HR 148 — A Resolution designating February 14, 2025, as "Parkland School Shooting Victims Remembrance Day" in Pennsylvania.

PRINTER'S NO.   1159

                     THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA



              HOUSE RESOLUTION
                 No. 148
                                                 Session of
                                                   2025

     INTRODUCED BY CEPEDA-FREYTIZ, BOROWSKI, SCHLOSSBERG, VENKAT,
        CERRATO, FREEMAN, HILL-EVANS, GIRAL, HOHENSTEIN, WAXMAN,
        MALAGARI, SANCHEZ, MADDEN, HANBIDGE, RIVERA AND PUGH,
        MARCH 26, 2025

     REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON VETERANS AFFAIRS AND EMERGENCY
        PREPAREDNESS, MARCH 26, 2025


                                  A RESOLUTION
 1   Designating February 14, 2025, as "Parkland School Shooting
 2      Victims Remembrance Day" in Pennsylvania.
 3         WHEREAS, On February 14, 2018, 17 innocent lives were lost in
 4   a massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland,
 5   Florida; and
 6         WHEREAS, Pennsylvania and the United States will always
 7   remember the lives tragically lost in assaults on our schools;
 8   and
 9         WHEREAS, This Commonwealth will never forget the heroes who
10   risk and sacrifice their lives to protect the students,
11   teachers, faculty and families of the communities in our great
12   Commonwealth, and throughout our great nation, and who
13   courageously safeguard the lives of their students; and
14         WHEREAS, This Commonwealth will never forget the first
15   responders and law enforcement officers who respond to the call
16   every day to protect the innocent and who continue to respond
 1   each and every day; and
 2      WHEREAS, This Commonwealth has made many efforts in recent
 3   decades to prevent and respond to potential acts of violence in
 4   our schools through the creation of the Safe2Say Something
 5   program, the transfer of millions of dollars in State
 6   investments to support school safety and mental health and the
 7   establishment of the Office for Safe Schools within the
 8   Department of Education, among other measures; and
 9      WHEREAS, February 14, 2025, marks seven years since the
10   horrific attack on Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School;
11   therefore be it
12      RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives designate
13   February 14, 2025, as "Parkland School Shooting Victims
14   Remembrance Day" in Pennsylvania; and be it further
15      RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives honor the
16   memories of the victims of the attack at Marjory Stoneman
17   Douglas High School on February 14, 2018, and offer heartfelt
18   condolences and deepest sympathies to all families, loved ones
19   and friends of victims affected by this and all other senseless
20   acts of violence in our nation's schools; and be it further
21      RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives remain dedicated
22   to preventing such atrocities from reoccurring through increased
23   school safety measures and student mental health initiatives.




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