BILL NUMBER: SCR 42	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senators Huff and Gaines
   (Principal coauthor: Assembly Member Grove)
   (Coauthors: Senators Fuller, La Malfa, Vargas, and Wright)
   (Coauthors: Assembly Members Beall, Garrick, Jones, Morrell,
Olsen, and Williams)

                        APRIL 28, 2011

   Relative to the 50th Anniversary of the California Prayer
Breakfast.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SCR 42, as introduced, Huff. California Prayer Breakfast.
   This measure would recognize that the California Prayer Breakfast
is commemorating and celebrating its 50th year of existence at the
State Capitol in 2011 with the California Prayer Breakfast being held
on May 19, 2011, at the Sheraton Grand Sacramento Hotel.
   Fiscal committee: no.



   WHEREAS, The California Prayer Breakfast is inspired by, and
patterned after, the National Prayer Breakfast, which is held each
year in Washington, D.C., and was created as a result of President
Eisenhower's call from the White House one evening to his friend,
Senator Frank Carlson of Kansas, in which he is believed to have
said: "Frank, this is the loneliest house that I've ever been in.
Would you come over and pray with me?"; and
   WHEREAS, The prayer meetings continued, and soon, each week at the
Nation's Capitol, a group of legislators began to pray for the
President and the country, asking for God's blessings and the wisdom
and strength to help this great nation; and
   WHEREAS, Like the National Prayer Breakfast, the California Prayer
Breakfast is sponsored and planned by a group of legislators,
without regard to party affiliation, who meet weekly at 7:30 a.m. in
an in-depth bible study in the Senate Rules Committee Room at the
State Capitol; and
   WHEREAS, For 50 years, the California Legislators' Fellowship
Group has been meeting weekly for a time of fellowship in the
reconciling spirit of prayer; and
   WHEREAS, The California Legislators' Fellowship Group is
bipartisan, nondenominational, includes legislators of diverse
spiritual backgrounds and experience, and welcomes all legislators
who have a common interest in developing and nurturing their
spiritual lives; and
   WHEREAS, The California Prayer Breakfast has sought to encourage
men and women throughout the State of California to recognize their
spiritual privileges and responsibilities; and
   WHEREAS, With the desire to deepen the spiritual life and moral
fiber of the people of the state and become a spiritual leadership,
as well as to be thankful for God's blessings and to seek God's
spiritual wisdom and guidance; now, therefore, be it
   Resolved by the Senate of the State of California, the Assembly
thereof concurring, That the Legislature takes great pleasure in
recognizing that the California Prayer Breakfast is commemorating and
celebrating its 50th year of existence at the State Capitol in 2011
with the California Prayer Breakfast being held on May 19, 2011, at
the Sheraton Grand Sacramento Hotel; and be it further
   Resolved, That the Secretary of the Senate transmit copies of this
resolution to the author for appropriate distribution.