BILL ANALYSIS Ó SCR 150 Page 1 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. SCR 150 Page 2 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 SCR 150 Page 3 Analysis Prepared by:Nicole Willis / RLS. / (916) 319-2800