BILL NUMBER: AJR 2	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JANUARY 15, 2002

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Havice

                        FEBRUARY 1, 2001

   Assembly Joint Resolution No. 2--Relative to the defense industry.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AJR 2, as amended, Havice.  Defense industry.
   This measure would memorialize the President and the Congress of
the United States, the Energy Secretary, and the Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission  to order interstate power generators
to supply this state with the adequate flow of electricity necessary
to sustain national security and the military preparedness of the
defense industry.  The measure would further memorialize Congress
 to act through legislation to designate the various
contractors now engaged in vital defense work for this nation as
"operating in the national interest."
   Fiscal committee:  no.




   WHEREAS, California is host to a vast array of manufacturing and
support industries essential to America's military preparedness and
national security, not the least of which are plants engaged in the
planning and production of the C-17 Globemaster airlift plane, the
Delta II Rocket, the F-18 fighter, and other aerospace products; and
   WHEREAS, The  current   recent 
electrical supply crisis  has  negatively impacted
the state's vast military industrial contractors and has resulted in
temporary shutdowns and slowdowns of production lines due to the
price and availability of electricity; and
   WHEREAS,  Plant   In the event that a future
energy crisis occurs, plant  shutdowns and slowdowns due to
energy policies threaten the viability of our state's military
industrial  complex, precisely at a time when California must
gear up to meet the demands of the incoming administration's renewed
focus on defense projects, including a missile defense and the joint
strike fighter; and  complex; and
   WHEREAS, The security of our nation places constant demands of
readiness upon California's utility industries; and 
   WHEREAS, Energy regulators are empowered to issue rules that
delineate who is exempted from involuntary electric service outages
and interruptions; and
   WHEREAS, Those actions may bypass the Congress of the United
States' role in explicitly protecting sectors of the economy from
electric service interruptions through the designation of a given
sector as being essential to the national interest; and
   WHEREAS, It is appropriate that the Congress of the United States
act through legislation to designate the various contractors now
engaged in  vital defense   advanced military
hardware technology  work for this nation as "operating in the
national interest," thereby protecting these businesses from the
 threat of electric service interruption or from higher rates
as a consequence of noninterruption, owing to the current energy
crisis in California; now, therefore, be it
   Resolved by the Assembly and Senate of the State of California,
jointly, That the Legislature respectfully memorializes the President
and the Congress of the United States, the Energy Secretary, and the
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to order interstate power
generators to supply this state with the adequate flow of electricity
necessary to sustain national security and the military preparedness
of the defense industry; and be it further   threat of
electric service interruption, owing to the lessons of the past and
the possibility of future energy disruptions; now, therefore, be it

   Resolved, That the Legislature respectfully memorializes the
Congress of the United States to act through legislation to designate
the various contractors now engaged in vital defense work for this
nation as "operating in the national interest"; and be it further
   Resolved, That the Chief Clerk of the Assembly transmit copies of
this resolution to the President and Vice President of the United
States, to each Senator and Representative from California in the
Congress of the United States, and to the Secretaries of Defense,
State, Energy, and Commerce, as well as to the members of the State
Public Utilities Commission, the members of the California Energy
Resources Conservation and Development Commission, and the members of
the governing board of the Independent System Operator.