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Posted February 14, 2002 (HRC5) |
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MESSAGES FROM THE HOUSE |
The
following messages were received from the House of
Representatives through its Chief Clerk:
Mr. President: I am instructed by the House of
Representatives to inform the Senate that the House has
taken up adopted and third read HCR 5.
HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION NO. 5
WHEREAS, American Sign Language (ASL) has been appropriately
recognized by the Missouri General Assembly as "a fully
developed, autonomous, unique, visual-gestural language with
its own sytax, rhetoric, grammar and morphology" (Section
209.285, RSMo); and
WHEREAS, there are an estimated 546,000 persons in Missouri
who are deaf or hard of hearing, of whom approximately
10,000 have American Sign Language (ASL) as their first or
native language; and
WHEREAS, the Missouri General Assembly truly values the
socio, cultural, ethnic, and liguistic diversity of its
citizenry:
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the members of the House
of Representatives of the Ninety-first General Assembly,
Second Regular Session, the Senate concurring therein,
hereby recognize American Sign Language as the first or
native language of many of its deaf and hard of hearing
citizens; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the members of the House of
Representatives of the Ninety-first General Assembly, Second
Regular Session, the Senate concurring therein, hereby urge
the Governor to establish by executive order an annual "Deaf
Awareness Week" to be held in September of each year to
coincide with the International Deaf Awareness Week, at
which time the language, culture, and contributions of
Missouri's deaf and hard of hearing citizens will be
recognized; recognize the diversity of deaf and hard of
hearing citizens, including both the oral deaf and the
signing deaf; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Chief Clerk of the Missouri
House of Representatives be instructed to prepare a properly
inscribed copy of this resolution for Governor Bob Holden.
In which the concurrence of the Senate is respectfully
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