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AJR-29 Flight training schools.(2001-2002)

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Assembly Joint Resolution No. 29
CHAPTER 157

Relative to flight training schools.

[ Filed with Secretary of State  October 02, 2001. ]

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AJR 29, Florez. Flight training schools.
This measure would memorialize the Congress of the United States to instruct the Federal Aviation Administration to implement security measures including, but not limited to, identification, fingerprinting, and domestic and international background checks for students and trainees at private or government operated flight training schools.
WHEREAS, The United States was attacked on September 11, 2001, by terrorists who hijacked four commercial airliners and flew three of them into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon to maximize the number of innocent victim deaths; and
WHEREAS, These terrorists took the lives of thousands of innocent individuals; and
WHEREAS, Investigations have revealed that some, if not all, of the hijackers trained at flight training schools in the United States in preparation for their terrorist attacks; and
WHEREAS, There are a number of flight training schools in California that provide training similar to that received by the above-mentioned terrorists; and
WHEREAS, The ability to pilot an aircraft gives the pilot an awesome power over the lives of not only passengers but persons on the ground; and
WHEREAS, Currently, these flight schools are not required to do any background checks, fingerprinting, or other confirmation of identification, allowing literally anyone with sufficient money to enroll in flight training; and
WHEREAS, The events of September 11, 2001, reveal the need for increased security in flight training schools to minimize the possibility of a repeat of the horrendous attacks against buildings and innocent civilians; now, therefore, be it
Resolved by the Assembly and Senate of the State of California, jointly, That the Legislature of California respectfully memorializes the Congress of the United States to instruct the Federal Aviation Administration to implement security measures including, but not limited to, identification, fingerprinting, and domestic and international background checks for students and trainees at private or government operated flight training schools; and be it further
Resolved, That the Chief Clerk of the Assembly transmit copies of this resolution to the President and Vice President of the United States, to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, and to each Senator and Representative from California in the Congress of the United States.