Amended in Assembly April 21, 2016

Amended in Assembly April 12, 2016

California Legislature—2015–16 Regular Session

House Resolution No. 47

Introduced by Assembly Member Cooper

(Coauthors: Assembly Members Gallagher begin delete and Olsen end delete begin insert Olsen, Achadjian, Alejo, Arambula, Atkins, Baker, Bigelow, Bloom, Bonilla, Bonta, Brown, Burke, Calderon, Chang, Chau, Chávez, Chiu, Chu, Cooley, Dababneh, Dahle, Daly, Dodd, Eggman, Frazier, Beth Gaines, Cristina Garcia, Eduardo Garcia, Gatto, Gipson, Gomez, Gonzalez, Gordon, Gray, Grove, Hadley, Harper, Roger Hernández, Holden, Irwin, Jones, Jones-Sawyer, Kim, Lackey, Levine, Linder, Lopez, Low, Maienschein, Mathis, Mayes, McCarty, Medina, Mullin, Nazarian, Obernolte, O'Donnell, Patterson, Quirk, Rendon, Ridley-Thomas, Rodriguez, Salas, Santiago, Steinorth, Mark  end insert begin insert Stone, Thurmond, Wagner, Waldron, Weber, Wilk, Williams, and Wood end insert )

April 4, 2016

House Resolution No. 47—Relative to Walk a Mile in Her Shoes Day.

WHEREAS, Sexual assault and sexual exploitation are major
public concerns at the local, state, and national levels; and

WHEREAS, One in two women and one in five men will
experience sexual violence in their lifetimes; and

WHEREAS, California’s rape crisis centers serve more than
32,000 survivors of sexual assault every year; and

WHEREAS, More than 8 million survivors of sexual violence
live in California; and

WHEREAS, Sexual assault affects Californians of all gender
identities, sexual orientations, races, ethnicities, religions, and
socioeconomic levels; and

WHEREAS, Perpetrators of sexual violence must be held
accountable for their crimes; and

WHEREAS, Public awareness and education about sexual
violence and sexual exploitation are needed for every child, youth,
and adult in our communities; and

WHEREAS, Building community intolerance for sexual violence
requires the collective voices of all citizens; and

WHEREAS, Walk a Mile in Her Shoes represents a public
testament to the power of men’s voices in supporting survivors,
holding perpetrators accountable, and building a community
response against gender-based violence; and

WHEREAS, The largest Walk a Mile in Her Shoes event in the
world is held in Sacramento, California; now, therefore, be it

Resolved by the Assembly of the State of California, That April
23, 2016, be recognized as Walk a Mile in Her Shoes Day; and be
it further

Resolved, That the Assembly urges California’s citizens to
partner with their local rape crisis center to stand with survivors
of sexual assault and build communitywide responses to
gender-based violence; and be it further

Resolved, That the Chief Clerk of the Assembly transmit copies
of this resolution to the author for appropriate distribution.