BILL ANALYSIS Ó
-----------------------------------------------------------------
|SENATE RULES COMMITTEE | SR 9|
|Office of Senate Floor Analyses | |
|1020 N Street, Suite 524 | |
|(916) 651-1520 Fax: (916) | |
|327-4478 | |
-----------------------------------------------------------------
THIRD READING
Bill No: SR 9
Author: Mitchell (D) and Hall (D)
Amended: As introduced
Vote: Majority
SUBJECT : Martin Luther King Jr. Day
SOURCE : Author
DIGEST : This resolution observes Monday, January 19, 2015, as
the official memorial of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.s birth and
his work in the Civil Rights Movement.
ANALYSIS : This resolution makes the following legislative
findings:
1.One hundred years after the Emancipation Proclamation, on
August 28, 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and others
organized hundreds of thousands of blacks and whites, Jews and
gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, in a march to the Lincoln
Memorial in Washington, DC where Dr. King made his famous "I
Have a Dream" speech announcing that the days of segregation
in the United States were numbered.
2.Dr. King and the Civil Rights Movement helped change public
policy from legal and socially acceptable discrimination and
segregation to an open and accessible policy of racial
integration leading to equal participation and access to
primary and higher education, housing, employment,
transportation, federal, state, and local governmental
elections, and other aspects of public policy relating to
CONTINUED
SR 9
Page
2
human rights.
3.These public policy changes at the national level influenced
many changes in California that culminated in the passage of
the Unruh Civil Rights Act and the Rumford Fair Housing Act,
in open enrollment and access to higher education specifically
with respect to the California State University and the
University of California, and in employment and labor laws,
transportation policy, election laws, and other aspects of
public policy.
4.Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement
serve as a model for principled leadership and
forward-thinking, bipartisan public policy.
This resolution observes Monday, January 19, 2015, as the
official memorial of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birth and his
work in the Civil Rights Movement; and that this day, Dr. Martin
Luther King, Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement be commemorated
for their help in changing public policy from segregation to
integration, for the betterment of California and the United
States of America.
Prior legislation . SCR 73 (Mitchell, Resolution Chapter 1,
Statutes of 2014) commemorated Martin Luther King, Jr. Day and
the work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Civil Rights
Movement.
FISCAL EFFECT : Fiscal Com.: No
MW:m 1/15/15 Senate Floor Analyses
SUPPORT/OPPOSITION: NONE RECEIVED
**** END ****