Florida Senate - 2025                            (NP)    SR 1888
       
       
        
       By Senator Jones
       
       
       
       
       
       34-03484-25                                           20251888__
    1                          Senate Resolution                        
    2         A resolution recognizing April 23, 2025, as “National
    3         Association of Women Business Owners Day” in Florida.
    4  
    5         WHEREAS, in 1975, a dozen like-minded businesswomen in the
    6  Washington, D.C., area gathered to share information and create
    7  an atmosphere of professional community and to further and
    8  strengthen their entrepreneurial interests, and
    9         WHEREAS, this group quickly grew to become what is now
   10  known as the National Association of Women Business Owners
   11  (NAWBO), and
   12         WHEREAS, in 1988, NAWBO played a key role in the passage of
   13  the Women’s Business Ownership Act, also known as H.R. 5050,
   14  which allowed women to receive business loans without the
   15  cosignature of a male relative, and
   16         WHEREAS, the federal legislation also created the National
   17  Women’s Business Council, a panel of women entrepreneurs and
   18  women’s organizations which provides counsel to the President
   19  and members of Congress, and
   20         WHEREAS, NAWBO strongly supports the achievement of state
   21  and federal procurement goals for women-owned small businesses
   22  and other steps designed to ensure that women business owners
   23  win their fair share of state and federal contracts, realizing
   24  that the failure to achieve such goals has cost women business
   25  owners an average of $5 billion in lost revenues per year, and
   26         WHEREAS, over the past 50 years, NAWBO, has expanded across
   27  the United States, boasting a chapter in nearly every major
   28  metropolitan area, including 5 chapters in Florida: Miami, Fort
   29  Lauderdale/Broward County, Southwest Florida/Estero, Orlando,
   30  and Lakeland Metro, and
   31         WHEREAS, through its affiliation with the World Association
   32  of Women Entrepreneurs, NAWBO has extended its global reach to
   33  60 countries on 5 continents, and
   34         WHEREAS, NAWBO propels women entrepreneurs into economic,
   35  social, and political spheres of power by strengthening the
   36  wealth-creating capacity of its members and promoting economic
   37  development within the entrepreneurial community; creating
   38  innovative and effective change in the business culture;
   39  building strategic alliances, coalitions, and affiliations; and
   40  transforming public policy and influencing opinion makers, and
   41         WHEREAS, on April 23, 2025, the Florida chapters of NAWBO
   42  will converge upon the Capitol to focus the political spotlight
   43  on issues affecting women business owners and to celebrate the
   44  50th anniversary of NAWBO’s founding, NOW, THEREFORE,
   45  
   46  Be It Resolved by the Senate of the State of Florida:
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   48         That April 23, 2025, is recognized as “National Association
   49  of Women Business Owners Day” in Florida.