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          Date of Hearing:   August 19, 2016


                             ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON RULES


                              Richard S. Gordon, Chair


          SCR  
                       150 (Gaines) - As Amended August 18, 2016


          SENATE VOTE:  36-0


          SUBJECT:  Domestic Violence Awareness Month


          SUMMARY:  Proclaims the month of October 2016, and each  
          following October, as Domestic Violence Awareness Month.   
          Specifically, this resolution makes the following legislative  
          findings: 


          1)Domestic violence is a significant public health and safety  
            issue that affects women, men, and children of all racial,  
            religious, ethnic, and socioeconomic groups in California.



          2)Nearly 20 people per minute are physically abused by an  
            intimate partner, which means more than 10 million women and  
            men in the United States are abused each year.



          3)California law enforcement agencies received over 150,000  
            domestic violence-related calls in 2014, including reports of  
            more than 100 domestic violence-related homicides. There are  
            more than 20,000 additional phone calls placed each day to  
            domestic violence hotlines nationwide.








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          4)Because 75 percent of domestic violence victims have children  
            at home under the age of 18, the impact of domestic abuse has  
            both immediate and generational effects.  In 2011, nearly 21  
            percent of children in the United States were exposed to  
            domestic violence, either as victims or indirectly as  
            witnesses, illustrating the magnitude of this problem.



          5)The cost of domestic violence exceeds $5.8 billion each year  
            in the United States - $4.1 billion in direct medical and  
            health care services and nearly $1.8 billion in lost  
            productivity, which includes approximately 8,000,000 days of  
            work lost by abused women each year - equivalent to more than  
            32,000 full-time jobs.



          6)Domestic violence programs in California provide essential,  
            lifesaving services to nearly 6,000 victims and their children  
            each day as they flee violence; and overall, state-funded  
            domestic violence programs provide individual counseling to an  
            average of nearly 34,000 victims each year.
          FISCAL EFFECT:  None


          REGISTERED SUPPORT / OPPOSITION:


          Support


          None on file


          Opposition
          None on file










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