BILL ANALYSIS �
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ASSEMBLY THIRD READING
ACR 74 (Alejo)
As Amended August 16, 2011
Majority vote
RULES 8-0
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|Ayes:|Skinner, Silva, Alejo, | | |
| |Butler, Carter, Hagman, | | |
| |Knight, Williams | | |
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SUMMARY : Expresses the Legislature's apology, on behalf of the
people of the state, for violations of the civil liberties and
constitutional rights of Filipino Americans caused by
antimiscegenation laws that precluded marriage between Filipinos
and Caucasians; and, its regret, on behalf of the people of the
state, for the suffering and hardship endured by Filipino
Americans as a result of governmental actions taken because of
various policies and laws it enacted. Specifically, this
resolution makes the following legislative findings:
1)Filipino Americans endured past transgressions and wrongs
committed against them through the implementation of state
policies and the passage of certain laws, including the
segregation of Filipino Americans through the use of separate
public facilities and targeted policies; and in 1921, the
California Legislature passed an amendment to the Political
Code that allowed the legal establishment of separate schools
for children of Chinese, Japanese, Indian, or Mongolian
heritage.
2)Anti-Filipino vigilante groups committed acts of violence due
to the beliefs that Filipino field laborers were intermingling
with Caucasian women, depressing wages in the harvest fields,
and taking jobs belonging to Americans; and in 1930, the most
explosive anti-Filipino riot occurred in Watsonville,
culminated in the killing of Fermin Tobera, and spread
throughout central California.
3)In 1933, the California Legislature amended its
antimiscegenation law to cause any marriage of Caucasians with
"negroes, Mongolians, members of the Malay race, or mulattoes
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to be illegal and void"; and in 1934, the federal government
passed the Tydings-McDuffie Act, also known as the Philippine
Independence Act, which limited Filipino immigration to 50
persons per year and considered citizens of the Philippine
Island who were not citizens of the United States to be
aliens.
4)In 1935, the United States Congress passed the Filipino
Repatriation Act, which encouraged Filipinos to return to the
Philippines voluntarily; however, those who wanted to return
were subject to the 50-person quota established in the
Tydings-McDuffie Act.
FISCAL EFFECT : None
Analysis Prepared by : Anna McCabe / RLS. / (916) 319-2800
FN: 0001975