BILL ANALYSIS Ó ----------------------------------------------------------------- |SENATE RULES COMMITTEE | SCR 153| |Office of Senate Floor Analyses | | |(916) 651-1520 Fax: (916) | | |327-4478 | | ----------------------------------------------------------------- THIRD READING Bill No: SCR 153 Author: Hueso (D) Introduced:6/14/16 Vote: 21 SUBJECT: Maritime Museum of San Diego: San Salvador replica SOURCE: Author DIGEST: This resolution recognizes and commends the Maritime Museum of San Diego for its continuing dedication to preserving, interpreting, and teaching the rich maritime history of California while upholding a worldwide reputation for excellence with regard to the restoration, maintenance, and operation of historic vessels, particularly the San Salvador replica. ANALYSIS: This resolution makes the following legislative findings: 1)The Maritime Museum of San Diego's mission is to serve as the community memory of our seafaring experience by collecting, preserving, and presenting our rich maritime heritage via a world-class collection of 10 historic vessels, exhibitions, public events, and educational programs. 2)In pursuit of this mission, the Maritime Museum of San Diego sought to build a full-sized, fully functional, and historically accurate replica of the San Salvador to create a living link between California's past and present, that would serve as a community memory of the region's seafaring experience and present its rich and diverse maritime heritage and historic connections to the Pacific world. SCR 153 Page 2 3)The Spanish galleon San Salvador was explorer Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo's flagship vessel, and during his 1542 expeditionary voyage, the San Salvador, in the company of two other ships, landed at what is now the City of San Diego and established first contact with the indigenous peoples of the California coast, and Cabrillo and his crew became the first Europeans to set foot on the Pacific coast of the United States. 4)The San Salvador replica will function as the origin symbol ship for California and commemorate the voyage of the original San Salvador which, through its voyage into the unknown parts of the ocean, provided vital geographic, climatic, and oceanographic information on the Pacific Ocean. 5)The mission of the San Salvador replica is to embody our community origin story by presenting the life and times of Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo, the historic voyage of the San Salvador, our place in the beginnings of the modern world, and first contact between Europeans and Native American peoples of the west coast of North America. This resolution recognizes and commends the Maritime Museum of San Diego for its continuing dedication to preserving, interpreting, and teaching the rich maritime history of California while upholding a worldwide reputation for excellence with regard to the restoration, maintenance, and operation of historic vessels, particularly the San Salvador replica that will soon set sail. FISCAL EFFECT: Appropriation: No Fiscal Com.:NoLocal: No SUPPORT: (Verified6/15/16) None received OPPOSITION: (Verified6/15/16) SCR 153 Page 3 None received Prepared by: Melissa Ward / SFA / (916) 651-1520 6/15/16 17:54:31 **** END ****