BILL ANALYSIS Ķ
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Date of Hearing: August 30, 2012
ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON RULES
Richard S. Gordon, Chair
ACR 77 (Bonta) - As Introduced: August 19, 2013
SUBJECT : Filipino American History Month.
SUMMARY : This measure would recognize the month of October
2013 as Filipino American History Month and the 426th
anniversary of the first presence of Filipinos in the
continental United States. Specifically, this resolution makes
the following legislative findings:
1) Filipinos and Filipino Americans have been contributing
to California and the United States for hundreds of years,
ever since October 18, 1587, when the first "Luzones
Indios" set foot in Morro Bay, California, on board the
Nuestra Seņora de Esperanza, a Manila-built galleon ship
captained by Pedro de Unamuno of Spain.
2) In the first decades of the 20th century, thousands of
Filipinos in California worked in agricultural fields
throughout the state, in cities and regions such as the
Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, the central coast, Imperial
Valley, Orange County, the Inland Empire, Delano,
Bakersfield, Coachella Valley, and the San Francisco Bay
area, and became a critical element in the growth and
political economy of the state, often enduring harsh labor
conditions and poor wages, but persevering and creating a
strong legacy of mutual support, strikes, and organization
for farm labor unionization.
3) The Filipino American population is currently the
largest Asian American and Pacific Islander group in
California and the third largest Asian American and Pacific
Islander group in the United States.
4) Preserving our Filipino communities throughout
California and the United States is critical to the
preservation of Filipino culture, history, traditions, and
heritage and to the preservation of our state and national
history as well as our state and national future.
FISCAL EFFECT : None
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REGISTERED SUPPORT / OPPOSITION :
Support
None on file
Opposition
None on file
Analysis Prepared by : Mukhtar Ali / RLS. / (916) 319-2800