| 5 | 5 | | LLS NO. R22-0965.01 Jessica Chapman x4636 SR22-003 |
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| 6 | 6 | | Senate Committees |
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| 7 | 7 | | SENATE RESOLUTION 22-003 |
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| 8 | 8 | | C |
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| 9 | 9 | | ONCERNING RECOGNITION OF SINGLE PARENT DAY IN COLORADO.101 |
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| 10 | 10 | | 1 |
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| 11 | 11 | | WHEREAS, Parents invest an immeasurable amount of time,2 |
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| 12 | 12 | | energy, and devotion to raise their children in order to provide them with3 |
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| 13 | 13 | | the love, support, and guidance required to become responsible,4 |
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| 14 | 14 | | productive, and successful adults; and5 |
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| 15 | 15 | | WHEREAS, The responsibility of raising children is particularly6 |
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| 16 | 16 | | difficult when it falls on the shoulders of a single parent; and7 |
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| 17 | 17 | | WHEREAS, Over a quarter of U.S. families with children under8 |
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| 18 | 18 | | 18 years of age are single-parent families, amounting to 10 million9 |
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| 19 | 19 | | households. In 2020, nearly 19 million children were living in10 |
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| 20 | 20 | | single-parent families in the United States; and11 |
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| 21 | 21 | | WHEREAS, In Colorado, over 10 percent of families are led by12 |
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| 22 | 22 | | single parents; and13 |
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| 24 | 24 | | WHEREAS, The greatest need of every child is to be loved, no15 |
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| 25 | 25 | | matter the composition of the child's family; and16 |
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| 30 | | - | Hisey and Zenzinger, Bridges, Buckner, Coleman, Cooke, Danielson, Donovan, Fenberg, |
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| 31 | | - | Fields, Ginal, Gonzales, Hansen, Hinrichsen, Holbert, Jaquez Lewis, Kirkmeyer, Kolker, Lee, |
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| 32 | | - | Liston, Lundeen, Moreno, Pettersen, Priola, Rankin, Rodriguez, Scott, Simpson, Smallwood, |
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| 33 | | - | Sonnenberg, Story, Winter, Woodward |
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| 27 | + | Hisey and Zenzinger, |
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| 34 | 28 | | Shading denotes HOUSE amendment. Double underlining denotes SENATE amendment. |
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| 35 | 29 | | Capital letters or bold & italic numbers indicate new material to be added to existing statute. |
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| 36 | 30 | | Dashes through the words indicate deletions from existing statute. WHEREAS, The dedication and achievements of single parents1 |
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| 37 | 31 | | deserve recognition; and2 |
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| 38 | 32 | | WHEREAS, In 1984, then-President Ronald Reagan declared3 |
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| 39 | 33 | | March 21 as "National Single Parent Day"; now, therefore,4 |
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| 40 | 34 | | Be It Resolved by the Senate of the Seventy-third General5 |
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| 41 | 35 | | Assembly of the State of Colorado:6 |
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| 43 | 37 | | That we, the members of the Colorado Senate, designate March8 |
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| 44 | 38 | | 21, 2022, as "Single Parent Day in Colorado" in recognition of the9 |
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| 45 | 39 | | dedication and achievements of all single parents.10 |
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| 46 | 40 | | Be It Further Resolved, That a copy of this Resolution be sent to11 |
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| 47 | 41 | | Janice S. Moglen, longtime Colorado advocate for Single Parent Day.12 |
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