Bill Text: CA ACR52 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Chaptered
Bill Title: High technology.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 49-29)
Status: (Passed) 2009-06-25 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Res. Chapter 56, Statutes of 2009. [ACR52 Detail]
Download: California-2009-ACR52-Chaptered.html
BILL NUMBER: ACR 52 CHAPTERED
BILL TEXT
RESOLUTION CHAPTER 56
FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE JUNE 25, 2009
ADOPTED IN SENATE JUNE 22, 2009
ADOPTED IN ASSEMBLY MAY 11, 2009
AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY MAY 11, 2009
INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Solorio
(Principal coauthor: Assembly Member Ruskin)
(Coauthors: Assembly Members Arambula, Beall, Block, Blumenfield,
Buchanan, Caballero, Fong, Galgiani, Hill, Jeffries, Krekorian, Lieu,
Ma, V. Manuel Perez, Torlakson, Torrico, Adams, Anderson, Bass, Bill
Berryhill, Tom Berryhill, Blakeslee, Brownley, Charles Calderon,
Carter, Chesbro, Conway, Cook, Coto, Davis, De La Torre, De Leon,
DeVore, Duvall, Emmerson, Eng, Evans, Feuer, Fletcher, Fuentes,
Fuller, Furutani, Gaines, Garrick, Gilmore, Hagman, Hall, Harkey,
Hayashi, Hernandez, Huber, Huffman, Jones, Logue, Bonnie Lowenthal,
Mendoza, Miller, Monning, Nava, Nestande, Niello, Portantino, Price,
Salas, Saldana, Silva, Skinner, Smyth, Audra Strickland, Swanson,
Torres, Tran, and Villines)
(Coauthors: Senators DeSaulnier, Harman, and Maldonado)
MARCH 17, 2009
Relative to high technology.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
ACR 52, Solorio. High technology.
This measure would recognize California as the leading high
technology center in the United States and would declare that it
shall remain the leading high technology center in the United States.
The measure would also declare the 2nd week of May, annually, as
California High Technology Week.
WHEREAS, According to the United States Bureau of Labor
Statistics, California is America's leading high technology state in
terms of the quality and quantity of high technology jobs, companies,
payroll, and wages; and
WHEREAS, California is the top ranked high technology employer in
the United States with 940,700 technology workers in 2006, more than
twice as many technology workers as second ranked Texas, and more
than three times as many as third ranked New York; and
WHEREAS, In 2006, California led the nation with the highest paid
technology workers, earning an average annual wage of $101,200; and
WHEREAS, High technology workers in California have earned average
wages of more than twice the wages of non-high technology workers in
the private sector in California; and
WHEREAS, California led the nation with a total high technology
payroll of $95.2 billion accounting for 20.8 percent of the nation's
total technology payroll in 2006; and
WHEREAS, California has the highest employment in the field of
semiconductor manufacturing of all the states in the United States
according to the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics' 2006 data;
and
WHEREAS, California had the most high technology exports of any
state, $48.2 billion in 2007; and
WHEREAS, In 2007, California led the nation in exports in six of
the eight high technology sectors: computers and peripheral
equipment, consumer electronics, semi-conductors, electromedical
equipment, industrial electronics, and photonics; and
WHEREAS, California's high technology export market supports an
estimated 180,000 jobs and a number of local economies; and
WHEREAS, California was the leading state in total research and
development expenditures with $60.5 billion in expenditures in 2004,
the most recent year that data are available from the United States
National Science Foundation and the United States Bureau of the
Census; and
WHEREAS, In 2006, California ranked first nationwide in computer
systems design and related services employment with 185,100 jobs; and
WHEREAS, In 2006, California ranked first among all states in
employment in a number of technology industry manufacturing sectors.
These sectors include computer and peripheral equipment
manufacturing, communications equipment manufacturing, consumer
electronic manufacturing, electronic components manufacturing,
semiconductor manufacturing, defense electronic manufacturing,
measuring and control instruments manufacturing, and electromedical
equipment manufacturing; and
WHEREAS, The nation's greatest high technology industry
concentration is in San Jose/Silicon Valley with 386,200 workers,
translating into more than one in four private sector workers being
employed by the high technology industry; and
WHEREAS, Southern California collectively has greatly contributed
to California's leading position in the high technology industry with
the Counties of Orange, San Diego, Riverside, San Bernardino, and
Los Angeles playing leading roles; and
WHEREAS, Computer systems design and related services comprised
the largest technology sector in Orange County, employing 16,900
people; and
WHEREAS, Orange County ranked second in employment in the nation's
defense electronics manufacturing sector with 9,400 jobs; and
WHEREAS, San Diego County ranked second in the nation's consumer
electronics manufacturing employment with 3,200 jobs; and
WHEREAS, Los Angeles County ranked first in the nation in defense
electronics manufacturing employment with 28,600 jobs; and
WHEREAS, The Inland Empire ranked first in percentage of high
technology jobs growth among all cybercities in the nation during
2006 with 29 percent growth; and
WHEREAS, The policies of the State of California should promote
and protect those industries that bring prosperity for its citizens;
and
WHEREAS, The economic health of the great State of California is
predicated on the fortunes of its industries; and
WHEREAS, All the citizens of California benefit from the proven
immense, positive economic impact of the high technology industry;
now, therefore, be it
Resolved by the Assembly of the State of California, the Senate
thereof concurring, That the Legislature recognizes California as the
leading high technology center in the United States and declares
that it shall remain the leading high technology center in the United
States; and be it further
Resolved, That the Legislature declares the second week of May,
annually, as California High 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.
