California Legislature—2015–16 Regular Session

Assembly Concurrent Resolution No. 153

Introduced by Assembly Member Burke

March 9, 2016

Assembly Concurrent Resolution No. 153—Relative to the California Council on Science and Technology.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST

ACR 153, as introduced, Burke. California Council on Science and Technology.

This measure would request the California Council on Science and Technology to establish an executive fellowship program to embed scientists within California’s leading clean technologies.

Fiscal committee: no.

WHEREAS, California’s output of goods and services ranks it
as the eighth greatest economic power in the world; and

WHEREAS, California’s preeminence in science and technology
was the basis for the development of the aerospace,
microelectronics, and other advanced technologies in this state;
and

WHEREAS, California state policies to adopt clean technology
and reduce greenhouse gas emissions were the basis for the
development of wind, solar, geothermal, bioenergy, energy storage,
and other clean technologies in this state; and

WHEREAS, California owes its preeminence to its excellent
educational system, including the University of California and
California State University systems, its superb independent
universities and colleges, and its extensive community college
system, which provides highly trained manpower for California’s
clean technology industries; and

WHEREAS, Such research provides education and training to
California’s students and an opportunity for faculty to break new
ground solving energy and climate change problems; and

WHEREAS, The University of California, together with others
in the state’s academic community, maintains preeminent faculties
of capable and world-renowned scientists, engineers, and
technological experts; and

WHEREAS, California is fortunate to have a group of major
research universities, the University of California, the University
of Southern California, the California Institute of Technology, and
Stanford University, each acknowledged to be world-class
institutions; and

WHEREAS, In 1988, through Assembly Concurrent Resolution
162, the Legislature requested the President of the University of
California, in collaboration with the presidents of other
California-based universities, to establish the California Council
on Science and Technology (CCST) to ensure the state’s
competitiveness in science and technology; and

WHEREAS, The CCST was directed to bring together experts
from academia, industry, and other research institutions in
California to provide impartial analyses on science and
technological issues affecting the State of California; and

WHEREAS, These scientists and engineers have responded to
requests for analyses on significant and challenging science and
technology related issues in California, ranging from education to
climate change and exploring California’s energy future; now,
therefore, be it

Resolved by the Assembly of the State of California, the Senate
thereof concurring, That the Legislature requests, within one year
of the effective date of this resolution, the California Council on
Science and Technology to establish an executive fellowship
program to embed scientists from diverse backgrounds directly
within California’s leading clean technology industries; and be it
further

Resolved, That the Chief Clerk of the Assembly transmit copies
of this resolution to the Governor, the President of the University
of California, and the Regents of the University of California.