BILL ANALYSIS Ó
ACR 15
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Date of Hearing: May 2, 2011
ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION
Bonnie Lowenthal, Chair
ACR 15 (Conway) - As Amended: February 23, 2011
SUBJECT : State Route 198
SUMMARY : Designates a segment of State Route (SR) 198 as the
Detective Monty L. Conley and Detective Joe R. Landin Memorial
Highway. Specifically, this bill :
1)Recounts the lives and careers of Monty Conley and Joe Landin,
detectives with Tulare County Sheriff's Department who lost
their lives in the line of duty.
2)Designates the portion of SR 198 between Road 204 and SR 216,
in the County of Tulare, as the Detective Monty L. Conley and
Detective Joe R. Landin 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
this special designation and, upon receiving donations from
nonstate sources sufficient to cover that cost, to erect those
signs.
EXISTING LAW : Assigns Caltrans the responsibility to operate
and maintain state highways. This includes the installation and
maintenance of highway signs.
FISCAL EFFECT : Unknown
COMMENTS : Monty Conley, at the age of 19, became the City of
Woodlake's youngest police officer. He subsequently joined the
Tulare County Sheriff's Department, where he worked in the jail
and patrol divisions and later as a detective in the narcotics
units. Detective Conley was a dedicated officer who served his
community and loved his profession.
Joe Landin joined the United States Marine Corps after high
school and served in Vietnam. He became a Woodlake Police
Officer and later joined the Tulare County Sheriff's Department.
Detective Landin worked in the jail and patrol divisions. As a
detective, he was assigned to the Sheriff's Tactical Enforcement
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Patrol and the narcotics unit. Detective Landin was a dedicated
officer who served his community and loved his profession.
On August 5, 1985, Detectives Conley and Landin were
investigating a narcotics case near the town of Pixley,
California, in southern Tulare County. While the two were
traveling in Detective Conley's vehicle, they collided with
another motorist who ran a stop sign at over 85 miles per hour.
Both detectives lost their lives as a result of this tragic
incident. The other motorist was tried and convicted of
vehicular manslaughter with gross negligence and served a prison
term of five years and four months.
Legislative history : This bill is a reintroduction of the
author's ACR 176 from 2010. ACR 176 passed this committee as
well as the Assembly floor with unanimous votes but died in the
Senate Rules Committee after being received by the Senate fairly
late in the session.
REGISTERED SUPPORT / OPPOSITION :
Support
None on file
Opposition
None on file
Analysis Prepared by : Howard Posner / TRANS. / (916) 319-2093