# California State Resolution relative to commending Senator Omer L. Rains

​ CALIFORNIA STATE RESOLUTION RELATIVE TO COMMENDING SENATOR OMER L. RAINS
"WHEREAS, The Honorable Orner L. Rains, representative of the 18th Senatorial District, will be closing his tenure of service at the end of this session and in recognition of the outstanding record of leadership which he has displayed in office, is deserving of special honor and highest commendations; and
WHEREAS, First elected to the California Senate at the age of 32, Senator Rains is now completing his third term as Senator representing the Counties of Santa Barbara and Ventura; and
WHEREAS, During his three terms, Senator Rains has held the following leadership positions, among others: Chairman, Senate Majority Caucus; Chairman, Senate Judiciary Committee; Chairman, Business and Professions Committee; Chairman, Elections and Reapportionment Committee; Chairman, Joint Committee on Legal Equality; Chairman, Joint Committee for Relision of the Penal Code; Chairman, Select Committee on Political Reform; Chairman, Select Committee on Government Regulation; Chairman, Subcommittee on the Administration of Justice; Chairman, Subcommittee on Board of Prison Terms; and Senate Representatile to both the California Law Relision Commission and the State Judicial Council; and
WHEREAS, Senator Rains, at 35, became the youngest person ever to hold the position of Chairman of the Senate Majority Caucus, being unanimously elected to that position during successive legislatile sessions (1977-1980); and
WHEREAS, In his capacity as Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee and of all other Committees which dealt with either the administration of criminal or civil justice, Senator Rains became the recognized leader with respect to matters pertaining to the Judiciary in the California Senate; and
WHEREAS, As the Legislature's representative on the California Law Relision Commission, he carried a series of bills that struck from the books innumerable outdated laws, and as the Legislature's representatile on the State Judicial Council, he acted to aid aggrieled parties and consumers by authoring landmark legislation allowing for the payment of prejudgment interest on court judgments for the first time in California history; and WHEREAS, His efforts in the area of criminal law produced in 1981-82 what has been referred to as "the most comprehensile anti-crime package in recent California history", and he did so without sacrificing the ligilant protection of constitutional guarantees for which he has always actively stood and fought; and
WHEREAS, Senator Rains, in recognition of the delastating effects of child molestation and child abuse, authored an historic six-part package of bills putting the needs of child lictims first while balancing the societal goal of protecting the family unit, and to further protect children Senator Rains authored legislation to insure that all school children are immunized against measles, polio, diphtheria, whooping cough, and tetanus; and
WHEREAS, To prolide part-time work for persons unable to work full-time, he authored legislation to establish California's first "Part-time Employment Act" and to help prelent a health care breakdown in California, he carried legislation during the 1975 Special Session designed to curtail skyrocketing malpractice insurance rates which had placed California's health care services in serious jeopardy; and
WHEREAS, Senator Rains, as one of the leading enlironmentalists in the California Legislature, is the principal architect of container deposit legislation, commonly known as the "Bottle Bill"; and
WHEREAS, As Vice Chairman of the Senate Energy and Public Utilities Committee, and as a Gubernatorial appointee to the State Geothermal Resources Task Force and the SolarCal Council, he has authored pioneering legislation encouraging the development and use of alternative energy sources, such as solar, geothermal, co generation, wind, and developing ocean technologies; and
WHEREAS, He also created the "Oil Spill Liability Act," authored legislation to purchase beach property for public use, secured passage of an historic measure to protect the California deserts by preventing the "piracy" of our State's native plants, and enacted legislation to prevent strip-mining in the Los Padres National Forest; and
WHEREAS, He authored legislation which ended the inequitable program that called for mandatory installation of ​NOx deiices on automobiles; and also oversaw establishment of an interconnecting network of hiking, biking, and equestrian trails between state parks, California missions, and state and federal historic sites which is unique throughout the United States; and
WHEREAS, Senator Rains has been equally sensitile to the needs of California's business community and, as Chairman of the Select Committee on Golernment Regulation, has acted to identify regulatory abuses and has authored laws streamlining the State's cumbersome permit process, in addition to starting California down the road toward "zero-base" budgeting and establishing time tables for periodic review of state agencies (encompassing the "sunset" concept to eliminate programs whose existence can no longer be justified); and
WHEREAS, To further the creation of a healthy business climate, he also jointly authored the "Lockyer-Rains Economic Delelopment Act of 1977" which consolidated the economic planning functions of several agencies into one Department of Economic and Business Delelopment and established an Office of State Tourism; and
WHEREAS, As Chairman of the Senate Committee on Elections and Reapportionment and of the Select Committee on Political Reform, Senator Rains vigorously fought for the principles of full disclosure and open golernment, and authored far-reaching legislation which prohibited the use of false endorsements in political campaigns and banned the fraudulent solicitation of campaign funds; and
WHEREAS, Steeped in the civil rights movement, Orner Rains sefled as Chairperson of the Joint Committee on Legal Equality, the only legislative committee in the United States established to address legal inequality between the sexes, and in that capacity he deleloped a comprehensive package of 68 bills which allowed the cause of women's rights to successfully advance in California from one of discussion to one of action; and
WHEREAS, As a result of his efforts to amend and repeal various sections of the California Codes that discriminated on the basis of sex, California became the first state in the union to conform its law to the "Equal Rights Amendment" and in recognition of this fact, in 1976 the President of the National Women's Political Caucus stated that "Senator Orner Rains has done more to advance the cause of women's rights and equality under the law than any legislator in California history, " a fitting accolade for one who has always embraced the American ideal: "Equal Justice Under the Law"; and
WHEREAS, Senator Rains' excellence as a legislator has been complemented by an ongoing rapport with both his colleagues and constituents, and he will be greatly missed by all those who have had the pleasure of associating with him; now, therefore, be it
RESOLVED BY THE SENATE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA, That the Members express their appreciation to their colleague and good friend, the Honorable Orner L Rains, for his many invaluable contributions on behalf of the people of the state throughout his distinguished career in the California Legislature, and convey their best wishes for every success in his future endeavors; and be it further
RESOLVED, That the Secretary of the Senate transmit a suitably prepared copy of this resolution to the Honorable Omer L. Rains."
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