BILL ANALYSIS Ó
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Date of Hearing: August 8, 2016
ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON RULES
Richard S. Gordon, Chair
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126 (Lara) - As Introduced March 31, 2016
SENATE VOTE: 37-0
SUBJECT: Honorable Edward Ross Roybal
SUMMARY: Recognizes the contributions of Honorable Edward Ross
Roybal on the 100th anniversary of his birth. Specifically,
this resolution makes the following legislative findings:
1)The Honorable Edward Ross Roybal was among the country's most
influential Latino leaders, serving in the United States Army
during the Second World War, as a member of the Los Angeles
City Council for 13 years, and as a Member of the United
States Congress for 30 years.
2)Mr. Roybal helped start the Community Service Organization,
which sought to ally the city's diverse neighborhoods to push
progressive issues such as challenging discrimination in
southern California, especially its effects on economic,
education, and housing conditions around Los Angeles.
3)In 1949, Mr. Roybal was elected as a Los Angeles City Council
member, becoming the first Latino to hold that position since
1881 and one of the highest-ranking Latinos in California
municipal government. Mr. Roybal worked to defuse tensions
between the Mexican American community and the Los Angeles
police and fought the city after it ceded a huge swath of
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residential land to its professional baseball team, displacing
many Mexican American families.
4)In 1962, Mr. Roybal was elected to the United States Congress
where he served for 30 years fighting ethnic, racial, and age
discrimination and working to reform the public education
system to increase access to bilingual education.
5)In 1976, Mr. Roybal helped found and also became the first
chairman of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC). He
encouraged United States President Jimmy Carter to hire more
Latino Americans in his administration.
6)During his chairmanship of the CHC, Mr. Roybal founded the
National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed
Officials, a nonpartisan organization that facilitates full
Latino participation in the American political process, from
citizenship to public service, and that provides national
leadership on key issues that affect Latino participation in
our political process, including immigration and
naturalization, voting rights, election reform, the federal
census, and the appointment of qualified Latinos to top
executive and judicial positions.
7)In 1993, Mr. Roybal retired from the United States House of
Representatives and moved back to Los Angeles, where he lived
for 12 more years until his death in 2005, still deeply
involved in the community he had long served.
FISCAL EFFECT: None
REGISTERED SUPPORT / OPPOSITION:
Support
None on file
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Opposition
None on file
Analysis Prepared by:Nicole Willis / RLS. / (916) 319-2800