Section 10475 Of Article 13. Darfur Contracting Act Of 2008 From California Public Contract Code >> Division 2. >> Part 2. >> Chapter 2. >> Article 13.
10475
. The Legislature hereby finds and declares all of the
following:
(a) On September 21, 2004, in addressing the United Nations
General Assembly, President George W. Bush affirmed the Secretary of
State's finding and stated, "At this hour, the world is witnessing
terrible suffering and horrible crimes in the Darfur region of Sudan,
crimes my government has concluded are genocide."
(b) The federal government has imposed sanctions against the
Government of Sudan since 1997. These sanctions are monitored through
the United States Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets
Control (OFAC).
(c) Since 1993, the United States Secretary of State has
determined Sudan is a country whose government has repeatedly
provided support for acts of international terrorism, thereby
restricting United States assistance, defense exports and sales, and
financial and other transactions with the Government of Sudan.
(d) On December 31, 2007, President George W. Bush signed the
Sudan Accountability and Divestment Act (Public Law 110-174). The
legislation passed the Senate and the House of Representatives
unanimously. That act authorizes state and local governments to adopt
policies to divest from, and prohibit, contracts with problematic
companies operating in Sudan's oil, power, mineral, and military
sectors. That act also prohibits the federal government from
contracting with these companies.
(e) On September 25, 2006, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger stated,
"Divesting will show our defiance of a government that murders" when
signing Assembly Bill 2941 into law enabling the nation's two largest
pension funds to divest from investments in Sudan.