THIRD READING

Bill No: ACR 57

Author: Patterson (R), et al.

Introduced: 3/19/25

Vote: 21

ASSEMBLY FLOOR: 67-0, 4/10/25 (Consent) - See last page for vote

SUBJECT: Lexington and Concord Day

SOURCE: Author

DIGEST:

This resolution recognizes April 19, 2025, as Lexington and Concord Day.

ANALYSIS: This resolution makes the following legislative findings:

April 19, 2025, marks the 250 year anniversary of the Battles of Lexington and Concord, the first battles in the American Revolution.
On the evening of April 18, 1775, Paul Revere and others riders alerted the countryside that British soldiers would be leaving Boston to confiscate and destroy stored arms in Concord and to arrest patriot leaders Sam Adams and John Hancock in Lexington.
Local volunteers, mostly farmers and tradesmen organized into community militias and distinguished by the term “Minutemen,” answered the alarm and proceeded to Lexington and Concord to await the King’s soldiers.
At dawn on April 19, 1775, on the Lexington Green, over 700 British troops, known as “Redcoats,” approached the Green and ordered the 78 patriot volunteers gathered there to disperse. A shot was fired, no one knows by who, that signaled the start of the war for American independence and came to be known as “The Shot Heard Around the World”.
British commanders lost control of their troops and, in the ensuing skirmish on Lexington Green, eight patriot volunteers were killed. The Redcoats continued their march to Concord, where about 400 American volunteers from local communities gathered throughout the morning. The Battles of Lexington and Concord marked the beginning of the American Revolution.

This resolution recognizes April 19, 2025, as Lexington and Concord Day.

Related/Prior Legislation

SCR 47 (Niello, 2025) – In Assembly.

FISCAL EFFECT: Appropriation: No Fiscal Com.: No Local: No

SUPPORT: (Verified 4/30/25)

None received

OPPOSITION: (Verified 4/30/25)

None received

ASSEMBLY FLOOR: 67-0, 4/10/25

AYES: Addis, Aguiar-Curry, Ahrens, Alanis, Alvarez, Arambula, Ávila Farías, Bains, Bennett, Berman, Boerner, Bonta, Bryan, Caloza, Castillo, Connolly, Davies, DeMaio, Dixon, Elhawary, Ellis, Flora, Fong, Gabriel, Gipson, Jeff Gonzalez, Mark González, Hadwick, Haney, Harabedian, Hart, Irwin, Kalra, Krell, Lackey, Lee, Lowenthal, Macedo, McKinnor, Muratsuchi, Nguyen, Ortega, Pacheco, Patel, Patterson, Pellerin, Ramos, Ransom, Michelle Rodriguez, Rogers, Blanca Rubio, Sanchez, Schiavo, Schultz, Sharp-Collins, Solache, Soria, Stefani, Ta, Tangipa, Valencia, Wallis, Ward, Wicks, Wilson, Zbur, Rivas

NO VOTE RECORDED: Bauer-Kahan, Calderon, Carrillo, Chen, Gallagher, Garcia, Hoover, Jackson, Papan, Petrie-Norris, Quirk-Silva, Celeste Rodriguez

Prepared by: Hunter Flynn / SFA / (916) 651-1520

4/30/25 16:48:21

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ACR 57: Lexington and Concord Day.

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