IV 
111TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. RES. 1565 
Expressing support for the designation of the third Thursday of April as 
‘‘Rachel’s Challenge: A Day of Kindness and Compassion’’ in honor 
of the triumph and hope stemming from the life of Rachel Scott and 
in memoriam of the Columbine High School tragedy. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JULY 28, 2010 
Mr. HALL of Texas (for himself and Mr. COFFMAN of Colorado) submitted 
the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Edu-
cation and Labor 
RESOLUTION 
Expressing support for the designation of the third Thursday 
of April as ‘‘Rachel’s Challenge: A Day of Kindness 
and Compassion’’ in honor of the triumph and hope 
stemming from the life of Rachel Scott and in memoriam 
of the Columbine High School tragedy. 
Whereas Rachel Scott was born on August 5, 1981, and 
passed away on April 20, 1999; 
Whereas Rachel Scott was the first victim of the Columbine 
tragedy who through acts of kindness and compassion 
sparked the inspiration for Rachel’s Challenge, a nation-
wide school outreach program for the prevention of teen 
violence that empowers people, recognizes and celebrates 
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doing the right thing, focuses on healthy, happy, well-bal-
anced students, and builds healthy communities; 
Whereas Rachel Scott drew an outline of her hand on the 
back of her dresser and wrote, ‘‘These hands belong to 
Rachel Joy Scott and will someday touch millions of peo-
ple’s hearts’’; 
Whereas Rachel Scott was beloved by her family, friends, fel-
low students, teachers, and administrators for her gen-
erosity, good humor, spirited charm, and the belief that 
kindness and compassion could be contagious and life 
changing; 
Whereas Rachel Scott wrote a challenge to the world through 
an essay she titled, ‘‘My Ethics, My Codes of Life’’ just 
a month before she was killed; 
Whereas in this essay she challenged people by saying, ‘‘I 
have this theory that if one person can go out of their 
way to show compassion, then it will start a chain reac-
tion of the same. People will never know how far a little 
kindness can go’’; 
Whereas Rachel Scott left an example of kindness and com-
passion as one of the most inspirational students in the 
United States by reaching out to students who were 
handicapped, new to school, or picked on or put down by 
others, and her actions are now being replicated by mil-
lions of people; 
Whereas Rachel Scott was posthumously awarded the 2001 
National Kindness Award as Student of the Year by the 
Acts of Kindness Association; 
Whereas Rachel Scott, through her humanitarian work, 
leaves an incomparable legacy serving as an inspiration 
for kindness and compassion and will never be forgotten; 
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Whereas Rachel Scott once said, ‘‘How do you know that 
trust, compassion, and beauty will not make this world 
a better place’’; 
Whereas Rachel Scott through the work of her dad, Darrell 
Scott, and Rachel’s Challenge, was awarded the National 
Education Association of New York Friend of Education 
Award; 
Whereas Rachel’s Challenge has directly impacted over 
13,000,000 people since 1999, prevented hundreds of sui-
cides, documented the prevention of school shootings and 
incidence of violence, and inspired over 1,000 service 
clubs, involving hundreds of thousands of students, that 
have been created in her memory in schools across the 
United States and are impacting innumerable commu-
nities; 
Whereas Rachel’s Challenge extends Rachel Scott’s challenge 
of kindness and compassion to all students through na-
tional and international multimedia campaigns and 
broadcasts; 
Whereas Rachel’s Challenge will cosponsor on May 6, 2010, 
the packaging of over 1,000,000 meals for Haiti in 1 day, 
and each year from this point forward on the third 
Thursday of April the world record for packaging meals 
will be broken again and again; and 
Whereas the third Thursday of April would be an appropriate 
date to designate as ‘‘Rachel’s Challenge: A Day of Kind-
ness and Compassion’’ to bring awareness to kindness, 
compassion, and service to world hunger: Now, therefore, 
be it 
Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 
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(1) supports the designation of ‘‘Rachel’s Chal-
lenge: A Day of Kindness and Compassion’’; 
(2) honors the life and accomplishments of Ra-
chel Scott and her challenge to start a chain reac-
tion of kindness and compassion; 
(3) recognizes Rachel’s Challenge for delivering 
Rachel Scott’s legacy to the world; and 
(4) remembers the victims of the Columbine 
school tragedy, their families and friends, and all the 
people impacted. 
Æ 
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