BILL NUMBER: ACR 11	CHAPTERED
	BILL TEXT

	RESOLUTION CHAPTER  98
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  AUGUST 30, 2005
	ADOPTED IN SENATE  AUGUST 25, 2005
	ADOPTED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 18, 2005
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 18, 2005
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 30, 2005

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Dymally
   (Coauthors: Assembly Members Aghazarian, Arambula, Baca, Bass,
Benoit, Berg, Bermudez, Calderon, Canciamilla, Chan, Chu, Cogdill,
Cohn, Coto, Daucher, Frommer, Garcia, Goldberg, Hancock, Harman,
Jerome Horton, Shirley Horton, Jones, Karnette, Keene, Klehs, Koretz,
Laird, Leno, Leslie, Levine, Lieber, Liu, Matthews, Maze, Montanez,
Mountjoy, Mullin, Nakanishi, Nation, Nava, Negrete McLeod, Niello,
Nunez, Parra, Pavley, Plescia, Richman, Ridley-Thomas, Ruskin,
Saldana, Salinas, Spitzer, Strickland, Torrico, Tran, Umberg, Vargas,
Villines, Wolk, Wyland, and Yee)

                        JANUARY 31, 2005

   Relative to the Public Employees' Retirement System.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   ACR 11, Dymally  Public Employees' Retirement System: Sudan.
   This measure would encourage the Public Employees' Retirement
System and the California State Teachers' Retirement System, whenever
feasible and consistent with their fiduciary responsibilities, to
encourage companies in which employee retirement funds are invested
and that are doing business in Sudan, as identified by the Department
of Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control, to act responsibly
and not take actions that promote or otherwise enable human rights
violations in the Sudan.




   WHEREAS, The government of Sudan and the southern opposition
signed a peace agreement on Sunday, January 9, 2005, in Kenya,
Africa; and
   WHEREAS, The peace agreement is expected to put a stop to Sudan's
cruel treatment of southerners; and
   WHEREAS, The rebel south will not have to redeploy an army
consisting of children; and
   WHEREAS, Secretary of State Colin Powell, on behalf of the United
States, with Ambassador John C. Danforth, U.S.  Representative to the
United Nations, assisted in negotiating the peace agreement; and
   WHEREAS, Stopping the conflict in western Darfur is not part of
the peace agreement, however; and
   WHEREAS, The Sudan government is suspected of a policy of genocide
in western Darfur; and
   WHEREAS, There is a need for the United States and the United
Nations to continue to put pressure on the Sudanese government to
stop supplying arms to the Janjaweed; and
   WHEREAS, The State of California is deeply concerned over the poor
human rights situation in Sudan; and
   WHEREAS, The State of California calls for stepped-up
international efforts to end the crisis in Sudan's Darfur region, and
concurs with United States policy, which has officially declared
that genocide is ongoing in the Darfur region of Sudan; and
   WHEREAS, Despite significant pressure from the United States
government, the government of Sudan has not taken all the necessary
actions to disassociate itself fully from the fighting in Darfur; and

   WHEREAS, The 2002 Machakos Protocol, signed by both sides in the
civil war in Sudan, has recognized that "Sudan is a multi-cultural,
multi-racial, multi-ethnic, multi-religious, and multi-lingual
country," and that there "shall be freedom of belief, worship and
conscience for followers of all religions or beliefs or customs and
no one shall be discriminated against on such grounds" once a peace
agreement is signed; now, therefore, be it
   Resolved by the Assembly of the State of California, the Senate
thereof concurring, That the Legislature encourages the Public
Employees' Retirement System and the California State Teachers'
Retirement System, whenever feasible and consistent with their
fiduciary responsibilities, to encourage companies in which employee
retirement funds are invested and that are doing business in Sudan,
as identified by the Department of Treasury's Office of Foreign
Assets Control, to act responsibly and not take actions that promote
or otherwise enable human rights violations in the Sudan; and be it
further
   Resolved, That the Chief Clerk of the Assembly transmit copies of
this resolution to the author for appropriate distribution.