20250SCR_000495CHP INTRODUCED 2024-12-02 AMENDED_SENATE 2025-02-06 AMENDED_SENATE 2025-03-25 PASSED_ASSEMBLY 2025-05-23 PASSED_SENATE 2025-04-28 ENROLLED 2025-05-27 CHAPTERED 2025-05-29 FILED 2025-05-29 2025 SCR CHP CHR 0 Introduced by Senator Umberg (Principal coauthor: Senator Strickland) (Principal coauthor: Assembly Member Nguyen) (Coauthor: Senator Cortese) (Coauthors: Assembly Members Kalra and Ta) LEAD_AUTHOR SENATE Umberg PRINCIPAL_COAUTHOR SENATE Strickland PRINCIPAL_COAUTHOR ASSEMBLY Nguyen COAUTHOR SENATE Cortese COAUTHOR ASSEMBLY Kalra COAUTHOR ASSEMBLY Ta Relative to the fall of Saigon. the fall of Saigon Fiftieth anniversary of the fall of Saigon.

This measure would commemorate the 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon. 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, which is 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.