Amended in Assembly June 9, 2014

California Legislature—2013–14 Regular Session

Assembly Concurrent Resolution No. 153

Introduced by Assembly Member Dickinson

(Principal coauthor: Assembly Member Eggman)

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(Coauthors: Assembly Members Achadjian, Alejo, Ammiano, Atkins, Bloom, Bocanegra, Bonilla, Bonta, Bradford, Brown, Buchanan, Ian Calderon, Campos, Chau, Chávez, Chesbro, Cooley, Dababneh, Daly, Fong, Fox, Frazier, Garcia, Gatto, Gomez, Gonzalez, Gordon, Gorell, Roger Hernández, Holden, Jones-Sawyer, Levine, Lowenthal, Maienschein, Medina, Mullin, Muratsuchi, Nazarian, Nestande, Pan, Perea, V. Manuel Pérez, Quirk, Rendon, Ridley-Thomas, Rodriguez, Skinner, Stone, Ting, Weber, Wieckowski, Williams, and Yamada)

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May 23, 2014

Assembly Concurrent Resolution No. 153—Relative to California LGBT Veterans Day.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST

ACR 153, as amended, Dickinson. California LGBT Veterans Day.

This measure would proclaim June 11, 2014, and June 11 of each subsequent year, California LGBT Veterans Day, to be celebrated statewide.

Fiscal committee: no.

WHEREAS, The 11th day of June has been declared California
LGBT Veterans Day in recognition of the importance of properly
thanking the many people of California who have served their
country while hiding their true selves due to the many policies
against military service while openly lesbian, gay, bisexual, or
transgender (LGBT); and

WHEREAS, During the times of the “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell”
policy of the United States Armed Forces and other antihomosexual
policies that predated that policy, many service members in
honorable standing were ousted from military service and their
benefits removed when their LGBT status became known; and

WHEREAS, The State of California lost the ability to properly
recognize its many daughters and sons who served their country
through the provision of state benefits, recognition, and gratitude
for their service due to the dishonorable manner in which they
were expelled from the military; and

WHEREAS, Multiple forms of this manner of discrimination
have finally been eradicated from the ranks of our United States
Armed Forces and all forms of discrimination have been removed
from the ranks of the California Military Department, the California
National Guard and the State Military Reserve; and

WHEREAS, An appropriate way to acknowledge those who
have previously gone without the level of gratitude appropriate
towards United States veterans is to annually recognize those who
served to protect the freedom of speech for others while they
sacrificed it for themselves; now, therefore, be it

Resolved by the Assembly of the State of California, the Senate
thereof concurring, That the Legislature hereby declares June 11,
2014, and June 11 of each subsequent year, California LGBT
Veterans Day, to be celebrated statewide; and be it further

Resolved, That the Chief Clerk of the Assembly transmit copies
of this resolution to the author for appropriate distribution.