Bill Text: CA SCR4 | 2025-2026 | Regular Session | Chaptered
Bill Title: Fiftieth anniversary of the fall of Saigon.
Sponsorship: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-2)
Status: (Passed) 2025-05-29 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Res. Chapter 74, Statutes of 2025. [SCR4 Detail]
Download: California-2025-SCR4-Chaptered.html
Senate Concurrent Resolution
No. 4
CHAPTER 74
Relative to the fall of Saigon.
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Filed with
Secretary of State
May 29, 2025.
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LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
SCR 4, Umberg.
Fiftieth anniversary of the fall of Saigon.
This measure would commemorate the 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon.
Digest Key
Fiscal Committee: NOBill Text
WHEREAS, The fall of Saigon on April 30, 1975, and the culmination of the Vietnam War, led to the United States-sponsored evacuation of approximately 125,000 Vietnamese refugees in a first wave and hundreds of thousands more during the two-decade long Indochinese refugee crisis, creating what would become the United States’ sixth largest foreign-born group; and
WHEREAS, Vietnamese immigrants and their United States-born children comprise one of the largest diaspora populations in the United States, at more than 1,800,000 individuals, and a large proportion of the first generation arrived in the aftermath of the Vietnam War; and
WHEREAS, California is home to 35 percent of the Vietnamese American population, which is the largest share in the country; and
WHEREAS, California has one of the highest populations of Vietnam veterans in the country, and 5,822 service members from California died or went missing in the conflict; now, therefore, be it
Resolved by the Senate of the State of California, the Assembly thereof concurring, That the Legislature hereby commemorates the 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon on April 30, 2025; and be it further
Resolved, That the Secretary of the Senate transmit copies of this resolution to the author for appropriate distribution.
