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Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 4 CHAPTER 74 Relative to the fall of Saigon. [ Filed with Secretary of State May 29, 2025. ] LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST SCR 4, Umberg. Fiftieth anniversary of the fall of Saigon. This measure would commemorate the 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon. Digest Key Fiscal Committee: NO Bill Text WHEREAS, The fall of Saigon on April 30, 1975, and the culmination of the Vietnam War, led to the United States-sponsored evacuation of approximately 125,000 Vietnamese refugees in a first wave and hundreds of thousands more during the two-decade long Indochinese refugee crisis, creating what would become the United States’ sixth largest foreign-born group; and WHEREAS, Vietnamese immigrants and their United States-born children comprise one of the largest diaspora populations in the United States, at more than 1,800,000 individuals, and a large proportion of the first generation arrived in the aftermath of the Vietnam War; and WHEREAS, California is home to 35 percent of the Vietnamese American population, which is the largest share in the country; and WHEREAS, California has one of the highest populations of Vietnam veterans in the country, and 5,822 service members from California died or went missing in the conflict; now, therefore, be it Resolved by the Senate of the State of California, the Assembly thereof concurring, That the Legislature hereby commemorates the 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon on April 30, 2025; and be it further Resolved, That the Secretary of the Senate transmit copies of this resolution to the author for appropriate distribution.