HomeMy WebLinkAbout2022-034 - Bill Ending Child Marriage in CaliforniaRESOLUTION 2022-034
A RESOLUTION OF THE SANTA ANA CITY COUNCIL
CALLING UPON OUR STATE LEGISLATORS INTRODUCE
AND PASS A BILL ENDING CHILD MARRIAGE IN
CALIFORNIA
WHEREAS, California is one of nine states that has no minimum age for child
marriage when all exemptions are taken into account; and
WHEREAS, current California law requires the parents and partners of minors
wishing to marry to meet with court officials separately, to determine if there is any
coercion and wait 30 days to get married, unless they are 17 and have completed high
school, or one of the partners is pregnant; and
WHEREAS, recent efforts to change California law with Senate Bill No. 273 and
Assembly Bill No. 1286 failed; and
WHEREAS, existing law requires local registrar of marriages to submit personal
information regarding certificates to the State Registrar, at least annually, but authorizes
the local registrar to dispose of information like number of certificates, age of each party,
and gender of each party after only two years; and
WHEREAS, child marriage has negative physical, economic, social, and mental
impacts on children, especially girls; and
WHEREAS, teen girls who marry tend to have more children earlier, more closely
spaced, more likely to have their first child before the age of 18, and 40 percent more
likely to have a second within two years of their first; and
WHEREAS, young women and girls aged 16 to 19 face intimate partner violence
victimization rates at almost three times the national level; and
WHEREAS, women who marry before the age of 18 are more likely to report
stressful life events, present significantly more psychiatric disorders such as mood and
anxiety disorders, including major depression and antisocial personality disorder.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of Santa
Ana, that:
Section 1. The City of Santa Ana calls upon our State legislators to introduce
and pass a bill that would end child marriage in California.
Section 2. This Resolution shall take effect immediately upon its adoption by
the City Council, and the Clerk of Council shall attest to and certify the vote adopting this
Resolution
Resolution No. 2022-0034
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ADOPTED this 31d day of May, 2022.
Vicente Sarmiento
Mayor
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
Sonia Carvalho, City Attorney
Laura A. Rossini
Chief Assistant City Attorney
AYES: Councilmembers Hernandez Lopez Mendoza Penaloza,
Phan Bacerra (6)
NOES: Councilmembers None (0)
ABSTAIN: Councilmembers None (0)
NOT PRESENT: Councilmembers Sarmiento (1)
CERTIFICATE OF ATTESTATION AND ORIGINALITY
I, DAISY GOMEZ, Clerk of the Council, do hereby attest to and certify the attached
Resolution No. 2022-034 to be the original resolution adopted by the City Council of the
City of Santa Ana on May 3, 2022.
Date:
Daisy Gomez —�
Clerk of the Council
City of Santa Ana
Resolution No. 2022-034
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