Bill Text: CA AJR48 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Chaptered

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Bill Title: Federal memorials: emergency medical services.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2014-09-09 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Res. Chapter 166, Statutes of 2014. [AJR48 Detail]

Download: California-2013-AJR48-Chaptered.html

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BILL NUMBER: AJR 48	CHAPTERED
	BILL TEXT

	RESOLUTION CHAPTER  166
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  SEPTEMBER 9, 2014
	ADOPTED IN SENATE  AUGUST 26, 2014
	ADOPTED IN ASSEMBLY  AUGUST 18, 2014

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Rodriguez

                        JUNE 18, 2014

   Relative to federal memorials.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AJR 48, Rodriguez. Federal memorials: emergency medical services.
   This measure would memorialize the President and Congress of the
United States to enact legislation to authorize the National
Emergency Medical Services Memorial Foundation to establish the
National Emergency Medical Services Memorial in the District of
Columbia.



   WHEREAS, Emergency medical service providers stand on the country'
s first line of defense in the prevention and mitigation of harm from
terrorist attacks, man-made incidents, and natural disasters; and
   WHEREAS, The men and women of emergency medical services serve in
both the public and private sectors as career and volunteer emergency
medical service providers, maintaining the domestic tranquility,
safety, and security of the country; and
   WHEREAS, Each year, 850,000 men and women of emergency medical
services across the country answer more than 30 million calls to
serve 22 million patients in need of pre-hospital care and comfort at
a moment's notice and without reservation; and
   WHEREAS, Statistics compiled by the United States Department of
Labor and the National Highway Safety Administration indicate that
emergency medical service providers die in the line of duty at a rate
more than twice the national average for all occupational fatalities
and seven times higher from violence than all other health care
workers in service to the country; and
   WHEREAS, The National Emergency Medical Services Memorial
Foundation, established in 2007, seeks to give these silent heroes a
fitting memorial and their loved ones, coworkers, and counterparts a
permanent place to remember those the country has lost; and
   WHEREAS, Legislation was introduced in the House of
Representatives on May 20, 2014, to authorize the National Emergency
Medical Services Memorial Foundation to establish the National
Emergency Medical Services Memorial as a commemorative work on
federal land in the District of Columbia or its environs; now,
therefore, be it
   Resolved by the Assembly and the Senate of the State of
California, jointly, That the Legislature of the State of California
hereby memorializes the President and Congress of the United States
to enact legislation to authorize the National Emergency Medical
Services Memorial Foundation to establish the National Emergency
Medical Services Memorial, honoring the commitment and ultimate
sacrifice of emergency medical service providers; and be it further
   Resolved, That the Chief Clerk of the Assembly 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 of the Senate, and to each Senator and Representative
from California in the Congress of the United States.