Florida Senate - 2025                            (NP)    SR 1898
       
       
        
       By Senator Jones
       
       
       
       
       
       34-03864-25                                           20251898__
    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, over the past 40 years, NAWBO, through its
   21  affiliation with the World Association of Women Entrepreneurs,
   22  has extended its global reach to 60 countries on five continents
   23  and has expanded across the United States, boasting a chapter in
   24  nearly every major metropolitan area including three chapters in
   25  Florida: South Florida, Orlando, and Greater Tampa Lakeland, and
   26         WHEREAS, NAWBO strongly supports the achievement of state
   27  and federal procurement goals for women-owned small businesses
   28  and other steps designed to ensure that women business owners
   29  win their fair share of state and federal contracts, realizing
   30  that the failure to achieve such goals has cost women business
   31  owners an average of $5 billion in lost revenues per year, and
   32         WHEREAS, NAWBO propels women entrepreneurs into economic,
   33  social, and political spheres of power by strengthening the
   34  wealth-creating capacity of its members and promoting economic
   35  development within the entrepreneurial community; creating
   36  innovative and effective change in the business culture;
   37  building strategic alliances, coalitions, and affiliations; and
   38  transforming public policy and influencing opinion makers, and
   39         WHEREAS, on April 23, 2025, the Florida chapters of NAWBO
   40  will converge upon the Capitol to focus the political spotlight
   41  on issues affecting women business owners and to celebrate the
   42  50th anniversary of NAWBO’s founding, NOW, THEREFORE,
   43  
   44  Be It Resolved by the Senate of the State of Florida:
   45  
   46         That April 23, 2025, is recognized as “National Association
   47  of Women Business Owners Day” in Florida.