Bill Text: CA ACR191 | 2017-2018 | Regular Session | Chaptered

California Assembly Concurrent Resolution 191 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: California Nonprofits Day.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 55-21-1)

Status: (Passed) 2018-06-26 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Res. Chapter 105, Statutes of 2018. [ACR191 Detail]

Download: California-2017-ACR191-Chaptered.html

Assembly Concurrent Resolution No. 191

CHAPTER 105

Relative to California Nonprofits Day.

[ Filed with Secretary of State June 26, 2018. ]

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

ACR 191, Limón. California Nonprofits Day.

This measure would declare June 6, 2018, as California Nonprofits Day in recognition of the importance of nonprofit organizations to the economy and well-being of this state.

Fiscal Committee: NO

WHEREAS, Nonprofit organizations are a large and vital part of California’s economy, with nonprofit economic activity contributing 15 percent, or one-sixth, of California’s gross state product; and

WHEREAS, Nonprofit organizations rank as the fourth largest industry in California by employment, with nearly one million people employed by nonprofits, accounting for 1 in every 16 California jobs; and

WHEREAS, Each year nonprofit organizations bring in at least $40 billion in revenue to California from out-of-state sources; and

WHEREAS, California nonprofit organizations employ greater percentages of women and people of color than the overall civilian workforce; and

WHEREAS, California nonprofit organizations are trusted institutions that exist to provide services to the needy and vulnerable, improve quality of life, express community values, and promote social change; and

WHEREAS, The nonprofit organization community in California is a strong economic power that uses that power for the common good; and

WHEREAS, California’s nonprofit organizations are national and international groundbreakers and leaders in the environment, in science, in safety net innovations, in civil rights, in the arts and humanities, and in the pursuit of democratic ideals; and

WHEREAS, The Legislature heralded the first California Nonprofits Day wherein 72 nonprofit organizations were honored by their Assembly Members and Senators on June 22, 2016; and

WHEREAS, The Legislature celebrated the second California Nonprofits Day on June 28, 2017, with 96 nonprofit organizations honored by their legislators; now, therefore, be it

Resolved by the Assembly of the State of California, the Senate thereof concurring, That the Legislature, in recognition of the importance of nonprofit organizations to the economy and well-being of this state, declares June 6, 2018, as California Nonprofits Day; and be it further

Resolved, That the Chief Clerk of the Assembly transmit copies of this resolution to the author for appropriate distribution.