HR 29
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Date of Hearing: April 7, 2025
ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON RULES
Blanca Pacheco, Chair
HR 29 (Gabriel) – As Introduced March 28, 2025
SUBJECT: Education and Sharing Day, California.
SUMMARY: Proclaims Wednesday, April 9, 2025, as “Education and Sharing Day, California”
and calls upon government officials, educators, volunteers, and citizens to reach out to those
within their communities and work to create a better, brighter, and more hopeful future for all.
Specifically, this resolution makes the following legislative findings:
1) The basis for the continuity of any society is education, and in the great State of California
the education of our youth is a priority. In order to achieve its highest goals, education must
not only impart knowledge but also teach pupils and students how to live, forming and
strengthening their moral character to make a better life for themselves as individuals and for
society as a whole.
2) Such an education can nurture the unity of diverse peoples through encouraging increased
acts of goodness and kindness, imbued with the awareness that even a single positive act of
an individual can change the world and usher in an era of global peace.
3) A global spiritual leader, the Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, stressed that a moral
and ethical education empowers every individual to develop their full potential in making the
world a better place. For more than 40 years, the President of the United States has
recognized and honored the Rebbe’s vision each year on his birthdate by proclaiming it
“Education and Sharing Day, USA.”
4) “Education and Sharing Day, USA” is observed each year on the Rebbe’s birthday in
recognition of his outstanding and lasting contributions toward the improvement of
education, morality, and acts of charity around the world; a day to pause and reflect on our
responsibility to ensure that our youth have the foundation necessary to lead lives rich in
purpose and fulfillment through service and good works.
5) April 9, 2025, will mark 123 years since the Rebbe’s birth, and this year begins the
celebrations of the 76th anniversary of his leadership of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement.
FISCAL EFFECT: This resolution is keyed non-fiscal by Legislative Counsel.
REGISTERED SUPPORT / OPPOSITION:
Support
None on file
Opposition
None on file
Analysis Prepared by: Michael Erke / RLS. / (916) 319-2800