BILL NUMBER: HR 5	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  FEBRUARY 4, 2013

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Members Yamada and Mitchell
    (   Coauthors:   Assembly Members 
 Achadjian,   Alejo,   Allen,  
Ammiano,   Atkins,   Bigelow,   Bloom,
  Blumenfield,   Bocanegra,   Bonilla,
  Bonta,   Bradford,   Brown,  
Ian Calderon,   Campos,   Chau,   Chávez,
  Chesbro,   Conway,   Cooley,  
Dahle,   Daly,   Dickinson,   Donnelly,
  Eggman,   Fong,   Fox,  
Frazier,   Beth Gaines,   Garcia,   Gatto,
  Gomez,   Gordon,   Gorell,  
Gray,   Grove,   Hagman,   Hall, 
 Harkey,   Roger Hernández,   Holden, 
 Hueso,   Jones,   Jones-Sawyer,  
Levine,   Linder,   Logue,   Lowenthal,
  Maienschein,   Medina,   Melendez, 
 Morrell,   Mullin,   Muratsuchi,  
Nazarian,   Nestande,   Olsen,   Pan,
  Patterson,   Perea,   John A. Pérez,
  V. Manuel Pérez,   Quirk,   Quirk-Silva,
  Rendon,  Salas,   Stone,  
Ting,   Torres,   Wagner,   Waldron, 
 Weber,   Wieckowski,   Wilk,   and
Williams   ) 

                        JANUARY 17, 2013

   Relative to the Commemoration of Rosa Parks' 100th birthday.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
             HOUSE OR SENATE RESOLUTIONS DO NOT CONTAIN A DIGEST



   WHEREAS, Rosa Parks was born on February 4, 1913, in Tuskegee,
Alabama, the first child of James and Leona (Edwards) McCauley; and
   WHEREAS, Rosa Louise McCauley married Raymond Parks on December
18, 1932; and
   WHEREAS, Rosa Parks, tired after a long day's work as a
seamstress, was arrested on December 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama,
for refusing to give up her seat on a bus to a white passenger; and
   WHEREAS, Rosa Parks' arrest for refusing to comply with Montgomery'
s segregation law was the impetus for the Montgomery Bus Boycott, led
by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., which lasted 381 days and involved
more than 40,000 African American Montgomery residents; and
   WHEREAS, On November 13, 1956, the United States Supreme Court
ruled that Montgomery's segregation law was unconstitutional, and on
December 20, 1956, Montgomery officials were ordered to desegregate
buses; and
   WHEREAS, Rosa Parks is honored as the "Mother of the Modern Day
Civil Rights Movement," because her quiet act of defiance began a
movement that ended legal segregation in our country and made her an
inspiration to freedom-loving people throughout the world; and
   WHEREAS, The courage and conviction of Rosa Parks laid the
foundation for equal rights for all Americans and for the Civil
Rights Act of 1964; and
   WHEREAS, Rosa Parks was the first woman to join the Montgomery
chapter of the NAACP, and was an active volunteer for the Montgomery
Voters League; and
   WHEREAS, Rosa Parks cofounded the Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute
for Self Development in 1987 with Elaine Eason Steele to motivate
and direct youth to achieve their highest potential through the
"Pathways to Freedom" program; and
   WHEREAS, Rosa Parks was the recipient of many awards including the
Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor,
the Congressional Gold Medal, the highest honor Congress can bestow
upon a civilian, and the first International Freedom Conductor Award
from the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, among many
other awards and honors; and
   WHEREAS, Rosa Parks dedicated her life to the cause of human
rights and truly embodied the love of humanity and freedom; and
   WHEREAS, Rosa Parks passed away on October 24, 2005, and was the
first woman to lie in state in the nation's capitol; and
   WHEREAS, The people of the State of California are grateful for
the bravery of Rosa Parks and her contribution to the civil rights
movement; now, therefore, be it
   Resolved by the Assembly of the State of California, That the
Assembly of the State of California hereby honors the 100th birthday
of Rosa Parks and urges all Californians to remember this great
American woman; and be it further
   Resolved, That the Chief Clerk of the Assembly transmit copies of
this resolution to the author for appropriate distribution.