Bill Text: CA ACR46 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Venice Japanese American Memorial Marker.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2011-07-11 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Res. Chapter 50, Statutes of 2011. [ACR46 Detail]

Download: California-2011-ACR46-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: ACR 46	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Butler
   (Principal coauthor: Senator Lieu)

                        APRIL 6, 2011

   Relative to the Venice Japanese American Memorial Marker.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   ACR 46, as introduced, Butler. Venice Japanese American Memorial
Marker.
   This measure would request the Department of Transportation to
issue an encroachment permit to the Venice Japanese American Memorial
Marker Committee to enable the placement of a suitable memorial
monument on State Highway Route 1 in the City of Los Angeles at the
northwest corner of Venice and Lincoln Boulevards to commemorate the
internment of Americans of Japanese descent during World War II.
   Fiscal committee: yes.



   WHEREAS, Presidential Executive Order 9066 empowered the United
States military to declare areas of Washington, Oregon, and
California militarily sensitive, and forced the relocation of 120,000
Americans of Japanese ancestry after Japan attacked the United
States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on December 7, 1941,
plunging the United States into war with Japan; and
   WHEREAS, In April 1942, more than a thousand American men, women,
and children of Japanese ancestry living in Venice, Santa Monica, and
Malibu reported to a location at Venice and Lincoln Boulevards in
the City of Los Angeles with only what they could carry; and
   WHEREAS, The Western Defense Command and Fourth Army issued
Civilian Exclusion Order No. 7 which gave these persons only days to
dispose of their property and possessions; and
   WHEREAS, Buses transported these persons directly to the Manzanar
War Relocation Authority internment camp in Inyo County where many
internees lived up to three years, for the duration of World War II;
and
   WHEREAS, The forced removal and imprisonment of these citizens of
the United States without any regard to due process or the writ of
habeas corpus violated their rights under the United States
Constitution; and
   WHEREAS, It is appropriate to commemorate this historical event by
the placing of a memorial monument on State Highway Route 1 in the
City of Los Angeles at the northwest corner of Venice and Lincoln
Boulevards; now, therefore, be it
   Resolved by the Assembly of the State of California, the Senate
thereof concurring, That the Department of Transportation is hereby
requested to issue an encroachment permit to the Venice Japanese
American Memorial Marker Committee to enable the placement of a
suitable memorial monument on State Highway Route 1 in the City of
Los Angeles at the northwest corner of Venice and Lincoln Boulevards;
and be it further
   Resolved, That placement of the memorial marker shall be
consistent with standards of the Department of Transportation and
funding of the memorial shall be from nonstate funds; and be it
further
   Resolved, That the Chief Clerk of the Assembly transmit copies of
this resolution to the Director of Transportation and to the author
for appropriate distribution.