Wisconsin 2025-2026 Regular Session

Wisconsin Senate Bill SJR8 Compare Versions

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4	4	2025 SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION 8
5	5	February 12, 2025 - Introduced by Senators SMITH, L. JOHNSON, CARPENTER,
6	6	PFAFF, RATCLIFF, ROYS, SPREITZER, WIRCH, HESSELBEIN and LARSON,
7	7	cosponsored by Representatives EMERSON, PHELPS, MOORE OMOKUNDE,
8	8	ANDRACA, ARNEY, BARE, BROWN, CLANCY, DOYLE, FITZGERALD, GOODWIN,
9	9	HONG, HYSELL, J. JACOBSON, JOERS, JOHNSON, KIRSCH, MADISON, MAYADEV,
10	10	MIRESSE, ORTIZ-VELEZ, PALMERI, PRADO, RIVERA-WAGNER, ROE, SHEEHAN,
11	11	SINICKI, SNODGRASS, STUBBS, SUBECK, TENORIO, UDELL, VINING and TAYLOR.
12	12	Referred to Committee on Senate Organization.
13	13	Relating to: proclaiming February 4, 2025, as Transit Equity Day.
14	14	Whereas, Rosa Parks was an iconic figure in the movements for social justice
15	15	and racial equality and played a major role in the inception of the Civil Rights
16	16	Movement that ended legal segregation in the United States; and
17	17	Whereas, the immediate focus of Rosa Parks[s historic protest was the
18	18	unequal access of African Americans to public transit; and
19	19	Whereas, unequal access to public transit based on race, income, and
20	20	disability has persisted to this day; and
21	21	Whereas, paratransit is a necessary component for any public transit system
22	22	to ensure accessibility for people with disabilities who require it, and any expansion
23	23	of public transit necessitates further strengthening of paratransit so that it is
24	24	minimally held to the same reliability and timelines standards as other parts of the
25	25	system; and
26	26	Whereas, the required expansion of public transit to address the climate crisis
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42	42	provides an unprecedented opportunity to continue the tradition of Rosa Parks and
43	43	the Civil Rights Movement by ensuring that transit systems are affordable and
44	44	accessible and that people of color, economically disadvantaged people, people with
45	45	disabilities, and other marginalized populations have full access to the benefits of
46	46	public transit; and
47	47	Whereas, the expansion of public transit provides an unprecedented
48	48	opportunity to create a large number of good, environmentally sustainable, high-
49	49	skill, family-supporting transit operation jobs, as well as construction jobs for
50	50	building new transit facilities; and
51	51	Whereas, increased community access to public transit reduces racial,
52	52	economic, and other disparities while building mobile equity within the community;
53	53	now, therefore, be it
54	54	Resolved by the senate, the assembly concurring, That the day of
55	55	February 4, 2025, shall be designated as Transit Equity Day in Wisconsin.
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