SR 46 - Senate St. Commission on Promoting Aerospace Dev., Etc. - create

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A resolution creating the Senate Study Commission on Promoting Aerospace development, Commercial Space Activities, and Telecommunications Technology to improve Georgia's economic base.

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SR 46                                              LC 19 3236 
 
 
 
 
 
 
                             A RESOLUTION 
 
  1- 1  Creating the Senate Study Commission on Promoting Aerospace 
  1- 2  development, Commercial Space Activities, and 
  1- 3  Telecommunications Technology to improve Georgia's economic 
  1- 4  base; and for other purposes. 
 
  1- 5  WHEREAS, by the 21st Century, the nature of the global 
  1- 6  market for space based goods and services will have 
  1- 7  radically changed from that of the last two decades; and 
 
  1- 8  WHEREAS, global communications providing video, voice, tax, 
  1- 9  and data services will generate a multibillion dollar market 
  1-10  that has only begun to emerge; and 
 
  1-11  WHEREAS, telecommunications satellites in geostationary 
  1-12  orbit (GEO) and constellations of satellites in low earth 
  1-13  orbit (LEO) will provide universal access, a unique and 
  1-14  critical capability of the Clinton Administration's proposed 
  1-15  Global Information Infrastructure (GII); and 
 
  1-16  WHEREAS, Vice President Gore has called for a GII founded on 
  1-17  the basic principles that underlie our national agenda: 
  1-18  private investment, promotion and protection of competition, 
  1-19  flexible regulation, open access, and universal services; 
  1-20  and 
 
  1-21  WHEREAS, other emerging space applications promise to 
  1-22  improve America's, and Georgia's, standard of living not 
  1-23  only by creating jobs, but also by providing information and 
  1-24  products that make life more productive and convenient; and 
 
  1-25  WHEREAS, commercial remote sensing will revolutionize 
  1-26  agriculture, mineral exploration, urban planning, map 
  1-27  making, and distribution of educational programs; and 
 
  1-28  WHEREAS, the addition of exact locational information 
  1-29  provided by commercial Global Positioning System (GPS) data 
  1-30  receivers will greatly increase the ease and accuracy of 
  1-31  surveying, natural disaster relief, fleet tracking and 
  1-32  monitoring, vehicle navigation, and utility service; and 
 
  1-33  WHEREAS,  advances in space based telecommunications, remote 
  1-34  sensing, global positioning, and space based manufacturing 
  1-35  will require low-cost, reliable access to space in order to 
 
 
 
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  2- 1  reach their full potential for economic growth and job 
  2- 2  creation; and 
 
  2- 3  WHEREAS,  while the U.S. is currently the world leader in 
  2- 4  satellite production, low-cost foreign access to space, sold 
  2- 5  in packages that bundle launch services with foreign 
  2- 6  satellite buses, threatens U.S. preeminence in satellite 
  2- 7  production; and 
 
  2- 8  WHEREAS, the state governments of Alaska, California, 
  2- 9  Flordia, New Mexico, and Virginia have an operational 
  2-10  involvement in space launches and related activities and 
  2-11  have a common interest in the development of U.S. space 
  2-12  activities, and they have created spaceports by legislative 
  2-13  action within those respective states; and 
 
  2-14  WHEREAS, these spaceports will bring to the national space 
  2-15  program the same investment and operational infrastructure 
  2-16  that state agencies have provided for other transportation 
  2-17  modes, such as airports, seaports, and commercial road 
  2-18  transportation. 
 
  2-19  NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE SENATE that there is 
  2-20  created the Joint Study Commission on Promoting Aerospace 
  2-21  development, Commercial Space Activities, and 
  2-22  Telecommunications Technology to improve Georgia's economic 
  2-23  base to be composed of four members of the Senate to be 
  2-24  appointed by the President of the Senate.  The President of 
  2-25  the Senate shall designate a member of the Senate who shall 
  2-26  serve as chairperson of the commission.  The commission 
  2-27  shall meet at the call of the chairperson. 
 
  2-28  BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the commission shall undertake a 
  2-29  study to investigate the feasibility of the emerging 
  2-30  aerospace and telecommunications market niches supporting 
  2-31  major economic sectors of the State of Georgia with the 
  2-32  intent to provide the foundation to enable the state to 
  2-33  vigorously pursue its long-term interest involving 
  2-34  commercial space launch operations and corresponding 
  2-35  infrastructure (spaceports).  The commission may conduct 
  2-36  such meetings at such places and at such times as may deem 
  2-37  necessary or convenient to enable it to exercise fully and 
  2-38  effectively its powers, perform its duties, and accomplish 
  2-39  the objectives and purposes of this resolution.  The members 
  2-40  of the commission shall receive the allowances authorized 
  2-41  for legislative members of interim legislative committees 
  2-42  but shall receive the same for not more than ten days unless 
  2-43  additional days are authorized.  The funds necessary to 
 
 
 
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  3- 1  carry out the provisions of this resolution shall come from 
  3- 2  the funds appropriated to the Senate.  In the event the 
  3- 3  commission makes a report of its findings and 
  3- 4  recommendations, with suggestions for proposed legislation, 
  3- 5  if any, such reports shall be made on or before December 1, 
  3- 6  1997.  The commission shall stand abolished on December 1, 
  3- 7  1997. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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