BILL ANALYSIS Ó ACR 43 Page 1 Date of Hearing: May 6, 2013 ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON RULES Nancy Skinner, Chair ACR 43 (Cooley) - As Amended: May 2, 2013 SUBJECT : State Capitol History Month. SUMMARY : This measure would proclaim May 2013 as State Capitol History Month, in order to raise awareness of the importance of the State Capitol. Specifically, this resolution makes the following legislative findings: 1)The State Capitol evokes a spirit of pride and confidence in California. The State Capitol is visited by over one million tourists each year, approximately 700,000 of which are children. 2)After fires that destroyed the first State Capitol building, political issues involved with the building of the second, and numerous changes to the location of the Capitol city, the State Capitol was built in Sacramento. 3)Sacramento was a major distribution center, which is why it was the starting point of the First Transcontinental Railroad. With the gold miners came many businesses and entrepreneurs that gave Sacramento an economic base and more to offer than other cities. 4)The California Gold Rush began with the discovery of significant gold deposits near Sacramento in 1848, which greatly increased Sacramento's population. People from many different cultures came to California in search of fortune and many of those people went through Sacramento. 5)The State Capitol was declared unsafe in 1972, but the Assembly and the Senate refused to move to a new building because the State Capitol had been their home for over 100 years. The restoration project of the State Capitol was the most extensive effort of its kind in the Western Hemisphere. The original State Capitol cornerstone was laid on May 15, 1861, and during the restoration the cornerstone was relaid on May 18, 1978. ACR 43 Page 2 FISCAL EFFECT : Unknown REGISTERED SUPPORT / OPPOSITION : Support None on file. Opposition None on file. Analysis Prepared by : Mukhtar Ali / RLS. / (916) 319-2805