Bill Text: CA ACR50 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Chaptered

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Bill Title: Equal Pay Day

Sponsorship: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 52-6)

Status: (Passed) 2015-08-11 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Res. Chapter 133, Statutes of 2015. [ACR50 Detail]

Download: California-2015-ACR50-Chaptered.html

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BILL NUMBER: ACR 50	CHAPTERED
	BILL TEXT

	RESOLUTION CHAPTER  133
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  AUGUST 11, 2015
	ADOPTED IN SENATE  JULY 16, 2015
	ADOPTED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 13, 2015
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 13, 2015

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Gonzalez
   (Coauthors: Assembly Members Achadjian, Alejo, Atkins, Bloom,
Bonilla, Bonta, Brown, Burke, Calderon, Campos, Chau, Ch�vez, Chiu,
Chu, Cooley, Cooper, Dababneh, Daly, Dodd, Eggman, Frazier, Cristina
Garcia, Eduardo Garcia, Gatto, Gipson, Gomez, Gordon, Gray, Roger
Hern�ndez, Holden, Irwin, Jones-Sawyer, Lackey, Levine, Linder,
Lopez, Low, Maienschein, McCarty, Medina, Mullin, Nazarian, O'
Donnell, Perea, Quirk, Rendon, Rodriguez, Salas, Santiago, Mark
Stone, Thurmond, Ting, Waldron, Weber, Wilk, Williams, and Wood)

                        MARCH 19, 2015

   Relative to Equal Pay Day.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   ACR 50, Gonzalez. Equal Pay Day
   This measure would proclaim April 14, 2015, as Equal Pay Day in
recognition of the need to eliminate the gender gap in earnings by
women and to promote policies to ensure equal pay for all.



   WHEREAS, More than 50 years after the passage of the Equal Pay
Act, women, especially minority women, continue to suffer the
consequences of unequal pay; and
   WHEREAS, According to a report by the National Partnership for
Women & Families, women in California earned a median of $0.84 for
each dollar earned by men as of October 2014; and
   WHEREAS, As reported by the United States Census Bureau, women
working full time, year round in 2013, typically earned 78 percent of
what men earned, indicating little change or progress in pay equity;
and
   WHEREAS, According to "Graduating to a Pay Gap," a 2012 research
report by the American Association of University Women (AAUW), the
gender pay gap is evident one year after college graduation, even
after controlling for factors known to affect earnings, such as
occupation, hours worked, and college major; and
   WHEREAS, In 2011, the Georgetown University Center on Education
and the Workforce found that college-educated women working full time
earn $650,000 less than their male peers do over the course of a
lifetime; and
   WHEREAS, In 2009, the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act was signed into
law, which gives back to employees their day in court to challenge a
pay gap, and now we must pass the Paycheck Fairness Act, which would
amend the Equal Pay Act by closing loopholes and improving the law's
effectiveness; and
   WHEREAS, Nearly four in 10 mothers are primary breadwinners in
their households and nearly two-thirds are primary or significant
earners, making pay equity critical to families' economic security;
and
   WHEREAS, A lifetime of lower pay means women have less income to
save for retirement and less income counted in a social security or
pension benefit formula; and
   WHEREAS, Fair pay equity policies can be implemented simply and
without undue costs or hardship in both the public and private
sectors; and
   WHEREAS, Fair pay strengthens the security of families today and
eases future retirement costs while enhancing the American economy;
and
   WHEREAS, Tuesday, April 14, symbolizes the time in 2015 when the
wages paid to American women catch up to the wages paid to men from
the previous year; now, therefore, be it
   Resolved by the Assembly of the State of California, the Senate
thereof concurring, That the Legislature proclaims Tuesday, April 14,
2015, as Equal Pay Day in recognition of the need to eliminate the
gender gap in earnings by women and to promote policies to ensure
equal pay for all; and be it further
   Resolved, That the Chief Clerk of the Assembly transmit copies of
this resolution to the author for appropriate distribution.