Bill Text: CA SCR30 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Enrolled

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Bill Title: Equal Pay Day.

Sponsorship: Broadly Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Passed) 2013-07-03 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Res. Chapter 62, Statutes of 2013. [SCR30 Detail]

Download: California-2013-SCR30-Enrolled.html

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BILL NUMBER: SCR 30	ENROLLED
	BILL TEXT

	ADOPTED IN SENATE  JULY 1, 2013
	ADOPTED IN ASSEMBLY  JUNE 20, 2013
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JUNE 20, 2013
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JUNE 10, 2013

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Jackson
   (Principal coauthor: Assembly Member Lowenthal)
   (Coauthors: Senators Corbett, Evans, Galgiani, Hancock, Liu,
Monning, Pavley, and Wolk)
   (Coauthors: Assembly Members Alejo, Ammiano, Chesbro, Frazier,
Hall, Ting, Achadjian, Atkins, Bigelow, Bloom, Blumenfield,
Bocanegra, Bonilla, Bonta, Bradford, Brown, Buchanan, Ian Calderon,
Campos, Chau, Ch�vez, Cooley, Daly, Dickinson, Eggman, Fong, Fox,
Garcia, Gatto, Gomez, Gonzalez, Gordon, Gorell, Gray, Roger
Hern�ndez, Holden, Jones-Sawyer, Levine, Maienschein, Medina,
Mitchell, Mullin, Muratsuchi, Nazarian, Olsen, Pan, Perea, John A.
P�rez, V. Manuel P�rez, Quirk, Quirk-Silva, Rendon, Salas, Skinner,
Stone, Weber, Wieckowski, Williams, and Yamada)

                        APRIL 1, 2013

   Relative to Equal Pay Day.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SCR 30, Jackson. Equal Pay Day.
   This measure would declare April 9, 2013, as Equal Pay Day.



   WHEREAS, Fifty years after the passage of the Equal Pay Act,
women, especially women of color, continue to suffer the consequences
of unequal pay; and
   WHEREAS, According to the United States Census Bureau, full-time
women working year round in 2011 earned on average 77 percent of the
earnings of their male counterparts, with African American women
earning only 68 percent and Latino women earning only 59 percent of
wages paid to men, indicating little change or progress in pay
equity; and
   WHEREAS, While several measures of educational achievement show
that on average women are faring as well as their male counterparts
today, often these gains do not translate into comparable economic
success beyond college; and
   WHEREAS, A study in 2012 by the American Association of University
Women found that one year after college graduation, women were paid
on average only 82 percent of what their male counterparts made; 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, but Congress has yet to pass the Paycheck Fairness Act,
which would amend the Equal Pay Act by closing loopholes and
improving the law's effectiveness; and
   WHEREAS, According to one estimate, college-educated women working
full time earn more than one-half million dollars less than their
male peers do over the course of a lifetime; and
   WHEREAS, Recent budget cuts to California's community colleges
have made it harder for women to obtain a degree or enroll in courses
resulting in a dramatic decrease of women's enrollment in community
colleges since 2007; and
   WHEREAS, Nearly 4 in 10 mothers are primary breadwinners in their
households, and nearly two-thirds are 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, The American Association of University Women in a 2011
report found that according to the United States Census Bureau, women
marketing and sales managers earned $59,491 in 2009, compared with
$89,933 for their male peers; women physicians and surgeons earned
$120,971, compared with $190,726 for their male peers; and women
securities, commodities, and financial services sales agents earned
$52,524, compared to $85,760 for their male peers; 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, Tuesday, April 9, 2013, symbolizes the time 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 Senate of the State of California, the Assembly
thereof concurring, That the Legislature declares April 9, 2013, as
Equal Pay Day; and be it further
   Resolved, That the citizens of California are urged to recognize
the full value of women's skills and significant contributions to the
labor force, and that businesses are encouraged to conduct an
internal pay evaluation to ensure women are being paid fairly; and be
it further
   Resolved, That the Secretary of the Senate transmit copies of this
resolution to the author for appropriate distribution.