Bill Text: FL H0481 | 2010 | Regular Session | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: NASA & John F. Kennedy Space Center Funding

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 33-6)

Status: (Failed) 2010-04-30 - Died in Messages [H0481 Detail]

Download: Florida-2010-H0481-Comm_Sub.html

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CS/HM 481

1	House Memorial
2	A memorial to the Congress of the United States, urging
3	Congress to provide sufficient funding to the National
4	Aeronautics and Space Administration and the John F.
5	Kennedy Space Center to mitigate the severe economic
6	impact that will result in Florida when the nation's human
7	space flight program ceases operations and before the new
8	human space flight program begins.
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10	WHEREAS, the United States' human space flight program is
11	scheduled to cease operations after September 30, 2010, and
12	WHEREAS, the cessation of our nation's human space flight
13	program will result in the loss of employment of thousands of
14	highly trained space flight employees in Florida, and
15	WHEREAS, Florida is home to thousands of suppliers and
16	service providers who will lose employment or vital income upon
17	cessation of the United States' human space flight program, and
18	WHEREAS, the next planned United States' human space flight
19	program is not scheduled to be in operation for at least 5
20	years, and
21	WHEREAS, a gap of 5 years in human space flight programs
22	will result in our nation's loss of highly specialized space-
23	faring skills due to the dispersion of the workforce, and
24	WHEREAS, the United States' human space flight program has
25	greatly contributed to our nation's national defense and many of
26	today's technological advances, NOW, THEREFORE,
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28	Be It Resolved by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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30	That the Congress of the United States is urged to provide
31	sufficient funding to the National Aeronautics and Space
32	Administration and the John F. Kennedy Space Center to mitigate
33	the devastating economic impact to Florida's workforce and
34	economy due to a gap of 5 years in human space flight programs.
35	BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that copies of this memorial be
36	dispatched to the President of the United States, to the
37	President of the United States Senate, to the Speaker of the
38	United States House of Representatives, and to each member of
39	the Florida delegation to the United States Congress.

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