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          Date of Hearing:   May 2, 2016


                             ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON RULES


                                    Gordon, Chair


          SCR  
                        123 (Jackson) - As Amended April 6, 2016


          SENATE VOTE:  38-0


          SUBJECT:  Sexual Assault Awareness Month:  Denim Day California


          SUMMARY:  Designates the month of April 2016 as Sexual Assault  
          Awareness Month; recognizes April 27, 2016 as Denim Day  
          California; and, encourages everyone to wear jeans on that day  
          to help communicate the message that there is no excuse for, and  
          never an invitation to commit rape.  Specifically, this  
          resolution makes the following legislative findings:


          1)In 2014, California rape crisis centers provided direct crisis  
            intervention services to 31,781 individuals, provided 7,389  
            sexual assault forensic examinations, and provided community  
            education services for almost 20,000 people.

          2)The National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey  
            reports that there are more than 22 million survivors of rape  
            in the United States; and, 2 million of those survivors live  
            in California impacting women, children, and men of all racial  
            and economic backgrounds.

          3)Women, children, and men suffer multiple types of sexual  
            violence, including acquaintance rape, stranger rape, sexual  
            assault by an intimate partner, gang rape, incest, serial  
            rape, ritual abuse, sexual harassment, child sexual  








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            molestation, prostitution, pornography, and stalking.

          4)Thousands of vulnerable children in our state are being  
            sexually exploited and assaulted for commercial gain, and from  
            2011 to 2013, California's nine human trafficking task forces  
            identified 1,277 victims, 72 percent of whom are from the  
            United States.

          5)Denim Day has been designated to bring awareness about rape  
            and sexual assault; and, rape prevention and education efforts  
            are underway in California to challenge the societal myths and  
            behaviors that perpetuate rape and to engage communities in a  
            common goal of ending sexual assault.
             
          FISCAL EFFECT:  None


          REGISTERED SUPPORT / OPPOSITION:


          Support


          None on file 


          Opposition
          None on file


          Analysis Prepared by:Nicole Willis / RLS. / (916) 319-2800
          


















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