BILL ANALYSIS
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ASSEMBLY THIRD READING
ACR 123 (Chesbro)
As Amended March 18, 2010
Majority vote
RULES 10-0
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|Ayes:|Skinner, Gaines, Nielsen, | | |
| |Caballero, Hagman, Hall, | | |
| |Swanson, Mendoza, Silva, | | |
| |Torlakson | | |
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SUMMARY : Proclaims the third Monday of each September as
California Memorial Project Remembrance Day. Specifically, this
resolution makes the following legislative findings:
1)Since 1852 when the first California state institution opened,
the state has provided services to persons with disabilities
in state institutions, including state hospitals and
developmental centers; and, from the mid-1880s to the 1960s,
more than 45,000 individuals passed away while residents of a
state institution, and information about these patients is
incomplete.
2)For the most part, the remains of the individuals who died at
state institutions were placed in unmarked or numbered graves
in mass sites, where numbered markers long ago disappeared and
many records identifying where bodies were buried have been
misplaced or destroyed.
3)SB 1448 (Chapter 440, Statutes of 2002) and SB 258 (Chapter
391, Statutes of 2006), authored by Senator Wesley Chesbro,
established the partnership between the California Memorial
Project and the state to identify the location of gravesites
at existing state institutions, identify the names of the
patients whose remains were donated for medical research and
the entity to which the remains were donated, work with the
State Department of Mental Health and other state agencies to
research the records of deaths and burials at cemeteries
located on state institution grounds, and develop a plan for
the restoration of cemeteries and gravesites of
institutionalized persons.
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4)Beginning in 2003 the California Memorial Project has held a
Remembrance Day to remember and honor individuals who lived
and died in state institutions on the third Monday of each
September, the anniversary of the signing of the legislation
that established the California Memorial Project partnership
with the state.
FISCAL EFFECT : None
Analysis Prepared by : Anna McCabe / RLS. / (916) 319-2800
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