| R 210 |
| 2019 -- S 0796 Enacted 04/10/2019 |
| S E N A T E R E S O L U T I O N |
| PROCLAIMING APRIL 10, 2019, TO BE "LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF RHODE ISLAND 100TH ANNIVERSARY DAY" |
| Introduced By: Senator Dawn M. Euer |
| Date Introduced: April 09, 2019 |
| WHEREAS, The League of Women Voters is a nonpartisan organization that encourages |
| the informed and active participation of citizens in government, works to increase understanding |
| of major public policy issues, and influences public policy through education and advocacy; and |
| WHEREAS, Carrie Chapman Catt, the President of the National Woman Suffrage |
| Association, proposed the National League of Women Voters as a department of the National |
| Woman Suffrage Association at their convention in St. Louis, Missouri, on March 19, 1919, a |
| year before the 19th Amendment was passed; and |
| WHEREAS, A state charter was secured for the League of Women Voters of Rhode |
| Island State Division by the Rhode Island Equal Suffrage Association on April 1, 1919; and |
| WHEREAS, A state charter was secured for the League of Women Voters of Providence |
| by the Rhode Island Suffrage Party April 9, 1919; and |
| WHEREAS, For 100 years, the League of Women Voters of Rhode Island and the |
| League of Women Voters of Providence have collaborated with other organizations to increase |
| civil participation and achieve mutual goals such as fair elections, open government, campaign |
| finance reform, quality schools and libraries, women’s rights, and environmental issues; now, |
| therefore be it |
| RESOLVED, That this Senate of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations |
| hereby congratulates the League of Women Voters of Rhode Island and the League of Women |
| Voters of Providence, as well as the League of Women Voters of Newport County, the League of |
| Women Voters of South County, and the League of Women Voters Members-at-Large, on the |
| occasion of their 100th Anniversary; and be it further |
| RESOLVED, That this Senate of the State of Rhode and Providence Plantations hereby |
| proclaims April 10, 2019, as “League of Women Voters of Rhode Island 100th Anniversary |
| Day”; and be it further |
| RESOLVED, That the Secretary of State be and hereby is authorized and directed to |
| transmit a duly certified copy of this resolution to Ms. Jane Koster, President of the Rhode Island |
| League of Women Voters. |
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