PRINTER'S NO. 2111
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE RESOLUTION
No.
235
Session of
2023
INTRODUCED BY FLOOD, M. MACKENZIE, SCHLOSSBERG, PICKETT,
KAUFFMAN, KHAN, ROWE, E. NELSON, RADER, R. MACKENZIE, MAKO,
KAZEEM, NEILSON, FREEMAN, DELOZIER AND McNEILL,
OCTOBER 4, 2023
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT, OCTOBER 4, 2023
A RESOLUTION
Designating the week of November 12 through 18, 2023, as
"Kindness Week" in Pennsylvania.
WHEREAS, Since 1988, "World Kindness Day" has been celebrated
across the globe on November 13; and
WHEREAS, The World Kindness Movement established this day to
promote kindness worldwide, to demonstrate the positive impacts
of large and small acts of kindness and to encourage harmony
among people; and
WHEREAS, Random acts of kindness to strangers, including
paying-it-forward at drive throughs or letting a car go in front
of you to merge into traffic, are simple ways that can be
meaningful to individuals; and
WHEREAS, Science has shown that kindness can be contagious;
and
WHEREAS, When bystanders witness acts of kindness they are
more likely to perform their own acts of kindness; and
WHEREAS, When individuals start making an effort to do small
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