BILL ANALYSIS Ó
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ASSEMBLY THIRD READING
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43 (O'Donnell)
As Amended March 17, 2015
Majority vote
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|Committee |Votes |Ayes |Noes |
|----------------+------+--------------------+--------------------|
|Rules |11-0 |Gordon, Chang, | |
| | |Burke, Campos, | |
| | |Cooley, Dodd, | |
| | |Jones, Mayes, | |
| | |Rodriguez, Waldron, | |
| | |Wood | |
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SUMMARY: Proclaims the week of March 23, through March 27, 2015,
as California Aerospace Week 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 203,000 people in California and supporting more than
511,000 jobs in related fields for an estimated $2.9 billion in
annual state income tax revenues.
2)The California aerospace industry leads the United States in
aerospace and defense services, including the design and
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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 is home to many superb sites of air and space
activity, including Vandenberg Air Force Base, two Federal
Aviation Administration-licensed launch sites, the Mojave Air
and Spaceport, more than 20 astronomical observatories, multiple
international airports, many important defense aerospace bases,
and hundreds of business and general aviation airfields.
California is also home to three National Aeronautics and Space
Administration (NASA) research and engineering centers. These
centers are the Ames Research Center, the NASA Neil A. Armstrong
Flight Research Center, formerly known as the Dryden Flight
Research Center, and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
4)California has led the nation in aeronautical firsts and
California's aerospace industry has produced many of the
significant and record-breaking aircraft that are now
represented in The Smithsonian Institution's National Air and
Space Museum.
5)California will continue to lead in aerospace education, through
its superb Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics
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
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Analysis Prepared by:
Nicole Willis / RLS. / (916) 319-2800 FN: 0000066