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                                    THIRD READING


          Bill No:  SR 53
          Author:   Hall (D) and Mitchell (D)
          Introduced:1/4/16  
          Vote:     Majority

           SUBJECT:   Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day


          SOURCE:    Author


          DIGEST:  This resolution observes Monday, January 18, 2016, 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  
            human rights.









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          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 18, 2016, 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
          
          SR 9 (Mitchell and Hall, Read and Adopted, 1/16/15) observed  
          Monday, January 19, 2015, as the official memorial of Dr. Martin  
          Luther King, Jr.'s birth and his work in the Civil Rights  
          Movement.

          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:   Appropriation:    No          Fiscal  
          Com.:NoLocal:    No


          SUPPORT:   (Verified1/13/16)


          None received










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          OPPOSITION:   (Verified1/13/16)


          None received



          Prepared by:  Jonas Austin / SFA / (916) 651-1520
          1/14/16 15:22:06


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