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          Date of Hearing:   August 22, 2013

                             ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON RULES
                              Richard S. Gordon, Chair
                 SCR 46 (Hill/Knight) - As Introduced:  May 22, 2013

           SENATE VOTE  :   34-0
           
          SUBJECT  :   National Academy of Sciences sesquicentennial  
          anniversary celebration.

           SUMMARY  :   Honors the sesquicentennial of the National Academy  
          of Sciences.  Specifically,  this resolution  makes the following  
          legislative findings:

          1)The year 2013 commemorates the sesquicentennial of the year in  
            which President Abraham Lincoln singed an act incorporating  
            the National Academy of Sciences to advise the federal  
            government on "any subject of science or art".

          2)As science and technology began to play increasingly important  
            roles in national priorities and public life, the National  
            Academy of Sciences expanded to include the National Research  
            Council in 1916, which was created by President Woodrow Wilson  
            to ensure unbiased and credible advice on matters of science,  
            technology, and medicine.

          3)The National Academy of Engineering and the Institute of  
            Medicine were founded in 1964 and 1970, respectively, under  
            the same congressional charter as the National Academy of  
            Sciences to perform similar advisory roles; and currently the  
            total membership of these three institutions consists of 6,000  
            of the most distinguished individuals elected by their peers.

          4)These private, nonprofit institutions enlist the aid of the  
            nation's most knowledgeable scientists, engineers, health  
            professionals, and other experts who volunteer their time to  
            provide authoritative, independent advice on many of the  
            pressing challenges that face the nation and the world.

          5)The National Academy of Sciences continues to provide sound  
            scientific, technological, and health policy advice; and  
            California has benefited by having more members of the  
            National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering,  
            and the Institute of Medicine working in this state than any  








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            other in our nation.

           FISCAL EFFECT  :   None

           REGISTERED SUPPORT / OPPOSITION  :

           Support 
           
          None on file
           
            Opposition 
           
          None on file

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