS, Awareness of the needs of children and the responsibilities of parents to provide for the support of their children benefits all Californians; and
WHEREAS, As Californians, we must rededicate ourselves to the task of putting our youngest and most vulnerable citizens first; now, therefore, be it
Resolved by the Assembly of the State of California, the Senate thereof concurring, That the Legislature hereby proclaims the month of August 2021 to be Child Support Awareness Month, and encourages all Californians to participate in the support and well-being of children; and be it further
Resolved, That the Chief Clerk of the Assembly transmit copies of this resolution to the author for appropriate distribution.
