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THIRD READING
Bill No: SR 60
Author: Fuller (R), Allen (D), Anderson (R), Bates (R), Beall
(D), Berryhill (R), Block (D), Cannella (R), De León
(D), Gaines (R), Galgiani (D), Glazer (D), Hall (D),
Hertzberg (D), Hill (D), Hueso (D), Huff (R), Jackson
(D), Liu (D), Moorlach (R), Morrell (R), Nguyen (R),
Nielsen (R), Pan (D), Roth (D), Runner (R), Stone (R),
and Vidak (R)
Introduced:2/12/16
Vote: Majority
SUBJECT: California Aerospace Days
SOURCE: Author
DIGEST: This resolution recognizes the contributions of the
aerospace industry to the history, economy, security, and
educational system of California, its communities, and its
citizens by proclaiming the days of February 29, 2016, and March
1, 2016, as California Aerospace Days.
ANALYSIS: 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 resulting
in $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.
4)California is also home to three National Aeronautics and
Space Administration (NASA) research and engineering centers,
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.
5)California has led the nation in 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.
6)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.
This resolution recognizes the contributions of the aerospace
industry to the history, economy, security, and educational
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system of California, its communities, and its citizens by
proclaiming the days of February 29, 2016, and March 1, 2016, as
California Aerospace Days.
Prior Legislation
SR 19 (Fuller, 2015) proclaimed the week of March 23, 2015,
through March 27, 2015, as California Aerospace Week. The
resolution was adopted by the Senate.
FISCAL EFFECT: Appropriation: No Fiscal
Com.:NoLocal: No
SUPPORT: (Verified2/22/16)
None received
OPPOSITION: (Verified2/22/16)
None received
Prepared by: Karen Chow / SFA / (916) 651-1520
2/24/16 16:04:25
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