BILL NUMBER: ACR 19	CHAPTERED
	BILL TEXT

	RESOLUTION CHAPTER   21
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE   MAY 4, 1995
	ADOPTED IN ASSEMBLY   MAY 1, 1995
	ADOPTED IN SENATE   APRIL 17, 1995
	AMENDED IN SENATE   APRIL 17, 1995
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY   APRIL 3, 1995

INTRODUCED BY  Assembly Members Horcher, Aguiar, Alpert,
Archie-Hudson, Baca, Baldwin, Bates, Bordonaro, Bowen, Valerie Brown,
Brulte, Burton, Bustamante, Caldera, Campbell, Cannella, Conroy,
Cortese, Davis, Ducheny, Escutia, Figueroa, Friedman, Frusetta,
Gallegos, Granlund, Hannigan, Harvey, Hauser, Hawkins, Hoge, House,
Isenberg, Johnson, Kaloogian, Katz, Kuehl, Lee, Machado, Martinez,
Mazzoni, McDonald, McPherson, Morrow, Napolitano, Poochigian,
Pringle, Rainey, Richter, Rogan, Setencich, Sher, Sweeney, Takasugi,
Thompson, Tucker, Vasconcellos, Villaraigosa, and Weggeland
   (Coauthors:  Senators Alquist, Ayala, Beverly, Boatwright,
Calderon, Campbell, Costa, Craven, Dills, Greene, Hayden, Haynes,
Hughes, Hurtt, Johannessen, Johnston, Kelley, Killea, Kopp, Leonard,
Leslie, Lewis, Lockyer, Maddy, Marks, Mello, Monteith, Mountjoy, O'
Connell, Peace, Petris, Polanco, Rogers, Rosenthal, Russell, Solis,
Thompson, Watson, and Wright)

                        MARCH 7, 1995

   Assembly Concurrent Resolution No. 19--Relative to the Armenian
Genocide.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   ACR 19, Horcher.  Armenian Genocide:  80th anniversary.
   This measure would commemorate the survival of the Armenian people
on the 80th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide.




   WHEREAS, The Armenian Genocide of 1915 subjected an entire nation
to the highest degree of dehumanization, and led 1.5 million people,
one-third of the nation's population, to their deaths; and
   WHEREAS, On April 24, 1915, intellectuals and physicians were
rounded up and executed, and adult males were taken from their homes
and slaughtered en masse, leaving the elderly and the women and
children without protection, to face the death marches through
southern Anatolian deserts in bitter cold and blistering heat without
food, water, or shelter; and
   WHEREAS, As a result, the land that had been home to the Armenians
for nearly 3,000 years was swiftly emptied of its population; now,
therefore, be it
   Resolved by the Assembly of the State of California, the Senate
thereof concurring, That the Legislature of the State of California
is honored to commemorate the survival of the Armenian people on the
80th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide; and be it further
   Resolved, That the Chief Clerk of the Assembly transmit copies of
this resolution to the Governor and to the Armenian Genocide
Commemorative Committee.