HR 48 — A Resolution recognizing the week of May 11 through 17, 2025, as "National Police Week" and recognizing May 15, 2025, as "Peace Officers Memorial Day" in Pennsylvania.

PRINTER'S NO.   413

                  THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA



           HOUSE RESOLUTION
              No. 48
                                              Session of
                                                2025

     INTRODUCED BY HARKINS, MERSKI, FREEMAN, DELLOSO, VITALI, HILL-
        EVANS, BURGOS, HADDOCK, COOK, GIRAL, SCHMITT, VENKAT, CEPEDA-
        FREYTIZ, BRENNAN, INGLIS, CERRATO, KAZEEM, CIRESI, SANCHEZ,
        DONAHUE, CONKLIN, D. WILLIAMS, NEILSON, REICHARD, MENTZER,
        STEELE, DEASY, O'MARA, GREEN, GILLEN, MALAGARI, BOROWSKI,
        DOUGHERTY, PASHINSKI, PARKER AND BURNS, JANUARY 31, 2025

     REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY, JANUARY 31, 2025


                               A RESOLUTION
 1   Recognizing the week of May 11 through 17, 2025, as "National
 2      Police Week" and recognizing May 15, 2025, as "Peace Officers
 3      Memorial Day" in Pennsylvania.
 4      WHEREAS, Across the United States, the week of May 11 through
 5   17, 2025, is being recognized as "National Police Week"; and
 6      WHEREAS, On October 1, 1962, the Congress of the United
 7   States approved a joint resolution authorizing the President to
 8   designate May 15 of each year as "Peace Officers Memorial Day"
 9   and the calendar week in which that date occurs as "Police
10   Week"; and
11      WHEREAS, By proclamation dated May 4, 1963, President John F.
12   Kennedy designated May 15, 1963, and each succeeding May 15 as
13   "Peace Officers Memorial Day" and the week of May 12 through May
14   18, 1963, and each succeeding calendar week during which May 15
15   occurs as "Police Week"; and
16      WHEREAS, The first annual National Peace Officers' Memorial
 1   Service was held on May 15, 1982; and
 2      WHEREAS, A candlelight vigil continues to be observed
 3   annually at the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial in
 4   Washington, DC, in memory of police officers who have made the
 5   ultimate sacrifice in the line of duty; and
 6      WHEREAS, The House of Representatives joins in remembering
 7   the service and sacrifice of those police officers throughout
 8   our nation who have died in the line of duty; and
 9      WHEREAS, The House of Representatives honors the memory of
10   the hundreds of police officers who have given their lives in
11   the line of duty in this Commonwealth; therefore be it
12      RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives recognize the
13   week of May 11 through 17, 2025, as "National Police Week" and
14   recognize May 15, 2025, as "Peace Officers Memorial Day" in
15   Pennsylvania.




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