Pennsylvania SR 201: A Resolution designating the day before Thanksgiving, the Sunday after Christmas and New Year's Day, at 6 p.m., as a time to ring bells throughout this Commonwealth for five minutes as a sign of thanks, praise and unity.

Bill Text

PRINTER'S NO. 1336
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
SENATE RESOLUTION
No. 201
Session of
2025
INTRODUCED BY STEFANO, DECEMBER 4, 2025
REFERRED TO RULES AND EXECUTIVE NOMINATIONS, DECEMBER 4, 2025
A RESOLUTION
Designating the day before Thanksgiving, the Sunday after
Christmas and New Year's Day, at 6 p.m., as a time to ring
bells throughout this Commonwealth for five minutes as a sign
of thanks, praise and unity.
WHEREAS, Bells have carried a message for hundreds of years,
whether as a warning of disaster, in sorrow and tragedy or as an
act of celebratory ringing; and
WHEREAS, Bells ring to gather people together both physically
and emotionally; and
WHEREAS, Ringing bells may lighten the hearts and give hope
to Pennsylvanians in all walks of life; and
WHEREAS, A choir of bells ringing in unison may bring people
together in a common attempt to overcome adversity; therefore be
it
RESOLVED, That the Senate designate the day before
Thanksgiving, the Sunday after Christmas and New Year's Day, at
6 p.m., as a time to ring bells throughout this Commonwealth for
five minutes as a sign of thanks, praise and unity.
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