BILL NUMBER: SJR 1	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JUNE 29, 2011

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Liu
    (   Coauthors:   Senators  
Hernandez,   Kehoe,   Lowenthal,  
Padilla,   Pavley,   Runner,   and Wolk
  ) 
    (   Coauthors:   Assembly Members 
 Block,   Blumenfield,   Bonilla,  
Buchanan,   Eng,   Fletcher,   Galgiani,
  Hueso,   Huffman,   Jeffries,  
Miller,   Portantino,   and V. Manuel Pérez 
 ) 

                        MARCH 1, 2011

   Relative to the federal Morrill Act.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SJR 1, as amended, Liu. Postsecondary education: the Morrill Act.
   This measure would  congratulate the President of the
United States and the Congress on their foresight in enacting the
Morrill Act which allowed for the establishment of land grant
colleges in the United States   memorialize the
President and the Congress of the United States to renew the
commitment to accessible higher education and the support of research
in the interest of the nation  .
   Fiscal committee: no.



   WHEREAS, In 1862, the United States was engaged in a Civil War
 which   that  divided the nation and
depleted its treasury; and
   WHEREAS, The Congress of the United States sought to energize the
vital intellectual resources of the nation by  making
  enacting legislation to make  higher education
accessible to the public, and thereby apply that intellectual
capacity to stimulate the national economy  which 
 that  , at the time, was based in agriculture and
mechanical arts; and
   WHEREAS, President Abraham Lincoln supported, encouraged, and
signed this legislation because it contained ideals that united the
North and the South and was able to be executed through the
allocation of land grants; and
   WHEREAS, This legislation, known as the Morrill Act  (7 U.S.C.
Sec. 301)  , manifested itself in California with the
establishment of the University of California; and
   WHEREAS, The impact of the University of California, and its
sister public  postsecondary  institutions, the California
State Universities and the California Community Colleges, 
have   has  educated millions of 
Californians,   Californians and  strengthened not
only the state's  agriculture   agricultural
 industry as  premised   promised  by
the Morrill Act, but continued to assist the state's economy in each
successive wave of innovation, including the industrial age and the
information  technology  age; and
   WHEREAS, The people of California have experienced a profound
benefit from the Morrill Act; now, therefore, be it
   Resolved by the Senate and the Assembly of the State of
California, jointly, That the Legislature  respectfully
congratulates the President of the United States and the Congress on
their foresight in passing the Morrill Act and memorializes them to
renew their   memorializes the President of the United
States and the Congress to renew the  commitment to accessible
higher education and the support of research in the interest of the
nation; and be it further
   Resolved, That the Secretary of the Senate transmit copies of this
resolution to the President and Vice President of the United States,
to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, to the Majority
 leader   Leader  of the Senate, to each
Senator and Representative from California in the Congress of the
United States, and to the author for appropriate distribution.