BILL NUMBER: ACR 153	ENROLLED
	BILL TEXT

	ADOPTED IN SENATE  AUGUST 4, 2014
	ADOPTED IN ASSEMBLY  JUNE 9, 2014
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JUNE 9, 2014

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Dickinson
   (Principal coauthor: Assembly Member Eggman)
   (Coauthors: Assembly Members Achadjian, Alejo, Ammiano, Atkins,
Bloom, Bocanegra, Bonilla, Bonta, Bradford, Brown, Buchanan, Ian
Calderon, Campos, Chau, Chávez, Chesbro, Cooley, Dababneh, Daly,
Fong, Fox, Frazier, Garcia, Gatto, Gomez, Gonzalez, Gordon, Gorell,
Roger Hernández, Holden, Jones-Sawyer, Levine, Lowenthal,
Maienschein, Medina, Mullin, Muratsuchi, Nazarian, Nestande, Pan,
Perea, V. Manuel Pérez, Quirk, Rendon, Ridley-Thomas, Rodriguez,
Skinner, Stone, Ting, Weber, Wieckowski, Williams, and Yamada)

                        MAY 23, 2014

   Relative to California LGBT Veterans Day.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   ACR 153, Dickinson. California LGBT Veterans Day.
   This measure would proclaim June 11, 2014, and June 11 of each
subsequent year, California LGBT Veterans Day, to be celebrated
statewide.



   WHEREAS, The 11th day of June has been declared California LGBT
Veterans Day in recognition of the importance of properly thanking
the many people of California who have served their country while
hiding their true selves due to the many policies against military
service while openly lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender (LGBT);
and
   WHEREAS, During the times of the "Don't Ask Don't Tell" policy of
the United States Armed Forces and other antihomosexual policies that
predated that policy, many service members in honorable standing
were ousted from military service and their benefits removed when
their LGBT status became known; and
   WHEREAS, The State of California lost the ability to properly
recognize its many daughters and sons who served their country
through the provision of state benefits, recognition, and gratitude
for their service due to the dishonorable manner in which they were
expelled from the military; and
   WHEREAS, Multiple forms of this manner of discrimination have
finally been eradicated from the ranks of our United States Armed
Forces and all forms of discrimination have been removed from the
ranks of the California Military Department, the California National
Guard and the State Military Reserve; and
   WHEREAS, An appropriate way to acknowledge those who have
previously gone without the level of gratitude appropriate towards
United States veterans is to annually recognize those who served to
protect the freedom of speech for others while they sacrificed it for
themselves; now, therefore, be it
   Resolved by the Assembly of the State of California, the Senate
thereof concurring, That the Legislature hereby declares June 11,
2014, and June 11 of each subsequent year, California LGBT Veterans
Day, to be celebrated statewide; and be it further
   Resolved, That the Chief Clerk of the Assembly transmit copies of
this resolution to the author for appropriate distribution.