[MRM]

Hey, even a blind squirel finds a nut sometimes.

To understand the resoultion you need to know a little bit about legislative drafting. The "Whereas" part of a bill are the justification for the billl. It does not have any legal effect.

The idea is to give some insight into the legislative intent, or at least a historical records of what the legislature was thinking. Or, more commonly, it's just an advertisement for the law they want to pass. "Whereas, global warming is the hugest threat known to mankind, we hereby ban all brown cows from expelling flatus".

To understand the bill you really ignore all the whereases and look to the part that has legal effect. That is what is the law.