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          Date of Hearing:   April 3, 2014

                             ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON RULES
                              Richard S. Gordon, Chair
                  ACR 89 (Salas) - As Introduced:  February 3, 2014
           
          SUBJECT  :   Portuguese Heritage Month.

           SUMMARY  :   Recognizes the month of June 2014 as Portuguese  
          Heritage Month and designates the second Saturday of June as a  
          day to celebrate Portuguese culture through music, dance, art,  
          cooking, parades, and other festivities.  Specifically,  this  
          resolution  makes the following legislative findings:

          1)In the early 19th century, the first Portuguese settlers came  
            to California from the Azores Islands, the largest wave of  
            Azorean immigrants moved to California just before and after  
            the turn of the 20th century and industriously set up  
            agricultural operations, especially diary, vegetable, and  
            fruit farms.

          2)Historically, California has been a popular destination for  
            immigrants from the Azores Islands, creating strong cultural  
            ties between two regions: currently there are almost 500,000  
            people of Portuguese heritage living in California.

          3)In 1994, The University of California, Berkeley, established  
            The Portuguese Studies Program with the goal "to spotlight the  
            crucial and complex but often overlooked experience and  
            contributions of the Portuguese American Community."

          4)Portuguese Americans continue to thrive in agricultural  
            communities of the San Joaquin Valley, including Hanford and  
            Lemoore in Kings County and Shafter, Wasco, and Bakersfield in  
            Kern County; they have contributed greatly to making market  
            milk the leading agricultural product by value in both Kings  
            and Kern Counties.

           FISCAL EFFECT  :   None

           REGISTERED SUPPORT / OPPOSITION  :   

           Support 
           
          None on file








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           Opposition 
           
          None on file
           
          Analysis Prepared by  :    Nicole Willis / RLS. / (916) 319-2800