Bill Text: CA SCR49 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Federal economic recovery plan funds.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2009-09-11 - In Assembly. Held at Desk. [SCR49 Detail]
Download: California-2009-SCR49-Introduced.html
BILL NUMBER: SCR 49 INTRODUCED
BILL TEXT
INTRODUCED BY Senator DeSaulnier
JUNE 11, 2009
Relative to spending federal economic recovery plan funds.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
SCR 49, as introduced, DeSaulnier. Federal economic recovery plan
funds.
This measure would state the Legislature's support for maximizing
the creation of American jobs and the restoration of economic growth
and opportunity by spending economic recovery funds on goods and
services that create American jobs. The measure would also state the
Legislature's encouragement of all state entities to purchase goods
and services produced in the United States with any economic recovery
funds provided to the state.
Fiscal committee: no.
WHEREAS, The economic downturn is having a critical impact on
Americans who are struggling to maintain or find jobs in an
increasingly difficult environment; and
WHEREAS, Those Americans are taxpayers who provide the revenue
needed to operate essential government services; and
WHEREAS, Congress approved, and President Obama signed, a
taxpayer-sponsored economic recovery plan that will provide billions
of dollars to help restore the economy and immediately provide jobs
to millions of unemployed Americans, including Californians, through
infrastructure rebuilding, green energy projects, and other projects
that will require manufactured goods and services; and
WHEREAS, Taxpayer dollars should be spent to maximize the creation
of jobs in America and to restore the economic vitality of our
national, state, and local communities; and
WHEREAS, Goods and services produced within the United States that
are purchased with economic recovery funds immediately strengthen
struggling American families by providing jobs and will ultimately
help stabilize our economy; and
WHEREAS, The state should spend economic recovery funds to buy
goods and services produced within the United States, thus employing
American workers who pay the taxes that fund the economic recovery
plan; now, therefore, be it
Resolved by the Senate of the State of California, the Assembly
thereof concurring, That the Legislature of the State of California
supports maximizing the creation of American jobs and the restoration
of economic growth and opportunity by spending economic recovery
funds on goods and services that create American jobs; and be it
further
Resolved, That the Legislature encourages all state entities to
purchase goods and services produced in the United States with any
economic recovery funds provided to the state; and be it further
Resolved, That the Secretary of the Senate transmit a copy of this
resolution to the author for distribution.
