Bill Text: CA ACR152 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Chaptered

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Bill Title: California Holocaust Memorial Day.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 59-25-1)

Status: (Passed) 2016-06-08 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Res. Chapter 67, Statutes of 2016. [ACR152 Detail]

Download: California-2015-ACR152-Chaptered.html

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BILL NUMBER: ACR 152	CHAPTERED
	BILL TEXT

	RESOLUTION CHAPTER  67
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  JUNE 8, 2016
	ADOPTED IN SENATE  JUNE 2, 2016
	ADOPTED IN ASSEMBLY  MAY 16, 2016
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MAY 16, 2016

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Members Bloom, Levine, Linder, Medina,
Nazarian, and Thurmond
   (Principal coauthors: Senators Allen, Block, Glazer, Hertzberg,
Jackson, Leno, Stone, and Wolk)
   (Coauthors: Assembly Members Achadjian, Alejo, Arambula, Atkins,
Baker, Bigelow, Bonilla, Bonta, Brough, Brown, Burke, Calderon,
Campos, Chang, Chau, Chávez, Chiu, Chu, Cooley, Cooper, Dahle, Daly,
Dodd, Eggman, Frazier, Beth Gaines, Gallagher, Cristina Garcia,
Eduardo Garcia, Gatto, Gipson, Gomez, Gonzalez, Gordon, Gray, Grove,
Hadley, Harper, Roger Hernández, Holden, Irwin, Jones, Jones-Sawyer,
Kim, Lackey, Lopez, Low, Maienschein, Mathis, Mayes, McCarty,
Melendez, Mullin, Obernolte, O'Donnell, Olsen, Patterson, Quirk,
Rendon, Ridley-Thomas, Rodriguez, Salas, Santiago, Steinorth, Mark
Stone, Ting, Wagner, Waldron, Weber, Williams, and Wood)

                        MARCH 8, 2016

   Relative to California Holocaust Memorial Day.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   ACR 152, Bloom. California Holocaust Memorial Day.
   This measure would proclaim May 16, 2016, as California Holocaust
Memorial Day and would urge all Californians to observe this day of
remembrance for the victims of the Holocaust in an appropriate
manner.



   WHEREAS, The Holocaust was a tragedy of proportions the world had
never before witnessed; and
   WHEREAS, More than 70 years have passed since the tragic events we
now refer to as the Holocaust transpired, in which the dictatorship
of Nazi Germany murdered six million Jews as part of a systematic
program of genocide known as "The Final Solution of the Jewish
Question"; and
   WHEREAS, Jews were the primary victims, but they were not alone.
Five million other people were murdered in Nazi concentration camps
as part of a carefully orchestrated, state-sponsored program of
cultural, social, and political annihilation under the Nazi tyranny;
and
   WHEREAS, We must recognize the heroism of those who provided
assistance to the victims of the Nazi regime, including the many
soldiers who liberated concentration camps and provided comfort to
those suffering; and
   WHEREAS, We must teach our children, and future generations, that
the individual and communal acts of heroism during the Holocaust
serve as a powerful example of how our nation and its citizens can,
and must, respond to acts of hatred and inhumanity; and
   WHEREAS, We must always remind ourselves of the horrible events of
the Holocaust and remain vigilant against hatred, persecution, and
tyranny lest these atrocities be repeated; and
   WHEREAS, We, the people of California, should actively rededicate
ourselves to the principles of human rights, individual freedom, and
equal protection under the laws of a just and democratic society; and

   WHEREAS, Each person in California should set aside moments of his
or her time every year to give remembrance to those who lost their
lives in the Holocaust; and
   WHEREAS, The United States Holocaust Memorial Council recognizes
the Days of Remembrance of the Victims of the Holocaust, including
the Day of Remembrance, known as Yom Hashoah; and
   WHEREAS, According to Elie Wiesel, a Holocaust survivor and
nationally recognized scholar, "a memorial unresponsive to the future
would violate the memory of the past"; now, therefore, be it
   Resolved by the Assembly of the State of California, the Senate
thereof concurring, That the Legislature proclaims May 16, 2016, as
"California Holocaust Memorial Day," and that Californians are urged
to observe this day of remembrance for victims of the Holocaust in an
appropriate manner; and be it further
   Resolved, That the Chief Clerk of the Assembly transmit sufficient
copies of this resolution to the author for appropriate
distribution.