Bill Text: CA SJR11 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Guantanamo Bay: detention facility.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 43-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-07-07 - Failed passage in committee. (Ayes 2. Noes 4. Page 1641.) [SJR11 Detail]
Download: California-2009-SJR11-Introduced.html
BILL NUMBER: SJR 11 INTRODUCED
BILL TEXT
INTRODUCED BY Senator Runner
(Coauthors: Senators Aanestad, Ashburn, Benoit, Cogdill, Cox,
Denham, Dutton, Hollingsworth, Huff, Maldonado, Strickland, Walters,
and Wyland)
(Coauthors: Assembly Members Adams, Anderson, Bill Berryhill, Tom
Berryhill, Blakeslee, Conway, Cook, DeVore, Duvall, Emmerson,
Fletcher, Fuller, Gaines, Galgiani, Garrick, Gilmore, Hagman, Harkey,
Jeffries, Knight, Logue, Miller, Nestande, Niello, Nielsen, Silva,
Smyth, Audra Strickland, Tran, and Villines)
JUNE 1, 2009
Relative to Guantanamo Bay.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
SJR 11, as introduced, Runner. Guantanamo Bay: detention facility.
This bill would urge the President of the United States and the
Congress to employ necessary measures to ensure that no terrorist or
suspected terrorist detained at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba is permitted to
enter California in custody or otherwise.
Fiscal committee: no.
WHEREAS, The imminent closure of the United States detention
facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba raises the inescapable conclusion
that the terrorists or suspected terrorists who remain in the
facility will be transferred to alternative prisons or released here
or abroad; and
WHEREAS, This group includes extraordinarily dangerous men like
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, mastermind of the September 11 attacks on the
United States, and Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, who orchestrated the
2000 attack that killed 17 United States sailors aboard the U.S.S.
Cole; and
WHEREAS, Terrorists like Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who has bragged
about decapitating American journalist Daniel Pearl and openly
expresses his desire to kill more Americans, are now securely
confined in the United States detention facility at Guantanamo Bay,
Cuba; and
WHEREAS, The President has not articulated a clear plan for the
disposition of these terrorists but confirms that they will all be
moved; and
WHEREAS, The people of California, who were identified as
potential targets for the September 11 attacks, are profoundly
concerned that a lack of vigilance will result in the release of
terrorists who may once again threaten their families; and
WHEREAS, The safety of our citizens is our paramount concern; now,
therefore, be it
Resolved by the Senate and the Assembly of the State of
California, jointly, That the California State Legislature
respectfully urges the President of the United States and the
Congress of the United States to employ necessary measures to ensure
that no terrorist or suspected terrorist detained at Guantanamo Bay,
Cuba is permitted to enter California in custody or otherwise; 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,
the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the Majority Leader of
the Senate, and each Senator and Representative from California in
the Congress of the United States.
