Relative to QUALCOMM Million Dollar Challenge Commemorative Week.
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Filed with
Secretary of State
September 18, 2007.
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LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
SCR 66, Wyland.
QUALCOMM Million Dollar Challenge Commemorative Week.
This measure would declare the week of October 20 to October 28, 2007, to be QUALCOMM Million Dollar Challenge Commemorative Week.
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Fiscal Committee:
NO
Bill Text
WHEREAS, The Challenged Athletes Foundation (CAF) was established in 1997 to provide opportunities and support for people with physical disabilities so that they can pursue active lifestyles through physical fitness and competitive athletics; and
WHEREAS, CAF has raised more than $11 million dollars thereby allowing it to satisfy more than 2,500 funding requests from challenged athletes in all 50 states and 10 countries; and
WHEREAS, The QUALCOMM Million Dollar Challenge is a seven-day, 600-mile bicycle ride down the California coastline from San Francisco to San Diego, beginning on Saturday, October 20, 2007, with an arrival in San Diego on Friday, October 26, 2007, and including an optional 56-mile final stage on Sunday, October 28, 2007; and
WHEREAS, The money raised from the QUALCOMM Million Dollar Challenge will help seed a capital campaign for the construction of a CAF headquarters facility, unless otherwise directed by the donor, in which case the donation will be applied towards payment for handcycles, racing chairs, sports chairs, and sports prosthetics for challenged athletes, as well as helping to subsidize the competition expenses and training expenses of challenged athletes; now, therefore, be it
Resolved by the Senate of the State of California, the Assembly thereof concurring, That the week of October 20 to October 28, 2007, is hereby declared to be QUALCOMM Million Dollar Challenge Commemorative Week; and be it further
Resolved, That the Secretary of the Senate transmit copies of this resolution to the author for appropriate distribution.