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          Date of Hearing:   July 1, 2013

                             ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON RULES
                                Nancy Skinner, Chair
                    ACR 58 (Gaines) - As Introduced:  May 2, 2013
           
          SUBJECT  :   California Business Women's Day.

           SUMMARY  :   Designates September 22, 2013, and September 22,  
          2014, as "California Business Women's Day" and, encourages  
          Californians to celebrate the occasion with appropriate  
          activities.  Specifically,  this resolution  makes the following  
          legislative findings:

          1)There are approximately 1 million women-owned businesses in  
            California constituting 48.6 percent of all privately held  
            business in California; and, women-owned businesses in  
            California employ approximately 2.9 million people and  
            generate approximately $406 billion in revenue.

          2)Minority women-owned businesses comprise 35 percent of all  
            women-owned businesses in California; and, California ranks  
            first in the nation with the greatest number of Hispanic,  
            Asian, and Pacific Islander women-owned businesses, and fourth  
            for the greatest number of African American women-owned  
            businesses.

          3)September 22 marks the founding date in 1949 of the American  
            Business Women's Association (ABWA); and, ABWA's mission is  
            "to bring together businesswomen of diverse occupations and to  
            provide opportunities for them to help themselves and others  
            grow personally and professionally through leadership,  
            education, networking support and national recognition".

           FISCAL EFFECT  :   None

           REGISTERED SUPPORT / OPPOSITION  :   

           Support 
           
          None on file

           Opposition 
           
          None on file








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          Analysis Prepared by  :    Nicole Willis / RLS. / (916) 319-2800