SENATE STATE GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE

STATEMENT TO

ASSEMBLY JOINT RESOLUTION No. 97

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

DATED: MAY 7, 2009

      The Senate State Government Committee reports favorably Assembly Joint Resolution, No. 97.

      This joint resolution designates the month of October of every year as Italian-American Heritage Month.  Joint Resolution No. 3 of 1996, which designated the week ending on October 12 of every year as Italian-American History and Heritage Week, is repealed.