City of Baltimore - File #: 13-0121R

• File #: 13-0121R
• Version: 0
• Name: Constitution Day - September 17, 2013
• Type: City Council Resolution
• Status: Adopted
• File created: 9/9/2013
• In control: City Council
• Final action: 9/9/2013
• Title: Constitution Day - September 17, 2013 FOR the purpose of recognizing September 17, 2013 as Constitution and Citizenship Day in Baltimore City, and urging all Baltimoreans, especially our young people, to take this day as an opportunity to reflect on the basic rights and responsibilities of citizenship, as well as the high ideals enshrined in the Constitution and its Amendments, that unite us as Americans.
• Sponsors: Mary Pat Clarke, James B. Kraft, Bill Henry, Sharon Green Middleton, President Young, William H. Cole, IV, Warren Branch, Edward Reisinger, Carl Stokes, Brandon M. Scott, Helen L. Holton, Rochelle Spector, William "Pete" Welch, Robert Curran, Nick Mosby
• Indexes: Resolution

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
9/9/2013	0	City Council	Introduced
9/9/2013	0	City Council	Advanced to 2nd Reader on same day
9/9/2013	0	City Council	Adopted

* WARNING: THIS IS AN UNOFFICIAL, INTRODUCTORY COPY OF THE BILL.
THE OFFICIAL COPY CONSIDERED BY THE CITY COUNCIL IS THE FIRST READER COPY.
INTRODUCTORY*

CITY OF BALTIMORE
COUNCIL BILL R
(Resolution)

Introduced by: Councilmember Clarke



A RESOLUTION ENTITLED

A COUNCIL RESOLUTION concerning
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Constitution Day - September 17, 2013

FOR the purpose of recognizing September 17, 2013 as Constitution and Citizenship Day in Baltimore City, and urging all Baltimoreans, especially our young people, to take this day as an opportunity to reflect on the basic rights and responsibilities of citizenship, as well as the high ideals enshrined in the Constitution and its Amendments, that unite us as Americans.
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Recitals

Constitution Day (or Citizenship Day) is a federal holiday that recognizes the ratification of the United States Constitution, and also recognizes all who have become citizens due to either coming of age or naturalization. It is observed on September 17, the day the U.S. Constitutional Convention signed the Constitution in 1787.

The law establishing the holiday was created in 2004 with the passage of an amendment by the late Senator Robert Byrd to the Omnibus spending bill. Before the law was enacted, the holiday was known as “Citizenship Day.” In addition to renaming the holiday “Constitution Day and Citizenship Day,” the act – Public Law 108477 – requires that all schools that receive federal funds of any kind hold educational programming on the history of the American Constitution for their students on September 17 of every year.

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