07 LC 21
9360
House
Bill 737
By:
Representative Epps of the
128th
A
BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
AN ACT
To
amend Chapter 4 of Title 1 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating
to holidays and observations, so as to declare Franklin Delano Roosevelt Day in
Georgia; to make certain legislative observations; to repeal conflicting laws;
and for other purposes.
BE
IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA:
SECTION
1.
Chapter
4 of Title 1 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to holidays and
observations, is amended by adding a new Code section to read as
follows:
"1-4-17.
(a)
The General Assembly recognizes that:
(1)
Franklin Delano Roosevelt became the thirty-second President of the United
States of America in March, 1933, in the depths of the Great Depression, and was
reelected for an unprecedented three more terms;
(2)
FDR, as he was affectionately known, died in office in April, 1945, less than
one month before the surrender of Germany in World War II, at his beloved Warm
Springs, Georgia, the 'Little White House';
(3)
Despite an attack of polio, which paralyzed his legs in 1921 at age 39,
President Roosevelt persisted with strength and courage to lead the American
people during the strains of economic crisis and world war;
(4)
President Roosevelt visited Warm Springs, Georgia, in 1924 to partake of the
town´s naturally heated mineral springs to treat his polio related
paralysis and found considerable relief from his illness;
(5)
President Roosevelt was enchanted with Warm Springs; he built the only home he
ever owned there, and from that time forward, his modest six room cottage became
known as the Little White House;
(6)
It was from Warm Springs that President Roosevelt is believed to have developed
New Deal policies that affected the entire nation;
(7)
Franklin Delano Roosevelt was one of our nation´s greatest Presidents, and
his legacies continue beyond enumeration, and include the continuation of the
hospital he founded for the treatment of polio patients to an internationally
recognized comprehensive medical and vocational rehabilitation facility known as
the Roosevelt Warm Springs Institute for Rehabilitation in Warm Springs,
Georgia; and
(8)
January 30, 2006, was the 124th anniversary of Franklin Delano Roosevelt´s
birth and it is abundantly fitting and proper for the House of Representatives
to recognize this signal event.
(b)
January 30 of each year is designated 'Franklin Delano Roosevelt Day' in
Georgia."
SECTION
2.
All
laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act are repealed.