California Senate Bill SJR1 Amended / Bill

 BILL NUMBER: SJR 1AMENDED BILL TEXT AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY JUNE 29, 2011 INTRODUCED BY Senator Liu  (   Coauthors:   Senators   Hernandez,   Kehoe,   Lowenthal,   Padilla,   Pavley,   Runner,   and Wolk   )   (   Coauthors:   Assembly Members   Block,   Blumenfield,   Bonilla,   Buchanan,   Eng,   Fletcher,   Galgiani,   Hueso,   Huffman,   Jeffries,   Miller,   Portantino,   and V. Manuel Prez   )  MARCH 1, 2011 Relative to the federal Morrill Act. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST SJR 1, as amended, Liu. Postsecondary education: the Morrill Act. This measure would  congratulate the President of the United States and the Congress on their foresight in enacting the Morrill Act which allowed for the establishment of land grant colleges in the United States   memorialize the President and the Congress of the United States to renew the commitment to accessible higher education and the support of research in the interest of the nation  . Fiscal committee: no. WHEREAS, In 1862, the United States was engaged in a Civil War  which   that  divided the nation and depleted its treasury; and WHEREAS, The Congress of the United States sought to energize the vital intellectual resources of the nation by  making   enacting legislation to make  higher education accessible to the public, and thereby apply that intellectual capacity to stimulate the national economy  which   that  , at the time, was based in agriculture and mechanical arts; and WHEREAS, President Abraham Lincoln supported, encouraged, and signed this legislation because it contained ideals that united the North and the South and was able to be executed through the allocation of land grants; and WHEREAS, This legislation, known as the Morrill Act  (7 U.S.C. Sec. 301)  , manifested itself in California with the establishment of the University of California; and WHEREAS, The impact of the University of California, and its sister public  postsecondary  institutions, the California State Universities and the California Community Colleges,  have   has  educated millions of  Californians,   Californians and  strengthened not only the state's  agriculture   agricultural  industry as  premised   promised  by the Morrill Act, but continued to assist the state's economy in each successive wave of innovation, including the industrial age and the information  technology  age; and WHEREAS, The people of California have experienced a profound benefit from the Morrill Act; now, therefore, be it Resolved by the Senate and the Assembly of the State of California, jointly, That the Legislature  respectfully congratulates the President of the United States and the Congress on their foresight in passing the Morrill Act and memorializes them to renew their   memorializes the President of the United States and the Congress to renew the  commitment to accessible higher education and the support of research in the interest of the nation; and be it further Resolved, That the Secretary of the Senate 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   Leader  of the Senate, to each Senator and Representative from California in the Congress of the United States, and to the author for appropriate distribution.