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          Date of Hearing:   March 23, 2009

                        ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION
                                   Mike Eng, Chair
                 ACR 30 (Mendoza) - As Introduced:  February 23, 2009
           
          SUBJECT  :  State Route 91

           SUMMARY  :  Designates a segment of State Route (SR) 91 as the Los  
          Angeles County Deputy Sheriff David Powell Memorial Highway.   
          Specifically,  this bill  :  

          1)Recounts the life and career of David Powell, a Deputy Sheriff  
            with the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department.  

          2)Designates the segment of SR 91 between SR 605 and Pioneer  
            Boulevard as the Los Angeles County Deputy Sheriff David  
            Powell Memorial Highway.  

          3)Requests the Department of Transportation (Caltrans) to  
            determine the cost of appropriate signs, consistent with the  
            signing requirements for the state highway system, showing the  
            special designation and, upon receiving donations from  
            nonstate sources covering that cost, to erect those signs.  

           EXISTING LAW  :  Assigns Caltrans the responsibility of operating  
          and maintaining state highways.  This responsibility includes  
          the installation and maintenance of highway signs.  

           FISCAL EFFECT  :  Unknown


           COMMENTS  :  Deputy David Powell of the Los Angeles County  
          Sheriff's Department served 19 years as a law enforcement  
          officer.  A resident of Torrance and a graduate of Loyola  
          Marymount University, Deputy Powell stated the reason he became  
          a law enforcement officer was to make a positive difference in  
          other people's lives, and as a deputy sheriff, he was praised by  
          his peers, supervisors, and by members of the community for his  
          tireless efforts to guide young people away from drugs and  
          gangs.  


          Deputy Powell was awarded the Medal of Valor by the City of  
          Lakewood for saving the life of an individual attempting suicide  








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          in the year 2000.  In 2002, he tried desperately to remove  
          critically injured passengers from a burning vehicle and was  
          honored for his heroic actions with a second Medal of Valor.  


          Sadly, David Powell was killed in the line of duty on November  
          30, 2002, in the City of Artesia while conducting an  
          investigation.  


           REGISTERED SUPPORT / OPPOSITION  :   

           Support 
           
          Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department (sponsor)
          American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees  
          (AFSCME)

           Opposition 
           
          None received
           
          Analysis Prepared by  :   Howard Posner / TRANS. / (916) 319-2093