SENATE RULES COMMITTEE SR 25
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Bill No: SR 25
Author: Limón (D)
Introduced: 2/25/25
Vote: Majority
SUBJECT: Women’s History Month
SOURCE: Author
DIGEST: This resolution proclaims the month of March 2025 as Women’s
History Month.
ANALYSIS: This resolution makes the following legislative findings:
1) Women’s History Month is now commemorated throughout the nation by
states, schools, historians, and community groups, providing an opportunity to
focus attention on the historical role and accomplishments of women so all can
benefit from an awareness of these contributions.
2) Women of every culture, class, and ethnic background have been essential
participants in the founding and building of our nation and the State of
California and have made historic and substantial contributions to the growth
and strength of our nation and state.
3) Women’s History Month will be not only a call to acknowledge the outstanding
American, and in particular, Californian, women whose names we know, but
also a call to pay homage to the many women who have anonymously shaped
our collective past.
4) Women have been leaders in every movement for social change, including their
own movement for suffrage and equal rights, the fight for emancipation, the
struggle to organize labor unions, and the civil rights movement, as well as
leading the call for peace and organizing to preserve the environment.
5) The achievements of the women who have gone before us will enable
contemporary women and men to create tomorrow’s history by working toward
an end to physical and sexual violence against women, discrimination and
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harassment in employment and education, and the relegation to poverty status
of many women and by advocating for the full participation of women in every
arena, whether politics, government, business, science, technology, or
academia, as well as equal access to all of the opportunities our great nation has
to offer.
This resolution takes pleasure in joining the United States Congress and the
California Commission on the Status of Women and Girls in honoring the
contributions of women, and proclaims the month of March 2025 as Women’s
History Month.
Related/Prior Legislation
SR 56 (Skinner, 2024) – Adopted in Senate.
SR 21 (Skinner, 2023) – Adopted in Senate.
HR 17 (Aguiar-Curry, 2023) – Adopted in Assembly.
SR 75 (Skinner, 2022) – Adopted in Senate.
HR 89 (Cristina Garcia, 2022) – Adopted in Assembly.
SR 15 (Skinner, 2021) – Adopted in Senate.
HR 26 (Cristina Garcia, 2021) – Adopted in Assembly.
FISCAL EFFECT: Appropriation: No Fiscal Com.: No Local: No
SUPPORT: (Verified 3/4/25)
None received
OPPOSITION: (Verified 3/4/25)
None received
Prepared by: Sofia Pachon-Mendez / SFA / (916) 651-1520
3/5/25 15:36:18
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