February 12, 2025 - Introduced by Senators Smith, L. Johnson, Carpenter, Pfaff, Ratcliff, Roys, Spreitzer, Wirch, Hesselbein and Larson, cosponsored by Representatives Emerson, Phelps, Moore Omokunde, Andraca, Arney, Bare, Brown, Clancy, Doyle, Fitzgerald, Goodwin, Hong, Hysell, J. Jacobson, Joers, Johnson, Kirsch, Madison, Mayadev, Miresse, Ortiz-Velez, Palmeri, Prado, Rivera-Wagner, Roe, Sheehan, Sinicki, Snodgrass, Stubbs, Subeck, Tenorio, Udell, Vining and Taylor. Referred to Committee on Senate Organization.
SJR8,1,1
1Relating to: proclaiming February 4, 2025, as Transit Equity Day. SJR8,1,42Whereas, Rosa Parks was an iconic figure in the movements for social justice 3and racial equality and played a major role in the inception of the Civil Rights 4Movement that ended legal segregation in the United States; and SJR8,1,65Whereas, the immediate focus of Rosa Parks’s historic protest was the 6unequal access of African Americans to public transit; and SJR8,1,87Whereas, unequal access to public transit based on race, income, and 8disability has persisted to this day; and SJR8,1,139Whereas, paratransit is a necessary component for any public transit system 10to ensure accessibility for people with disabilities who require it, and any expansion 11of public transit necessitates further strengthening of paratransit so that it is 12minimally held to the same reliability and timelines standards as other parts of the 13system; and SJR8,2,514Whereas, the required expansion of public transit to address the climate crisis
1provides an unprecedented opportunity to continue the tradition of Rosa Parks and 2the Civil Rights Movement by ensuring that transit systems are affordable and 3accessible and that people of color, economically disadvantaged people, people with 4disabilities, and other marginalized populations have full access to the benefits of 5public transit; and SJR8,2,96Whereas, the expansion of public transit provides an unprecedented 7opportunity to create a large number of good, environmentally sustainable, high-8skill, family-supporting transit operation jobs, as well as construction jobs for 9building new transit facilities; and SJR8,2,1210Whereas, increased community access to public transit reduces racial, 11economic, and other disparities while building mobile equity within the community; 12now, therefore, be it SJR8,2,1413Resolved by the senate, the assembly concurring, That the day of 14February 4, 2025, shall be designated as Transit Equity Day in Wisconsin.
