Bill Text: CA SJR1 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Enrolled

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Bill Title: Postsecondary education: the Morrill Act.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 17-4)

Status: (Passed) 2011-07-14 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Res. Chapter 56, Statutes of 2011. [SJR1 Detail]

Download: California-2011-SJR1-Enrolled.html

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BILL NUMBER: SJR 1	ENROLLED
	BILL TEXT

	ADOPTED IN SENATE  JULY 11, 2011
	ADOPTED IN ASSEMBLY  JULY 7, 2011
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JUNE 29, 2011

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Liu
   (Coauthors: Senators Hernandez, Kehoe, Lowenthal, Padilla, Pavley,
Runner, and Wolk)
   (Coauthors: Assembly Members Block, Blumenfield, Bonilla,
Buchanan, Eng, Fletcher, Galgiani, Hueso, Huffman, Jeffries, Miller,
Portantino, and V. Manuel Pérez)

                        MARCH 1, 2011

   Relative to the federal Morrill Act.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SJR 1, Liu. Postsecondary education: the Morrill Act.
   This measure would memorialize the President and the Congress of
the United States to renew the commitment to accessible higher
education and the support of research in the interest of the nation.




   WHEREAS, In 1862, the United States was engaged in a Civil War
that divided the nation and depleted its treasury; and
   WHEREAS, The Congress of the United States sought to energize the
vital intellectual resources of the nation by enacting legislation to
make higher education accessible to the public, and thereby apply
that intellectual capacity to stimulate the national economy that, at
the time, was based in agriculture and mechanical arts; and
   WHEREAS, President Abraham Lincoln supported, encouraged, and
signed this legislation because it contained ideals that united the
North and the South and was able to be executed through the
allocation of land grants; and
   WHEREAS, This legislation, known as the Morrill Act (7 U.S.C. Sec.
301), manifested itself in California with the establishment of the
University of California; and
   WHEREAS, The impact of the University of California, and its
sister public postsecondary institutions, the California State
Universities and the California Community Colleges, has educated
millions of Californians and strengthened not only the state's
agricultural industry as promised by the Morrill Act, but continued
to assist the state's economy in each successive wave of innovation,
including the industrial age and the information technology age; and
   WHEREAS, The people of California have experienced a profound
benefit from the Morrill Act; now, therefore, be it
   Resolved by the Senate and the Assembly of the State of
California, jointly, That the Legislature memorializes the President
of the United States and the Congress to renew the commitment to
accessible higher education and the support of research in the
interest of the nation; and be it further
   Resolved, That the Secretary of the Senate transmit copies of this
resolution to the President and Vice President of the United States,
to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, to the Majority
Leader of the Senate, to each Senator and Representative from
California in the Congress of the United States, and to the author
for appropriate distribution.