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                                 THIRD READING


          Bill No:  SCR 41
          Author:   Yee (D)
          Amended:  As introduced
          Vote:     21

           
          WITHOUT REFERENCE TO COMMITTEE OR FILE


           SUBJECT  :    California Microenterprise Development Month

           SOURCE  :     California Association for Microenterprise  
          Opportunity


           DIGEST  :    This resolution designates July 2009, and July  
          of every year thereafter as Microenterprise Development  
          Month.

           ANALYSIS  :    

          This resolution states the following:

          1. Microenterprises are small business with fewer than five  
             employees, and comprise over 19 percent of California's  
             employment, providing jobs for 3,305,272 people  
             Microenterprises produce jobs through all economic  
             cycles, accounting for 77 percent of all new employment  
             growth in the state from 2000 to 2003, inclusive, while  
             larger employers lost 444,000 jobs.

          2. Women entrepreneurs make up 78 percent of those  
             benefiting from microenterprise development.
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          3. Microenterprise development is an essential component of  
             every community hoping to inspire and promote  
             entrepreneurship.  California communities can stimulate  
             the growth and successful entrepreneurship by fostering  
             microenterprise development and by working together to  
             promote outreach, advocacy, and education encouraging  
             the growth of microenterprise and microentrepreneurship  
             opportunities for California.

          This resolution designates July 2009, and July of every  
          year thereafter as Microenterprise Development Month.

           FISCAL EFFECT  :    Fiscal Com.:  No

           SUPPORT  :   (Verified  5/8/09)

          California Association for Microenterprise Opportunity  
          (source)
          Women's Initiative For Self Employment


          JJA:do  5/11/09   Senate Floor Analyses 

                         SUPPORT/OPPOSITION:  SEE ABOVE

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