Bill Text: CA AJR52 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Military base realignment and closure: County of

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 42-18)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2014-08-29 - In Senate. To Com. on RLS. [AJR52 Detail]

Download: California-2013-AJR52-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: AJR 52	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  AUGUST 28, 2014

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Members Linder and Nestande
   (Coauthors: Assembly Members Medina  and Melendez
  , Melendez,   Achadjian,   Alejo,
  Allen,   Atkins,   Ammiano,  
Bigelow,   Bloom,   Bocanegra,   Bonilla,
  Bradford,   Brown,   Buchanan, 
Ian Calderon,   Campos,   Chau,  
Chávez,   Conway,   Cooley,   Dababneh,
  Dahle,   Daly,   Eggman,  
Fong,   Fox,   Frazier,   Beth Gaines,
  Garcia,   Gatto,   Gonzalez,  
Grove,   Hagman,   Harkey,   Roger
Hernández,   Holden,   Jones-Sawyer,  
Levine,   Logue,   Lowenthal,  
Maienschein,   Mansoor,   Muratsuchi,  
Olsen,   Patterson,   Perea,   John A.
Pérez,   V. Manuel Pérez,   Quirk,  
Rendon,   Ridley-Thomas,   Salas,  
Waldron,   Weber,   Wieckowski,   Wilk,
  and Yamada  )
   (Coauthor: Senator Roth)

                        AUGUST 7, 2014

   Relative to military base realignment and closure.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AJR 52, as amended, Linder. Military base realignment and closure:
County of Riverside.
   This measure would declare that the Legislature joins the County
of Riverside in opposing base realignment and closure affecting the
Naval Surface Warfare Center, Corona Division, and March Air Reserve
Base.
   Fiscal committee: no.



   WHEREAS, The United States Navy's Naval Surface Warfare Center,
Corona Division, and March Air Reserve Base are located in the County
of Riverside; and
   WHEREAS, The Naval Surface Warfare Center, Corona Division, and
March Air Reserve Base are major employers in the southern California
region and major contributors to the region's economy; and
   WHEREAS, Both military installations generate an annual payroll
approaching $1 billion for local workers in the civilian and military
workforces; and
   WHEREAS, The United States Department of Defense contracts with
900 small business owners located in the County of Riverside and its
28 cities, representing $5 billion of economic activity and thousands
of direct and indirect jobs in the region; and
   WHEREAS, The United States Secretary of Defense has repeatedly
recommended that the United States Congress authorize the closing of
military bases domestically and abroad; and
   WHEREAS, The United States Secretary of Defense has specifically
requested that another Base Realignment and Closure Commission be
authorized in the near future to close military bases across the
nation and around the globe; and
   WHEREAS, The Naval Surface Warfare Center, Corona Division, and
March Air Reserve Base are assets to the United States Armed Forces
and both installations provide unique missions in support of national
security and disaster response that make these bases ideal to serve
as national models for military and defense missions; and
   WHEREAS, Both installations have been reviewed by prior Base
Realignment and Closure Commissions, which resulted in March Air
Force Base being realigned to a reserve installation and adverse
impacts to the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Corona Division; and
   WHEREAS, Base realignment and closure adversely impacts the
economies of the County of Riverside and its 28 cities, and the
region has not fully recovered from the jobs lost as a result of
previous base realignment and closure; and
   WHEREAS, The reuse of lands outside the cantonment area of March
Air Reserve Base has not progressed for a variety of reasons related
to the Great Recession and a lack of capital available for financing;
and
   WHEREAS, Representatives in the United States Senate and House of
Representatives oppose further cuts, reductions, and realignments to
the missions and resources of these two installations; and
   WHEREAS, The Office of Military and Defense Services of the County
of Riverside opposes base realignment and closure affecting the
Naval Surface Warfare Center, Corona Division, and March Air Reserve
Base; now, therefore, be it
   Resolved by the Assembly and the Senate of the State of
California, jointly, That the Legislature joins the County of
Riverside in opposing another round of base realignment and closure
affecting the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Corona Division, and
March Air Reserve Base; and be it further
   Resolved, That the Chief Clerk of the Assembly transmit copies of
this resolution to the author for appropriate distribution.