Pennsylvania HR 560: A Resolution recognizing the month of November 2024 as "Native American Heritage Month" in Pennsylvania.

Bill Text

PRINTER'S NO. 3571
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE RESOLUTION
No. 560
Session of
2026
INTRODUCED BY PICKETT, BURGOS, GREINER, HAMM, KAUFFMAN, NEILSON,
STAMBAUGH AND ROWE, JUNE 8, 2026
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON COMMUNICATIONS AND TECHNOLOGY,
JUNE 9, 2026
A RESOLUTION
Recognizing the week of June 22 through 28, 2026, as "Amateur
Radio Week" in Pennsylvania.
WHEREAS, Amateur radio operators, or "hams," are celebrating
more than a century of the miracle of the human voice broadcast
over the airwaves; and
WHEREAS, Amateur radio has continued to provide a bridge
between peoples, societies and countries by creating friendships
and the sharing of ideas; and
WHEREAS, There are 23,473 licensed amateur radio operators
living in this Commonwealth; and
WHEREAS, The Commonwealth recognizes that these same radio
operators have demonstrated their value in public assistance by
providing free radio communications for local parades, bike-a-
thons, walk-a-thons, fairs and other charitable public events;
and
WHEREAS, The Commonwealth recognizes the more than 1,500
members of the Amateur Radio Emergency Services and Radio
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Amateur Civil Emergency Services programs who serve this
Commonwealth, county and local emergency response organizations;
and
WHEREAS, The Commonwealth recognizes and appreciates the
diligence of the "hams" who also serve as weather spotters in
the SKYWARN program of the National Weather Service; and
WHEREAS, All of these amateur radio services are provided
wholly uncompensated; and
WHEREAS, The Amateur Radio Relay League (ARRL) is the body
that organizes the annual exercise called "Amateur Radio Field
Day"; and
WHEREAS, The ARRL "Amateur Radio Field Day" exercise will
take place June 27 through 28, 2026, and is a 24-hour emergency
preparedness exercise and demonstration of the radio amateurs'
skills and readiness to provide self-supporting communications
without further infrastructure being required; therefore be it
RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives recognize the
week of June 22 through 28, 2026, as "Amateur Radio Week" in
Pennsylvania.
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