http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/09-10/bill/sen/sb_0551-0600/sb_572_bill_20091011_chaptered.pdf Senate Bill No. 572 CHAPTER 626 An act to amend Section 37222 of the Education Code, and to add Section 6721 to the Government Code, relating to Harvey Milk Day. [Approved by Governor October 11, 2009. Filed with Secretary of State October 11, 2009.] legislative counsel’s digest SB 572, Leno. Harvey Milk Day: official designation. Existing law requires the Governor to proclaim certain days each year for specified reasons. Existing law also designates particular days each year as having special significance in public schools and educational institutions and encourages those entities to conduct suitable commemorative exercises on those dates. This bill  provides that the Governor proclaim May 22 of each year as Harvey Milk Day, and would designate that date as having special significance in public schools and educational institutions and would encourage those entities to conduct suitable commemorative exercises on that date. This bill would incorporate amendments to Section 37222 of the Education Code proposed by both this bill and AB 264, which would become operative only if both bills are enacted and become effective and this bill is chaptered last. The people of the State of California do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The Legislature hereby finds and declares the following: (a) Harvey Bernard Milk was born on May 22, 1930, in Woodmere, New York. He was the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in a major city of the United States. He was assassinated in 1978 at San Francisco’s City Hall by a political rival. Perhaps more than any other modern figure, Harvey Milk’s life and political career embody the rise of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) civil rights movement in California, across the nation, and throughout the world. (b) Harvey Milk graduated from the State University of New York at Albany, in Albany, New York in 1951. Thereafter, he served for a short time in the United States Navy. (c) During the 1960s, Harvey Milk lived in New York City, first working on Wall Street as an investment banker and later as a theater producer. (d) In 1972, Harvey Milk moved with his partner, Scott Smith, to San Francisco, … Continue reading Text of California’s Annual Harvey Milk Day Legislation