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SCR-4 Fiftieth anniversary of the fall of Saigon.(2025-2026)



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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2025–2026 REGULAR SESSION

Senate Concurrent Resolution
No. 4

Introduced by Senator Umberg

December 02, 2024

Relative to the fall of Saigon.


LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


SCR 4, as introduced, Umberg. Fiftieth anniversary of the fall of Saigon.
This measure would commemorate the 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon.
Fiscal Committee: NO  
WHEREAS, The fall of Saigon on April 30, 1975, and the culmination of the Vietnam War led to the United States-sponsored evacuation of approximately 125,000 Vietnamese refugees in a first wave and hundreds of thousands more during the two-decade long Indochinese refugee crisis, creating what would become the United States’ sixth largest foreign-born group; and
WHEREAS, Vietnamese immigrants and their United States-born children comprise one of the largest diaspora populations in the United States, at more than 1,800,000 individuals, and a large proportion of the first generation arrived in the aftermath of the Vietnam War; and
WHEREAS, California is home to 35 percent of the Vietnamese American population, the largest share in the country; and
WHEREAS, California has one of the highest populations of Vietnam veterans in the country, and 5,822 service members from California died or went missing in the conflict; now, therefore, be it
Resolved by the Senate of the State of California, the Assembly thereof concurring, That the Legislature hereby commemorates the 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon on April 30, 2025; and be it further
Resolved, That the Secretary of the Senate transmit copies of this resolution to the author for appropriate distribution.