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          Date of Hearing:   March 21, 2013

                             ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON RULES
                                Nancy Skinner, Chair
                    SCR 16 (Knight) - As Amended:  March 19, 2013

           SENATE VOTE :   32-0
           
          SUBJECT  :   California Aerospace Month.

           SUMMARY  :   Proclaims March 2013 as California Aerospace Month  
          and recognizes the contributions of the aerospace industry to  
          the history, economy, security, and educational system of  
          California.  Specifically,  this resolution  makes the following  
          legislative findings:

          1)The California aerospace industry is a powerful, reliable  
            source of employment, innovation, and export income, directly  
            employing more than 162,000 people in California and  
            supporting more than 640,000 jobs in related fields for a  
            total payroll estimated at $15.3 billion annually and  
            resulting in $500 million in annual state income taxes.

          2)The California aerospace industry leads the United States in  
            aerospace and defense services, including the design and  
            manufacture of aircraft, spacecraft, and commercial  
            satellites, as well as a myriad of systems and instruments for  
            search, detection, navigation, guidance, and radio and  
            television broadcast and wireless communication systems.

          3)California has led the nation in many aeronautical firsts and  
            California's aerospace industry produced many of the  
            significant and record-breaking aircraft that are now  
            represented in The Smithsonian Institution's National Air and  
            Space Museum; and, California has led the nation in firsts in  
            human space exploration, including the manufacture of Apollo  
            11 and the Space Shuttle orbiters. California also led the  
            nation in firsts in robotic space exploration, including the  
            Explorer 1 Earth observation satellite, the Mariner 2, the  
            Viking landers, and the development of Pioneer 10 spacecraft.

          4)California will continue to lead in aerospace education,  
            through its superb Science, Technology, Engineering and  
            Mathematics (STEM) education programs and at its world-class  
            research universities, and thus will continue to lead the  








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            world with the innovations that enabled advanced  
            meteorological forecasting, the Global Positioning System,  
            NextGen tools for air traffic management, green aviation,  
            sophisticated wind tunnels and test facilities, and advanced  
            supercomputing and robotics.

           FISCAL EFFECT  :   None

           REGISTERED SUPPORT / OPPOSITION  :

           Support 
           
          None on file.
           
            Opposition 
           
          None on file.

           Analysis Prepared by  :    Nicole Willis / RLS. / (916) 319-2800