Bill Text: CA ACR13 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Enrolled
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Bill Title: California Science and Technology Week.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 59-18)
Status: (Passed) 2023-03-28 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Res. Chapter 18, Statutes of 2023. [ACR13 Detail]
Download: California-2023-ACR13-Enrolled.html
Bill Title: California Science and Technology Week.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 59-18)
Status: (Passed) 2023-03-28 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Res. Chapter 18, Statutes of 2023. [ACR13 Detail]
Download: California-2023-ACR13-Enrolled.html
Enrolled
March 17, 2023 |
Passed
IN
Senate
March 16, 2023 |
Passed
IN
Assembly
February 23, 2023 |
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION
Assembly Concurrent Resolution
No. 13
Introduced by Assembly Member Stephanie Nguyen (Coauthors: Assembly Members Addis, Aguiar-Curry, Alanis, Alvarez, Arambula, Bains, Bauer-Kahan, Bennett, Berman, Boerner Horvath, Bryan, Calderon, Juan Carrillo, Wendy Carrillo, Cervantes, Chen, Connolly, Megan Dahle, Davies, Dixon, Essayli, Flora, Mike Fong, Vince Fong, Friedman, Gabriel, Gallagher, Garcia, Gipson, Grayson, Haney, Hart, Holden, Hoover, Irwin, Jackson, Jones-Sawyer, Kalra, Lackey, Lee, Low, Maienschein, Mathis, McCarty, McKinnor, Muratsuchi, Ortega, Pacheco, Papan, Jim Patterson, Joe Patterson, Petrie-Norris, Quirk-Silva, Ramos, Rendon, Reyes, Luz Rivas, Robert Rivas, Rodriguez, Blanca Rubio, Sanchez, Santiago, Schiavo, Soria, Ta, Ting, Valencia, Villapudua, Waldron, Wallis, Ward, Weber, Wicks, Wilson, Wood, and Zbur) |
February 13, 2023 |
Relative to California Science and Technology Week.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
ACR 13, Stephanie Nguyen.
California Science and Technology Week.
This bill would designate the week of February 13, 2023, to February 17, 2023, inclusive, as California Science and Technology Week.
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WHEREAS, The California Council on Science and Technology is celebrating 35 years of successfully providing scientific and technological expertise to the Legislature since its inception in 1988, established by Assembly Concurrent Resolution No. 162 (Res. Ch. 148, Stats. 1988), when the Legislature foresaw the need for science-informed policy; and
WHEREAS, California is the nation’s preeminent science and technology hub, producing new research and innovations every year; and
WHEREAS, California is home to some of the nation’s most distinguished research and higher education institutions on the state’s behalf, including the University of California system, the California State University system, the California Community Colleges, the California Institute of Technology, Stanford University, the University of Southern California, NASA’s Ames Research Center, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Sandia National Laboratories, and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. The California Council on Science and Technology was created as a unique, independent, nonpartisan organization dedicated to leveraging their expertise; and
WHEREAS, The California Council on Science and Technology is fostering engagement with policymakers, scientific experts from academic and research institutions throughout California and beyond, and philanthropists through workshops, roundtables, reports, and expert briefings with in-state and national collaborators on disaster resilience initiatives; and
WHEREAS, The council continues to uphold its charge of providing scientific expertise to the Legislature by hosting a variety of activities in the capitol designed to promote scientific understanding, bring to the forefront emerging technological innovations, and exchange expertise between California policymakers and the science and technology community; and
WHEREAS, The council is also celebrating 15 years of the Science and Technology Policy Fellows program, in which the organization has deepened its partnership with the Legislature and the executive branch with the expansion of the program and new placements in both the legislative and executive branches; and
WHEREAS, Official recognition of the importance and value of science and technology to California will enhance awareness and support for those activities; now, therefore, be it
Resolved by the Assembly of the State of California, the Senate thereof concurring, That the Legislature hereby designates the week of February 13, 2023, to February 17, 2023, inclusive, as California Science and Technology Week; and be it further
Resolved, That the Chief Clerk of the Assembly transmit copies of this resolution to the author for appropriate distribution.