BILL ANALYSIS Ó
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ASSEMBLY THIRD READING
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As Amended May 2, 2013
Majority vote
RULES 10-0
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|Ayes:|Skinner, Wilk, Bigelow, |
| |Brown, Chau, Hagman, |
| |Nazarian, |
| |V. Manuel Pérez, Quirk, |
| |Weber |
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SUMMARY : Proclaims 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
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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.
FISCAL EFFECT : None
Analysis Prepared by : Mukhtar Ali / RLS. / (916) 319-2800
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