Asm. Paul J Cook

Co-sponsor ACR 89

Signed into law · California Assembly · Co-sponsor

Relative to Italian American Heritage Month.

This measure would designate the month of October 2009, and every October thereafter, as Italian American Heritage Month. This measure would encourage public schools to highlight and include Italian American achievements and contributions to the culture of California and to take steps to promote the inclusion of the role and contributions of Italian Americans to the culture and history of California and the United States in elementary and secondary social science textbooks during the revision process for those textbooks.

Signed into law Sep 23, 2009 1 co-sponsor

Co-sponsor ACR 77

Signed into law · California Assembly · Co-sponsor

Relative to the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006.

This measure would urge the State Air Resources Board to meet the statutory requirements of the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 by ensuring that its analysis of specified emission reduction measures include prescribed components.

Signed into law Sep 23, 2009 1 co-sponsor

Co-sponsor ACR 94

Signed into law · California Assembly · Co-sponsor

Relative to the CHP Officer Joseph P. Sanders Memorial Highway.

This measure would designate specified portions of State Highway Route 60 and corresponding on ramps and off ramps as the CHP Officer Joseph P. Sanders Memorial Highway.

Signed into law Sep 23, 2009 1 co-sponsor

Co-sponsor ACR 76

Signed into law · California Assembly · Co-sponsor

Relative to Day of Inclusion.

This measure would acknowledge December 17 each year as an annual "Day of Inclusion" in recognition and appreciation of the priceless contributions of all immigrants to the greatness of the United States and California.

Signed into law Sep 23, 2009 1 co-sponsor

Co-sponsor AJR 14

Signed into law · California Assembly · Co-sponsor

Armenian Genocide: Day of Remembrance.

This measure would designate April 24, 2009, as "California Day of Remembrance for the Armenian Genocide of 1915–1923." It would memorialize the Congress and the President of the United States to act likewise to commemorate the Armenian Genocide.

Signed into law Sep 21, 2009 1 co-sponsor

Co-sponsor AJR 17

Signed into law · California Assembly · Co-sponsor

Relative to HIV/AIDS health disparities.

This measure would urge the President of the United States, the United States Congress, and the United States Secretary of Health and Human Services to take specified actions in regards to health disparities, particularly as they relate to HIV/AIDS funding.

Signed into law Sep 16, 2009 1 co-sponsor

Co-sponsor ACR 3

Signed into law · California Assembly · Co-sponsor

Relative to César Chávez Day.

This measure would recognize March 31, 2009, as the anniversary of the birth of César Chávez, and would call upon all Californians to participate in appropriate observances to remember César Chávez as a symbol of hope and justice to all persons.

Signed into law Sep 16, 2009 1 co-sponsor

Co-sponsor ACR 85

Signed into law · California Assembly · Co-sponsor

Relative to New United Motor Manufacturing, Inc.

This measure would make various statements regarding the importance of New United Motor Manufacturing, Inc. (NUMMI) to the California economy and would declare the necessity for the Legislature to utilize its vested powers to keep NUMMI in California.

Signed into law Sep 16, 2009 1 co-sponsor

Co-sponsor ACR 33

Signed into law · California Assembly · Co-sponsor

Relative to the Deputy Kent Hintergardt Memorial Highway.

This measure would designate a specified portion of State Highway Route 15 in Temecula as the Deputy Kent Hintergardt Memorial Highway. The measure would also request the Department of Transportation to determine the cost of appropriate signs showing this special designation and, upon receiving donations from nonstate sources covering those costs, to erect those signs.

Signed into law Sep 1, 2009 1 co-sponsor

Co-sponsor SJR 7

Signed into law · California Senate · Co-sponsor

Relative to pancreatic cancer.

This measure would urge the President and the Congress of the United States to expand federally funded research efforts aimed at developing a reliable means of detecting pancreatic cancer in its early stages.

Signed into law Aug 24, 2009 1 co-sponsor