BILL ANALYSIS Ó
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SENATE THIRD READING
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As Amended March 19, 2013
Majority vote
SENATE VOTE :32-0
RULES 11-0
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|Ayes:|Skinner, Wilk, Bigelow, |
| |Brown, Chau, Donnelly, |
| |Hagman, Nazarian, V. |
| |Manuel Pérez, Quirk, |
| |Weber |
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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
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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
world with the innovation 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
Analysis Prepared by : Nicole Willis / RLS. / (916) 319-2800
FN: 0000048