1986

The 1986 greeting was created in the wake of the overwhelming passage of California Proposition 63, which provided that English is the official language of the state of California; requires the legislature to enforce this provision by appropriate legislation; charges the legislature with preserving and enhancing the role of English as the common language of the state; requires that no law may be passed that ignores or diminishes this role; and provides for any resident or person doing business in the state to sue the state to enforce these provisions.

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This provision remains in California's constitution but, fortunately, the legislature has never enforced it.