Bill Text: CA AJR14 | 2019-2020 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Special Olympics.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 59-17-1)

Status: (Passed) 2019-09-09 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Res. Chapter 146, Statutes of 2019. [AJR14 Detail]

Download: California-2019-AJR14-Introduced.html

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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2019–2020 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Joint Resolution

No. 14

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Introduced by Assembly Member Lackey

April 01, 2019

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Relative to Special Olympics.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AJR 14, as introduced, Lackey. Special Olympics.

This measure would call for continued funding of Special Olympics.

Digest Key

Fiscal Committee: NO  

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Bill Text

WHEREAS, In the 1950s and 1960s, Eunice Kennedy Shriver saw how unjustly people with intellectual disabilities were treated and decided to take actions that led to the creation of the Special Olympics; and

WHEREAS, The mission of Special Olympics is to provide year-round sports training and athletic competition in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual disabilities, giving them continuing opportunities to develop physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy, and participate in a sharing of gifts, skills, and friendships with their families, other Special Olympics athletes and the community; and

WHEREAS, Special Olympics is the world’s largest sports organization for children and adults with intellectual disabilities, providing year-round training and competitions to more than 5,300,000 million athletes and Unified Sports partners in 170 countries; and

WHEREAS, Special Olympics is the world’s largest public health organization for people with intellectual disabilities and offers a wide range of free health exams and care; and

WHEREAS, Federal budget cuts to funding for Special Olympics have been proposed; now, therefore be it

Resolved by the Assembly and the Senate of the State of California, jointly, That the Legislature calls for continued funding of Special Olympics; and be it further

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