BILL ANALYSIS Ó HR 37 Page 1 Date of Hearing: February 25, 2016 ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON RULES Gordon, Chair HR 37 (O'Donnell) - As Introduced February 12, 2016 SUBJECT: California Aerospace Days SUMMARY: Proclaims the days of February 29, 2016, and March 1, 2016, as California Aerospace Days. Specifically, 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 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. 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 HR 37 Page 2 engineering centers. 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. FISCAL EFFECT: None REGISTERED SUPPORT / OPPOSITION: Support None on file Opposition None on file Analysis Prepared by:Nicole Willis / RLS. / (916) 319-2800 HR 37 Page 3