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THIRD READING
Bill No: SCR 100
Author: Knight (R)
Amended: As introduced
Vote: 21
SUBJECT : California Aerospace Week
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 week of March 24, 2014, through
March 28, 2014, as California Aerospace Week.
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 162,000 people in California and
supporting more than 640,000 jobs in related fields for a
total payroll estimated at $15.3 billion annually and
resulting in $500 million in annual state income taxes.
2.The California aerospace industry leads the United States in
aerospace and defense services, including the design and
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.
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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.
6.The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA),
in conjunction with NASA, is sponsoring a month of events to
highlight the contributions of the aerospace community to
California, including panel discussions, educational displays,
tours, and the "AIAA Policy Symposium: Civilian Applications
of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles - A California Perspective,"
during March 2014.
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 week of March 24, 2014, through March 28, 2014,
as California Aerospace Week.
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FISCAL EFFECT : Fiscal Com.: No
SUPPORT : (Verified 3/21/14)
Boeing
AL:nl 3/21/14 Senate Floor Analyses
SUPPORT/OPPOSITION: SEE ABOVE
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