BILL ANALYSIS Ó ----------------------------------------------------------------- |SENATE RULES COMMITTEE | SR 53| |Office of Senate Floor Analyses | | |(916) 651-1520 Fax: (916) | | |327-4478 | | ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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. SR 53 Page 2 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 SR 53 Page 3 OPPOSITION: (Verified1/13/16) None received Prepared by: Jonas Austin / SFA / (916) 651-1520 1/14/16 15:22:06 **** END ****