SJR115 Summary

• Expresses support for creating a dedicated North American Industrial Classification System (NAICS) code for the modeling and simulation industry.

• Recognizes modeling and simulation as a National Critical Technology and an Alabama Critical Technology that contributes to military support, healthcare improvements, disaster preparedness, infrastructure security, and environmental protection.

• Acknowledges that modeling and simulation provides high-paying jobs to Alabamians and supports the state's leading industries while improving the tax base and GDP.

• Urges the Alabama Secretary of Commerce to contact the U.S. Department of Commerce to demonstrate Alabama's support for establishing a separate NAICS code designation for modeling and simulation.

• Calls for maintaining science, technology, engineering, and mathematics as key education disciplines and for studying the national economic impact of modeling and simulation.